User Experience (UX): The Ultimate Guide to Usability and UX

Get a job in UX and build your user research and UX design skills with this hands-on user experience training course.

Created by: David Travis
Author of 'Think Like a UX Researcher'

What Will I Learn?

• Bake UX into your workflow by following a proven, user centred design framework.
• Plan field visits and user interviews to uncover user needs.
• Moderate a usability test and prioritise the observations.
• Create personas, user stories, red routes and user journey maps.
• Uncover and describe users’ mental models.
• Choose appropriate schemes for classifying and organising information.
• Design and conduct online and offline card sorting sessions.
• Select appropriate user interface design patterns.
• Develop cheap, throwaway prototypes to get quick and frequent feedback from your users.
• Create user interface designs that exploit universal principles of visual design.
• Design usability tests to measure time on task, success rate and user satisfaction.
• Evaluate the usability of systems by applying usability heuristics.
• Prepare for the BCS Foundation Certificate in User Experience.

Requirements

• You don't need a background in user experience, design or coding to take this course.
• This is an in-depth course. If you allocate 60-90 mins a day, and do all of the activities, it will take 2-3 weeks to complete.

Target audience

• Anyone who wants to transition from their current job role to a career in user experience.
• User researchers or designers who want to build their user experience portfolio by applying their skills to a real world design project.
• Software developers who want to learn techniques for designing more engaging systems.
• Project managers and Scrum Masters who want a full lifecycle process for introducing usability into their design project.
• Interface designers who want to learn methods for testing and evaluating their designs.
• Web site designers who want to understand the principles of human-centred design.
• Marketing managers who want to find out about the business and brand benefits of user experience.
• Business analysts who want quick and effective tools for communicating requirements of users.