Conclusion

It was an intense course. Especially the practical assignment and the peer-assessment took quite some effort, but it was rewarding to go through all the steps required to create good human-computer interaction, get feedback, and apply the theory from the lectures to a concrete use case. In this sense it created a lot of insight in what it takes to design good user interfaces.

The course also showed that human-computer interaction is no black magic or something which needs excessive amounts of artistic skills, or inspiration from nowhere. It's really just a part of the engineering process, and if the right methods are applied with care and thinking the results will be good.

I enjoyed the course, learned some new and interesting things, and also got a half-working application for planning my travel. It would be fun to add the other half as well, but that's something,I'll leave for a a different time... at least for now.

Oh, and I also got a certificate: