Human Centered Design Courses

Integrative Design for Superefficient Buildings - Part 1

Discover integrative design principles for creating superefficient buildings that achieve extreme energy savings through whole-systems optimization rather than isolated improvements.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 21 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Algorithms: Design and Analysis, Part 2

Welcome to the self paced course, Algorithms: Design and Analysis, Part 2! Algorithms are the heart of computer science, and the subject has countless practical applications as well as intellectual de

• edX
• 6 weeks, 2-4 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Time Before Birth: A Look at Developing Human Brain

A machine-learning model uses public and Stanford datasets to study brain development before birth, with an application study and cross-center validation.

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

Stanford Optic Disc Drusen: Human Measurements and Biomarkers of Optic Neuropathies

Explore optic disc drusen, including their causes of vision loss, biomarkers, associated conditions, and treatment trial design.

• Independent
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Computational Design of Compliant, Dynamical Robots - Cynthia Sung

Explore computational methods for designing compliant robots, using topology optimization, geometry-tuned mechanics, origami structures, and iterative actuation design for dynamic tasks.

• YouTube
• 56 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Stanford Seminar - Developing Design Spaces for Visualization - Tamara Munzner

Learn how to construct and evaluate visualization design spaces that organize design choices and support systematic reasoning about possible solutions.

• YouTube
• 57 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Stanford Seminar - What Comes After Design Thinking?

A three-part design leadership framework—empathy, abstraction, and problem reframing—for systemic, holistic, and ethical approaches to complex societal challenges.

• YouTube
• 38 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Stanford Seminar - Human-AI Interaction Under Societal Disagreement

Jury Learning lets practitioners choose whose perspectives an AI model represents when groups disagree about the right labels.

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

Applications of Generative Design for Fabrication in Healthcare Settings

Clinical experts help shape fabrication tools, from automated knitting design to generative systems for healthcare and accessibility.

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

Stanford Seminar - TechFail: From Intersectional Inaccessibility to Inclusive Design

Using gaming as a lens on technology, this talk traces intersectional barriers to access and explores how inclusive design can broaden participation.

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

Humanizing Robot Design - Aaron Edsinger of Hello Robot

A human-centered approach to collaborative robots, from safe actuation and assistive mobile manipulators to Stretch control by a person with quadriplegia.

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

Stanford Seminar - Get in Touch: Tactile Perception for Human-Robot Systems

Explores how tactile sensing lets robots interpret touch during grasping and manipulation, from sensor designs to perception of direction and object interaction.

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

Leveraging Human Input to Enable Robust AI Systems

Explores how human input can help AI systems handle uncertainty about intent and produce safer, more robust behavior.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 1 minute
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Considerations for Human-Robot Collaboration

Explores how robots can become effective teammates by understanding task context and participant roles in human-robot collaboration.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 3 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Towards Robust Human-Robot Interaction - A Quality Diversity Approach

Uses quality-diversity algorithms to generate varied simulated human-robot interaction scenarios and uncover failure cases.

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