UX Design Foundations
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User experience (UX) design is often misunderstood as simply interface design, but is actually composed of many moving parts beyond the visual aspect—a good user experience also considers how the user feels.
Whether you’re exploring a new career or looking to better understand the role of UX Designers on your team, the User Experience Foundations course is the perfect primer to learn more about the user experience design process. This UX class will blend lectures, discussions, industry examples, and classroom activities. You’ll leave the class with a broad understanding of how UX Designers work with other team members, fundamentals of the industry, and how designers move from research insights to design concepts.
Curriculum
What you'll learn
- What user experience design is
- How UX Designers work
- The overall UX design process
- UX research methods: user interviews, observations, heuristics, etc.
- UXD terminology and deliverables: personas, journey maps, scenarios, etc.
- Sketching and the iterative design process
- How to document and present your work
Course syllabus
What is UX Design?
- UX Design vs. UI Design
- UX Design Principles
Disciplines in UX Design
Common UX Design Tools
What is UX Research?
- Iterative Design Process
- Research Methods
Product Requirements & Problem Definition
- User Needs vs. Business Needs
- Business Constraints
- What is an MVP?
What are UX Deliverables/Artifacts?
- Market Research
- Competitive Analysis
- Analytics
- Stakeholder Interviews
- User Interviews
- Surveys
Product Requirements
- What do users need to accomplish and what features support these goals?
- How do time, budget, and resources affect what we are building?
Information Architecture + Navigation
Organizing Content
- Sitemap
- Taxonomy
- Content Inventory
- User Flows
Wireframing & Prototyping
Sketching
- How do we turn ideas into designs?
- Focus on testing assumptions before moving to high-fidelity deliverables
- If the ideas don't work on paper, they won't work in high-fidelity digital
Wireframing
- Define the structure, hierarchy, and scale of the interface
- What level of fidelity is appropriate?
- Creating an interface language or methodology
- What are some common programs used to create wireframes?
Prototyping
- What are the different types of prototypes and when is each used?
- What does a prototype accomplish?
- How do we test our prototypes
Usability Testing
- What are the different types of usability testing and when is each used?
- What does user feedback tell us and how does we incorporate it?
UX Design Documentation
Presenting UX Design Research
What's included
- Free course retake within one year to refresh the material and gain practice.
- Class recordings
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Live classes
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Starts at 10:00 · America/New_York (EDT); final session ends at 17:00 EDT
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Starts at 10:00 · America/New_York (EST); final session ends at 17:00 EST
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In-person or live online
Starts at 18:00 · America/New_York (EST); final session ends at 21:00 EST
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In-person or live online
Starts at 10:00 · America/New_York (EDT); final session ends at 17:00 EDT
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In-person or live online
Starts at 10:00 · America/New_York (EDT); final session ends at 17:00 EDT
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In-person or live online
Starts at 18:00 · America/New_York (EDT); final session ends at 21:00 EDT
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In-person or live online
Starts at 10:00 · America/New_York (EDT); final session ends at 17:00 EDT
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Self-paced course
Learn through recorded lessons on your own schedule.
This course is available for 30 days. You can choose when to start your access period. Once you activate, you will have 30 days to complete it (access the course materials, quizzes, projects and videos). You may request one extension of seven (7) days. Other extension requests will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis. Videos are not downloadable.
- Tuition
- $695
- Course length
- 12 hours
- Schedule
- On your schedule
User experience (UX) design is often mistaken for simply interface design, but it's actually made up of many moving parts that go well beyond the visual side. A good user experience also takes into account how the user feels.
Whether you're exploring a new career or just looking to better understand the role UX Designers play on your team, the User Experience Foundations course is the perfect primer for learning more about the user experience design process. This UX class blends instruction, discussion, industry examples, and hands-on activities. You'll come away with a broad understanding of how UX Designers work alongside other team members, the fundamentals of the field, and how designers move from research insights to fully formed design concepts.
Self-paced curriculum
What you'll learn self-paced
- What user experience design actually is
- How UX Designers work
- The overall UX design process
- UX research methods, including user interviews, observations, heuristics, and more
- UXD terminology and deliverables, such as personas, journey maps, scenarios, and more
- Sketching and the iterative design process
- How to document and present your work