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Don’t Know Where to Start?
Become a great UX Designer with 21 courses in 4 parts. As a UX Designer, you are an expert in the user-centered design process and play a jack-of-all-trades role—this learning path allows you to gain a keen sense of usability, psychology, and business to excel in your job.
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Foundation (2 courses)
These foundation courses provide an excellent introduction to UX design and are recommended for everyone.
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UX Designer Beginner (9 courses)
Learn the basics of UX design and how to run a user-centered design project, as well as how to build your UX portfolio.
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UX Designer Intermediate (7 courses)
Get equipped with the most important tools of the UX designers toolbox—UI design and user research.
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UX Designer Advanced (3 courses)
Gain holistic knowledge so you can make your UX project matter not only to your users, but also inside your organization.
Most popular User Experience Courses
Beginner User Experience Courses
Gestalt Psychology and Web Design: The Ultimate Guide
Intermediate User Experience Courses
Service Design: How to Design Integrated Service Experiences
Advanced User Experience Courses
The Brain and Technology: Brain Science in Interface Design
How to Create Intuitive Products by Imitating Physicality
Too Busy For a Full Course?
Try our on-demand Master Classes instead! In just 60 minutes, you can learn directly from design experts about a variety of topics!
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Adobe Firefly and Generative AI: Beginners Guide
How to Fix UX Fails with Object-Oriented UX
Storyboarding 101: From Ideas to Narratives
How to Innovate with XR
Human-Centered Design for AI
Rapid Prototyping for Virtual Reality
Conversation Design: Practical Tips for AI Design
How to Make Your AI Project a Success
Design KPIs: From Insights to Impact
User Stories Don't Help Users: Introducing Persona Stories
How to Prototype for Games UX
How To Balance Remote and In-Person UX Work
How to Design for Neurodiversity: Inclusive Content and UX
How To Craft Immersive Experiences in XR
How to Design for Civic Life
How to Create Actionable User Journey Maps
How to Build a Successful Portfolio
Boost Mobile UX with UX Design Principles and Best Practices
How to Manage Personal UX Maturity
AI-Powered UX Design: How to Elevate Your UX Career
How to Create Complex Tables Users Love: A UI Designer's Guide
How to Create Successful Design Systems with Storytelling
How to Become a Games User Researcher
How to Design for Discoverability
UI Design for Games: Starter Edition
How to Design for User Trust
Evaluating Your UX Maturity: Limits and Opportunities
Complex UI Design: Practical Techniques
Emotional Design: Evoke Emotional Responses Through Design
Top 10 Things Designers Need to Know About People
Survival Metrics: Getting Change Done In An Agile and Data-Informed Way
Introduction to Digital Accessibility
How To Attract Users Through Great Onboarding Experiences
The Power of Storytelling in UX
How To Find User Insights Through Storytelling
How to Design Engaging Products: Insights from Fortnite's UX
Strategy Custody: How to Secure Your Strategy's Success
A Guide To Hassle-Free Designer-Developer Collaboration
Exclusive: Design for a Better World, a Discussion with Don Norman
How to Become a Visual Thinker With Sketchnoting
UX Careers: Set Yourself Up for Success
How to Balance Simplicity and Complexity in UX
How to Design with the Mind in Mind
Beyond Design: Practical Tips for Freelancing & Creating Your Brand
Conceptual Models: A Guide To Intuitive Design
How to Get Started with Usability Testing
How To Create Actionable Personas
How To Influence Behavior Through Virtual Reality Narratives
How to Design with and for Artificial Intelligence
How To Differentiate Your Mobile UX
User Journey Mapping for Better UX
Games UX: Process and Pipeline Deep Dive
How to Design for an Aging Population
How to Build Your UX Toolbox
Navigating Career Changes: How to Break into UX and Product Design
Games UX Foundations: Starter Edition
How to Get Started as a UX Consultant
Radical Participatory Design: Insights From NASA’s Service Design Lead
The Tone Of Typography: A Visual Communication Guide
