User Experience & Interaction Design for AR/VR/MR/XR

The University of Michigan develops an XR design process from ethical questions and guidelines into storyboards and prototypes. Physical exploration precedes digital and immersive authoring, with evaluation connecting the design idea to implementation requirements. It suits learners who want to reason about an experience before committing to a particular headset, interface convention or technical build.

What you will learn

• Critique XR experiences and their ethical implications.
• Develop storyboards and physical or digital prototypes.
• Infer implementation requirements from an evaluated design.

Who this suits

Coursera lists an intermediate level. Prior UX or interactive-product experience will help you make sense of the tradeoffs, while the published project outline clarifies the authoring work involved.

Before you enroll

XR covers several different device and context combinations. Check the tools used by the exercises and avoid treating one prototype as evidence that the same interaction will work across every platform.

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Put it into practice

Storyboard an XR task, build a low-cost physical prototype and identify one uncertain interaction. Test that uncertainty before choosing a digital tool, then document the requirements the observation reveals.

Source and review

This overview is based on the provider's published information, checked on 14 October 2026. It is an editorial assessment, not a claim that we completed the resource. Time filters are approximate study ranges; projects and exercises can take longer.

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