Getting Started With User Experience Design (Springboard)

Offered by Springboard,
Getting Started With User Experience Design (Springboard)

If you’re wondering if a career in UX design is right for you, this course is what you need. Getting Started with User Experience Design will teach you the basics of UX design through hands-on projects.

In the course you'll:

  • Get a peek into what life is like as a UX designer
  • Learn how to conduct research to understand your users
  • Learn the process of ideation and sketching
  • Discover what exactly a wireframe is and how to make one
  • Work through a project to complete a wireframe from start to finish

Get started in this free course today and begin your journey into UX design.

Course Curriculum

Dive Into UX Design
Start A Peek Into the World Of UX Design
Start Video: Most Important Skill for UX Designers
Start Video: Describing UX to Family and Friends
Start Article: What do I (UX designer) actually do?
Start Project Framing
Start Optional Article: Design Thinking 101

Understanding Your Users
Start Understanding Your Users
Start Video: Just Enough Research
Start Article: How to Know Your Users' Needs
Start Article: User Personas
Start Video: Tips for Creating and Using User Personas in UX
Start Optional Articles: A Closer Look at Personas

Ideation and Sketching
Start Defining Goals
Start Article: How Google Approaches the Process of Ideation
Start Article: 7 Reasons for Sketching in UX Design
Start Project: Ideation and Sketching

Go to Class
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