The purpose of this UX Design course is to lead you through the stages involved in building a web or mobile application through to the end prototype ready for testing. Using a series of engaging assignments, you will build a fully functional prototype.

All of these tools used on this UX Design course are meant to assist in learning the fundamentals of usability design without having to do any actual coding in HTML, CSS, JavaScript and other programs.

WHO IS THIS COURSE FOR?

Design practitioners, developers, product managers, marketers, usability professionals, and decision-makers who have some experience creating products but want to take their skills and processes to the next level.

Those who want to work better with user experience teams and agencies
Looking for an initial understanding or more strategic view of user experience
Looking for a great foundation to go on and learn the more in-depth areas covered in our other related courses

ASSUMED KNOWLEDGE

No previous design experience required, but you should have a basic working knowledge of either Windows or Mac.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

Identify business goals and user needs
Use observation/interviews techniques to gather rich user data
Analyse user data to extract pain points and create personas and storyboards
Develop ideas and solutions
Design basic wireframes to establish how user will use your product
Create low fidelity prototypes to test and verify your concept

Introduction

Course overview
What is UX design?
The UX development life-cycle
UX methods and techniques
Understanding user needs

Research

Planning and conducting user research
Identifying research goals
Research techniques and methods
Gathering user data

Documenting User Data

Common techniques

Best Practice

Analysing user data
Understanding UX specific techniques and methods
Identifying user needs and pain points
Creating user experience map

Personas

What are personas?
Identify your persona’s needs
Creating personas

Ideation

Generating ideas based on user needs
Ideation techniques (brainstorming, brainwriting…)
Evaluating solutions

Scenarios

How can scenarios aid the UX design process?
*Understanding scenario formats
Creating scenarios

Storyboards

What are storyboards?
Storyboard techniques
Creating storyboards

Wireframes

Understanding wireframes tools
How to best layout and structure content
Creating wireframes

Flow Charts

Understanding flow chart techniques
Paper vs computer generated flow charts
Creating flow charts

Prototypes

Advantages of using prototypes
Introduction to low and high-fidelity
Prototyping methods and tools
Creating a number of prototypes

Usability testing

Plan a conduct user tests
Evaluating and documenting user testing results

Public Scheduled Classes

Come into one of our centrally located training facilities. Small class sizes, industry experienced instructors, and many classes lead towards certification.

Virtual Student

Attend a real-time class without leaving home.

Find out more

Private Training

We can organise training for you. We can do it for only one person or a group. Give us a call an we can make arrangements for your course.

Live Online Training

With our online toolbox let your global team learn together. Give us a call and we can make arrangements for your course.

Academy In A Case

If you can’t come to us we can come to you. Give us a call and we can make arrangements for your course.

Spreading the cost of your training

You know that in the long term it pays to be skilled up in the latest software. But you’ll also know that, in the short term, investing in yourself can feel painful on your pocket. So we’ve got a solution that will help you learn the skills you need, at a monthly price that you can afford.

Introducing Academy Class Payments.

Because we’re committed to your success, we’re offering you the opportunity to pay for your training monthly, rather than the whole cost upfront. We want to remove every barrier we can to your success, and if having the flexibility to spread the cost of your training helps you, as it helps thousands of others, then let’s do it.

Save With Academy Class Vouchers

Academy Class Vouchers are a flexible, cost-effective solution for training multiple individuals within a team or across an organisation and allow any member within your organisation to book a training course anytime over a 12 month period.

Multiple users can make dramatic savings, booking 10 to 30 day training blocks from the Academy Class schedule. It’s up to you how many Academy Class Vouchers you purchase.

All you need to remember is that, the more you buy, the more you save.

5 out of 5

Mia Worthington – July 12, 2016

The UX Design course is one of the most practical and hands-on courses I’ve ever done; we were actively doing, not passively listening to theory.
5 out of 5

Karen – June 30, 2016

I just wanted to say how much I enjoyed the course, it was well structured, the content was excellent, it was interesting, fun and Ive no doubt has provided me with the tools I need for my future career development.
5 out of 5

Gemma Middleton – June 30, 2016

This is the second time I have used Academy Class and once again found the service impeccable. If you are looking for a company that delivers excellent training coupled with fantastic upfront support then look no further.
5 out of 5

Annmarie Millar, Cordia Services LLP – June 21, 2016

The Academy Class trainer explained everything in a really clear and concise way, he was really friendly and approachable, answering all the questions that I had. The actual course content covered everything that I wanted to learn and I really enjoyed it!

UX design course London, Manchester, Glasgow, Leeds

Enquire