Beyond Interfaces: The UI Design Skills You Need to Know
How To Use Color Theory To Enhance Your Designs
How To Communicate With Typography
UX Writing: How To Use Words As A Design Power Tool
Storytelling Through Visual Design: A Practical Guide
Innovating In An Enterprise: The Challenges And How To Overcome Them
How To Design Forms Like An Expert
Design For Agile: Common Mistakes And How To Avoid Them
How To Successfully Change Your Career To UX Design
How To Use Card Sorting For Better Information Architecture
Harness Your Creativity To Design Better Products
How To Prepare For The Future Of Mobile UX
Behavioral Design: Create Engaging Products with Behavioral Science
How (and When) To Run A Design Sprint
How To Remove Bias From Your Products
21st Century Design with Don Norman
How To Design UX That Users Love To Convert Through
How To Design Experiences for AI
Win Clients, Pitches & Approval: Present Your Designs Effectively
How To Deal With People Who Don't Get Design
How To Conduct Effective User Interviews
UX Magic: Achieve 10X Better Designs Through Semantic Interaction Design
Disruptive Design: Is your UX future-proof?
Design with Data: A Guide to A/B Testing
Going from UX to Service Design
Upcoming Live Master Classes
Accessible and Inclusive Design Patterns
When we contemplate accessibility, our minds often gravitate toward familiar considerations—such as color contrast, legible font sizes, and mobile tap targets. However, inclusive design transcends these apparent essentials, aspiring to craft accessible and inclusive experiences for all. Navigating the intricacies of inclusive design poses challenges, and it is crucial to discern and implement the right design choices early on to avert potential issues down the line.
How would you design for young children and older adults? What about users with dyslexia, color blindness or autism? How about left-handed users? And what do we need to keep in mind when designing mental health applications or LGBTQI-friendly forms?
In this practical Master Class webinar, Vitaly Friedman will take a deep dive into design guidelines, numerous real-life examples, best practices, and guidelines for truly inclusive, universal and accessible design.
You’ll learn:
- How to design for children and older adults.
- How to consider neurodiversity and autism.
- How to design for people with dyslexia or dyscalculia.
- How to design with left-handed users in mind.
- Design patterns for inclusive forms.
Join this webinar to add new practical techniques to your design toolbox that you can apply to any project.
Even if you can't attend live, register to gain access to a recording that you can watch at any time after the broadcast.
The Importance of Emotional Intelligence in UX
For years the field of UX has focused on methods, methodologies, techniques, artifacts, and deliverables. We have learned, however, that truly successful UX is not just about the work. The ability to interact, relate, and exchange with team members, stakeholders, clients, and leadership has proven to be even more important in some cases. For these reasons, the importance of soft skills (and more specifically, emotional intelligence or EQ) has become increasingly critical.
You'll learn:
- The challenges and issues EQ can help you overcome as a UX professional.
- How EQ can impact your projects.
- How EQ helps optimize relationships with stakeholders and teammates.
- The benefits EQ in personal and professional growth.
- Key EQ red flags that serve as identifiers for self growth or in one's teams.
You’ll leave this Master Class with a sound understanding of EQ, its role in UX and its importance to practitioners and the discipline-at-large.
Even if you can't attend live, register to gain access to a recording that you can watch at any time after the broadcast.
The 5 Deadly Sins of Strategy
Are you tired of spending countless hours looking at strategies that end up collecting dust on the shelf? Do you want to elevate your career being known as someone with a strategic mindset backed by actions that drive real results?
Join this Master Class webinar with Product Management Expert, Adam Thomas, to transform the way you approach strategy.
You’ll learn:
- How to tackle the Five Deadly Sins of Strategy: Hiddenness, Ambiguity, Selfishness, Indecisiveness, and Untrustworthiness
- How to go beyond the buzzwords: Say goodbye to clichés and dive deep into the true essence of strategy.
