User Experience (UX) Design Online Short Course

Course description

Learn how to design delightful user experiences in partnership with designers and communications professionals. This UX design online course is ideal you for you if customers are key to your business and you want to design effectively for them. Learning will be informed by the lean method; you will start by examining users and exploring research techniques, the analysing and integrating user testing at every step of the design, to teach you powerful user experience design skills.

You will learn to sketch web experience working on a live brief, based on existing customer research, and you will also have the opportunity to apply what you have learned to your own projects.

This is a practical course to help you design user-centred experiences efficiently, following lean methods. To get the most out of this course you will be expected to complete weekly homework assignments taking a minimum of 1.5 hours a week.

Outcomes

By the end of this course you should be able to:

• Use a lean user experience process
• Plan your user research, choosing when and how to conduct it
• Analyse and use your research
• Research competitors and audit websites
• Create key design assets such as personas and user journeys
• Know the main use interaction design principles
• Sketch a user interface

Who Should Attend

This is ideal for you if you are a designer who wants to develop expertise in this in-demand area. It is perfect if you work as an account manager, marketer or communications professional who works with UX designers.

Please note that all courses are taught in UK time.