Research Design Courses and Certifications

Career Certificate

User Experience Research and Design

2316 ratings at Coursera

Take a product from concept to prototype: run user research, ideate and refine designs, test with users, and scale research through surveys, analytics, and online testing.

• Coursera
• 8 weeks, 10 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course
• 6 courses

Master Digital Product Design: UX Research & UI Design

12175 ratings at Udemy

A complete design education for product designers: Research the user experience, then design a great user interface

• Udemy
• 15 hours 31 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Complexity Explorer

Asking Good Research Questions in Humanities Analytics

Learn to distinguish strong humanities research questions from bad ones and refine them through a Cambridge School example.

• YouTube
• 32 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

User Research and Design

472 ratings at Coursera

Practice user research techniques including in-person studies, surveys, and log analysis, then turn findings into personas, use cases, and scenarios that feed ideation.

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

NIH Clinical Center

Study Design Part 2 - Statistical Considerations in Preparing Your Research Protocol - Lecture 3

Explore statistical considerations for study design, including sample size, power analysis, and data analysis planning for clinical and translational research.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 7 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

NPTEL-NOC IITM

Causal Research Design: Experiments and Confounding Variables

Explore causal research design, experiments, and confounding variables in this concise educational resource from NPTEL-NOC IITM.

• YouTube
• 35 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

NPTEL-NOC IITM

Causal Research Design: Experiments and Related Terminologies

Explore validity in experiments, types of experimental designs, and experimental notations in causal research design.

• YouTube
• 28 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Coursera

UX Design: Research, Prototyping, Accessible Interactions

31 ratings at Coursera

Learn user interface design principles, prototyping workflows, and best practices for creating visually appealing, intuitive, and accessible interfaces built around user needs.

• Coursera
• 1 hour 42 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Fractal Analytics

Generative AI in User Research and Design Thinking

24 ratings at Coursera

Apply generative AI across user research: plan discovery, support interviews and surveys, and synthesize data through affinity mapping, user journeys, and ChatGPT-generated insights.

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

Coursera

Market Research: Design Impactful Surveys

Learn to choose between primary and secondary market research and draft unbiased customer interest questions, then build and deploy the survey in Google Forms.

• Coursera
• 2 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Coursera

AI-Powered Market Research and Survey Design

Run end-to-end primary research: draft discussion guides, build branching surveys with skip logic and conjoint studies, size samples, apply GDPR consent, and analyze results with chi-square tests.

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

Packt

Strategic Content Design: UX Research & Tools

Plan and run content research: audit content with heuristics and scorecards, design unbiased survey questions, apply five-second tests and SUS, then present findings to stakeholders.

• Coursera
• 12 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Qualitative Research Design

A practical guide to qualitative research design, from choosing methodologies and interviews to analyzing findings and evaluating validity.

• YouTube
• 12 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Career Certificate

Epidemiology for Public Health

1273 ratings at Coursera

Learn to measure disease frequency, compare common epidemiological study designs, and detect and control bias and confounding when designing or critiquing research.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 10 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course
• 3 courses

Research Proposal: Initiating Research

950 ratings at Coursera

Learn to plan market research: assess secondary and internal data, choose primary methods like sampling and surveys, and write and package a client research proposal.

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