User Experience UX Design Online Short Course

Course description

User Experience (UX) Design will teach you the essentials of app design and address the importance of User Experience (UX) as an approach to solve people's problems.

Look into what user experience design is, how it can help you create a more user friendly website/mobile app or desktop application. Combine theory with practice and receive support on your journey from an app idea all the way through to app design.

You will receive feedback, critique and helpful tips on how to identify user needs and behaviours, and iterate your design ideas, design wireframes, build and test prototypes and finally, refine and polish your design. You will also consider design documentation and the preparation of assets for developers so that you get familiar with the professional UX processes.

In this course you’ll use a range of methods, approaches and available tools, to discover and champion user needs, and validate design concepts by eliciting user feedback to measure usability.

Who should attend

Ideal for design students or graphic design practitioners with a keen interest in using digital solution to solve problems. As well as other digital practitioners, such as project managers, marketers and copywriters, wanting to adopt design thinking approaches and collaborate with UX designers.

For more information on Online Short Courses please see the below information.

All our Online Short Courses include:

Live online lessons with the same tutors
The same course content and learning outcomes
Lesson recordings, for review
Access to VLE with course content
Forums for support
2 weeks online access
Certificate upon completion

Further details about preparing for your online course, and the equipment you need, can be found here.

Please note that all courses are taught in UK time. To check and compare times please click here.

Available dates

Enquire about this course and we will contact you when new dates are published.

Materials

Online Short Course Materials

To take part in the Online sessions you will need:

An up-to-date web browser (we recommend Chrome)
Microphone and headphones (a headset with a microphone function is recommended. The built-in microphone in your device would also be fine).
Webcam
Strong Internet connection - we recommend a minimum of 2 Mbps download, and 1 Mbps upload, faster if possible. You can test your network speed here - https://www.speedtest.net

Please bring the following with you on the first day of the course:

A smart phone or tablet to create your app prototype with

Details

Topics covered

Research techniques (Interviews, surveys)
Research synthesis (user journeys, user personas)
Design thinking and lean methodology, introduction to agile and sprints
Design principles and patterns
Case studies
Inclusive design and accessibility principles
Human-machine interaction guidelines
Sketching and wireframe design
Prototypes, testing and iterations

Course outcomes

By the end of the course, you will have a greater confidence and understanding of the benefits of UYou will have built an app prototype and begun to test, refine and share this.

Reviews

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Good balance of theory and practical. Interactive, clear and useful feedback, fun! Mamiyu Mishika, February 2017

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The tutor was great, excellent teacher and made everything that little more exciting. The course was more involved than I expected, which made it more enjoyable. Alex Watson, February 2017