- How to breathe life into strategy, making them the driving force behind your designs.
- Master key skills, gain practical tools for success and overcome the strategic pitfalls that plague many designers.
- How to empower your communication with advanced facilitation skills to ensure your ideas are heard and valued.
Mastering strategy is not just about creating beautiful designs; it's about understanding and executing your vision. Leave this session with a crystal-clear understanding of the true essence of strategy and how it applies to your role as a designer.
Equipped with your new strategic thinking skills you can stand out in your field and open doors to exciting opportunities, impress potential employers and clients, take your designs to the next level and become a leader in your organization.
Don't miss this chance to redefine your approach to strategy—not just as a plan, but as action.
Even if you can't attend live, register to gain access to a recording that you can watch at any time after the broadcast.
How to Elevate Your UI Design with Fonts
Typography is pivotal in User Interface (UI) design; it acts as a visual language that communicates messages and shapes aesthetics. It enhances readability, accessibility, and brand identity.
In this Master Class webinar, author and designer Ellen Lupton will show you how to choose, mix, and deploy the right typefaces for your project. Explore the nuances of popular fonts, discovering their distinctive qualities and their transformative impact on design aesthetics and functionality.
You’ll learn:
- Serif vs sans serif: myth and reality.
- Legibility and readability.
- Function and expression.
- Typefaces for brands and editorial design.
- Typefaces for reading.
- How to mix typefaces.
- Internationalization.
- Visual hierarchy.
- Google fonts and their use.
- Adobe fonts and their use.
- Independent type foundries.
Watch this webinar to expand your knowledge of typefaces and their use in UI design. Create products and websites that express brand personality and enhance user experience.
Even if you can't attend live, register to gain access to a recording that you can watch at any time after the broadcast.
Design Patterns for AI UX
When we think of AI products, we often think of text prompts. We envision a single text box, which we populate with context, keywords, pointers, guidelines, modes and references. However, a text box isn’t an effective design pattern for complex input. How can we elevate the UX of AI? Which design patterns can expedite users toward their objectives more efficiently?
In this session with Vitaly Friedman, creative lead and UX designer working with the European Parliament, we’ll look into design patterns for a better AI user experience. You’ll learn:
- AI presets
- Contextual suggestions
- Temperature knobs
- Invisible clustering
- and much more!
Join this Master Class webinar to learn design patterns for AI that you can apply to your work right away.
Even if you can't attend live, register to gain access to a recording that you can watch at any time after the broadcast.
Design for Adaptability: Component-Driven Information Architecture
If your content is a mess and users can’t find what they're looking for, your website isn't usable. The key to overcome or avoid this problem is a robust information architecture (IA). Help users accomplish their goals efficiently with the proper process. In this Master Class with UX Researcher and Inclusive Designer Stéphanie Walter, you'll learn the step-by-step process to organise content and extract your full page IA and your overview components.
Learn how to save time by making the right decisions early with low fidelity wireframes instead of detailed mockups.
This process comes with a toolkit you can apply to any type of website, from simple sites to complex enterprise products. You'll be able to apply those concepts in your daily work with the help of Stéphanie's trusty Miro board.
In this Master Class, you’ll learn:
- How to explore the fundamentals of an overview-detail model and understand how modular components work at different sizes.
- How to create a content model for a detailed page.
- How to build a content hierarchy and priority, based on user needs.
- How to build detailed low fidelity wireframes of pages and responsive modular components out of that content priority.
Go from complexity to clarity with a guided process you can make your own!
Even if you can't attend live, register to gain access to a recording that you can watch at any time after the broadcast.
UX Design is a Booming Industry
Job opportunities for people with design skills are increasing like never before (an estimated 13% increase from 2010 to 2020). And UX designer salaries are soaring—upwards of $110K in cities like San Francisco and New York.
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