From the end of may to mid july 2018 I studied in a course called Introduction to User Experience (UX501x) on the elearning platform edx.org (nowadays it is avaiblable on coursera). It is a course produced by the University of Michigan and its elearning initiative MichiganX. 

At the end of the course I was provided with a certificate of achievement certifying that I received a passing grade.

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Week 1: What is UX? What Is UX Research and Design?
Week 2: UX Design Overview
Week 3: How Do People Perceive Information?
Week 4: How Do People Act in the World?
Week 5: Design Heuristics
Week 6: Heuristic Evaluation and Course Wrap-up

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There are two reasons that pushed me to take this course, firstly I wanted to expand my own knowledge of psychology and secondly I thought that it would be beneficial to know a bit about the job of potential colleagues. The word UX was everywhere but I did not understand why it generated so much noise until I took this course and read a few books, notably Don Norman's The design of everyday things and Celia Hodent's The Gamer's Brain. The course detailed the history of the field, why it emerged, why it matters. It provided a solid basis of knowledge on cognitive psychology, it described in details the different specializations within the field itself, the methods used and their challenges. 

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