Human-Centered Design Courses and Certifications

Human-Centered Design: an Introduction

6 ratings

Design technologies that bring people joy rather than frustration: do needfinding fieldwork, build paper and Wizard of Oz prototypes, and run heuristic evaluations.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 4 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Human-Centered Design for Work at a Distance: Toolbox Essentials

5 ratings

Learn and apply human-centered design tools to transform your work with others at a distance.

• edX
• 4 weeks, 3-4 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Human-Centered Design for Inclusive Innovation

175 ratings at Coursera

Work through the human-centered design process in a mini-bootcamp: build empathy with users, reframe the problem, then ideate, prototype and test inclusive solutions.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Understanding the Value of Human-Centered Design

16 ratings at Coursera

Practice human-centered design: gather and interpret data on human needs, facilitate ideation with psychological safety, map stakeholders, and craft narratives that coordinate action.

• Coursera
• 5 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Human-Centered Design for Work at a Distance: Prototype Solutions

3 ratings

Draw from human-centered design tools learned in Human-Centered Design for Work at a Distance: Toolbox Essentials to identify and solve real-world case studies for individuals reinventing their work a

• edX
• 4 weeks, 3-4 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Intro to the Design of Everyday Things

11 ratings

Everyone designs: apply affordances, signifiers, conceptual models, and the gulfs of evaluation and execution to sketch and user-test an interface for a Timebank.

• Udacity
• 2 weeks
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Career Certificate

Human-Centered Design for Work at a Distance

Seize opportunities in a changing work environment. Use human-centered design tools to prototype ideas and solve problems for yourself and others.

• edX
• 8 weeks, 3-4 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• $286.00
• 2 courses

This is an intensive, hands-on learning experience that will challenge you to get out of your chair and out into the real world to talk to people and test your idea

• Acumen Academy
• 9 weeks, 4 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Human-centered design is a process that starts with the people you're designing for and ends with new solutions that are tailor-made to suit their needs.

• Acumen Academy
• 5 weeks, 4 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Introduction to Human-Centered Design

Work through the four phases of human-centered design — inspiration, ideation, prototyping, implementation — testing ideas in the field to reach solutions tailored to the people you serve.

• Acumen Academy
• 7 weeks
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Human-Centered Design 201: Prototyping

Build quick, low-cost prototypes to bring ideas to life, plan and run field tests, and gather feedback to refine solutions with the people you're designing for.

• Acumen Academy
• 4 weeks
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Learn design research methods: spot workarounds and misuses, observe potential users in their context, conduct qualitative interviews, and infer meaning from your findings.

• openHPI
• 5 weeks
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

This course introduces you to helpful skills for advancing from user research to idea generation.

• openHPI
• 4 weeks
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Make an idea tangible: identify its critical function, build low-fidelity prototypes, plan a testing scenario with users, and structure feedback to filter aspects for iteration.

• openHPI
• 4 weeks
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Career Certificate

Human-Centered Design

Design IT solutions around people: collect and analyze user data, build empathy, and develop and test solutions that maximize the user's total experience.

• edX
• 12 weeks, 5-7 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• $448.00
• 2 courses