UX Design Short Course

Course description

User Experience (UX) Design short course is a professionally focused, design-led five-day course that will equip you with the fundamental skills to conceive, prototype and produce a human-centred user journeys in an interactive digital context.

The course intends to equip participants with some of the standard methods of UX design but also an awareness of the wider social, ethical and political contexts in which UX work is done. This course is designed to be technology and medium agnostic, we use any materials and technologies we think appropriate for the development of practical skills and design thinking.

There's an increasingly high demand for experience designers who are able to combine their creative skills with profound insight into human behaviours, contexts. This course prepares you for the rapidly expanding field of UX.

You'll learn the advanced studio skills of user experience design, the methods and practices of user research and the critical-theoretical background to the field.

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

• Gather, analyse and structure qualitative research data about how people behave with technologies and spaces to inform the development of a UX design project.
• Conceive, plan and prototype in low fidelity resolution your chosen design solution taking account of the social and political dimensions of your idea.
• Show how your design would play out in a narrative scenario involving people and situations from your chosen concept area.
• Present a high resolution digital prototype of your design and demonstrate how it intersects with existing systems, behaviours, services and contexts.

Who Should Attend
This course is ideal for designers looking for a way to develop new skills. You may be a designers wishing to change careers and disciplines, or may be UX practitioners wishing to deepen their theoretical and conceptual understanding of the field.
If you are a digital designers, it will teach you how to transcend the confines of the computer screen and the constrained production cycles of software development. It is also suitable for non-designers who may have a background in psychology, engineering or anthropology who wish to implement their ideas more tangibly.

Level
Beginner: You need to have basic computer skills.

Clear, easy to understand lessons:

• Our tutors will explain things in easy to understand, accessible English. If they need to use any special terminology they will make sure they explain what they mean.
• New methods will be shown to students through live demonstrations, in a way that’s crystal clear and easy to understand.

Experience life on campus

• Network and share ideas with students from across the globe
• Access the technology and materials relevant to your discipline
• Shop in our college shops for any materials you might need
• Ask questions of your tutor in real time
• Receive feedback and critique on your assignments
• Experience the many sights of London on your down time

A certificate of completion:

• You've put the work in so we want to make sure you have something to show for it!
• As long as you attend a minimum of 80% of your classes, we will provide you with a certificate of attendance.
• We always recommend you attend all of the classes so that you get the most out of the experience!
• Certificates are great to complement your cv.

This course is scheduled to run on campus in a face-to-face delivery format. Please note that due to the ongoing pandemic situation this course may be adapted in line with UK government guidance or other operational requirements. This may include changing course location (to another UAL site), cancellation of the course, or moving part or all of the course online. In the event of any changes being required we will inform you as soon as possible and support you in any changes required. Please bear this in mind when making any travel, visa, or accommodation arrangements.