Analytics for Design
Analytics for Design
COID 332 | Online, In-Person | 2nd 7 Weeks | 3 credits
Welcome to Analytics for Design taught by Jennie Myers. Develop an understanding of how to gather user needs, create journey maps, conduct user testing, turn data into insights, and produce user experiences that deliver results. By using industry standard enterprise research and analytics tools, students will begin to understand how to collect data, visualize it, and most importantly, how to understand and apply it. Students will complete the course with 6 projects and 1 professional portfolio to showcase their hard work.
Course Calendar
| Week | Lessons | Projects |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lesson 1: Introduction Learn how we can use data to inform human-centered design solutions, how data tells a story that moves, how you can make an impact toward some of the world’s most important causes, and more! | Project 1: Worthy Cause Pick a worthy cause to focus on for the duration of the course, identify the stakeholders, begin your initial research and start formulating a solution. |
| 2 | Lesson 2: Understanding Audiences Learn how to conduct primary research in the form of ethnographic interviews. Interview real humans with first-hand experience with your chosen cause. | Project 2: Interviewing for Stories Interview individuals with first-hand experience with your worthy cause and using their perspective, refine your solution design. |
| 3 | Lesson 3: Probing Problems Learn to think about our audience’s problems with nuance by categorizing, mapping, comparing and prioritizing problems to determine which justifies time and investment of our analysis. | Project 3: Research Plan Create a research plan, design a survey, gather feedback on your design and formulate a survey distribution plan. |
| 4 | Lesson 4: Testing Problems Learn quantitative data collection methods by launching a survey, promoting survey participation and collecting results. | Project 4: Survey Distribution Distribute your survey, gather responses and reflect on the effectiveness of your methods. |
| 5 | Lesson 5: Story in the Numbers Learn how to analyze your results using analytical software, how to identify the stories that lie within our data, how to create data visualizations and how to package those stories into messages that will resonate with our desired audience. | Project 5: Survey Analysis Analyze the data gathered from your survey responses using pivot tables and learn how to turn that refined data into easy to understand data visualizations. Nail down your final solution design. |
| 6 | Lesson 6: Communicating the Story Learn how to condense, organize and effectively communicate your methods, findings and recommendations into a final blog post. | Project 6: Telling the Story Now that you’ve completed your research and used data to help inform an awesome solution to a worthy cause, pull everything together and share what you’ve discovered through a comprehensive blog post. |
| 7 | Lesson 7: Portfolio & Wrap Up Learn tips and tricks for creating an effective and professional portfolio and how to present it, build a network and market yourself to potential employers. | Project 7: Portfolio Design Want to impress potential employers or provide a case for a promotion? Build a professional portfolio to showcase your new creative skills. |