Intro to UX: Fundamentals of Usability (Skillshare)

Offered by Skillshare,
Intro to UX: Fundamentals of Usability (Skillshare)

Join UserTesting's Marieke McCloskey for an insightful dive into usability — what it means, why it matters, and how you can optimize your product, service, or business. What: In today's competitive market, it's never been more important to make sure that your user experience is easy, clear, and enjoyable.

This 90-minute class gives you the frameworks, tools, and tactics to create a stand-out user experience, with key lessons in:

  • what usability is
  • designing digital products for optimal usability
  • ways to evaluate usability (with hands-on demonstration)
  • best practices for reporting findings and recommendations

Who: This class is ideal for designers, marketers, product managers, developers, and everyone involved in a crafting great customer experiences.
Why: You'll gain a richer understanding of usability as a discipline, empowering you to design, evaluate, and iterate on the user experience.
Evaluate the usability of your product.

ASSIGNMENT
Put your learning into action, and evaluate the usability of your own product — or even one you love! This is an opportunity to deepen your understanding of usability, improving your instincts for evaluating usability and helping you unlock great customer experiences.
Option A: Do a heuristic evaluation of a product, site, or app that is not your own! Check out the resources below for lists of heuristics you can use.
Option B: Run a usability study of your own product, site, or app. Do an informal "hallway" test, consider an in-person moderated session, or explore remote unmoderate options on a platform like UserTesting.
Have fun!

Go to Class
MOOC List is learner-supported. When you buy through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

Related Courses

Talking to Strangers: An Introduction to User Interviews (Skillshare) Skillshare
Skillshare

Talking to Strangers: An Introduction to User Interviews (Skillshare)

Design is nothing without the user, and the best way to find out what the user wants is to talk to them face-to-face. In this class, we will cover everything you need to get started with conducting user interviews to collect valuable qualitative data that will help you humanize your designs. You’ll learn how to write a script...and how/when to veer off the script. You’ll learn how to listen to the user’s stories, and how to respond on the fly to a constantly adapting conversation.

Self Paced
Self-Paced
Intro to UX: Conducting Smart User Research  (Skillshare) Skillshare
Skillshare

Intro to UX: Conducting Smart User Research (Skillshare)

Join UserTesting's Janelle Estes for a straightforward look at how to gain smart, useful feedback about how users experience your product, service, or business. What: Understanding your users' experience — behaviors, attitudes, and perceptions — helps you gain gain user empathy, see new opportunities for change, and prioritize product improvements. But: how do you gain that understanding? This 45-minute gives you an approach for 4 popular research methods so that you can truly understand your product's user experience.

Self Paced
Self-Paced
Design a User Experience for Social Good & Prepare for Jobs (Coursera) Coursera
Google

Design a User Experience for Social Good & Prepare for Jobs (Coursera)

Design a User Experience for Social Good and Prepare for Jobs is the seventh and final course in a program that will equip you with the skills you need to become an entry-level UX designer. In this course, you will design a dedicated mobile app and a responsive website focused on social good. You will showcase all that you’ve learned during the certificate program to complete the design process from beginning to end: empathizing with users, defining their pain points, coming up with ideas for design solutions, creating wireframes and prototypes, and testing designs to get feedback. By the end of this course, you will have a new cross-platform design project to include in your professional UX portfolio.

Jun 30th 2026
5-12 Weeks
Design Principles: an Introduction (Coursera) Coursera
University of California, San Diego

Design Principles: an Introduction (Coursera)

What makes an interface intuitive? How can I tell whether one design works better than another? This course will teach you fundamental principles of design and how to effectively evaluate your work with users. You'll learn fundamental principles of visual design so that you can effectively organize and present information with your interfaces. You'll learn principles of perception and cognition that inform effective interaction design. And you'll learn how to perform and analyze controlled experiments online. In many cases, we'll use Web design as the anchoring domain.

Jun 29th 2026
3 Weeks
Discovery Kanban 101: How to Integrate User-Centered Design with Agile (Skillshare) Skillshare
Skillshare

Discovery Kanban 101: How to Integrate User-Centered Design with Agile (Skillshare)

Learn how to make space for designers and researchers to do user-centered design in an Agile/scrum engineering environment. By creating an explicit Discovery process to focus on customer needs before committing engineers to shipping code, you will unlock design’s potential to deliver great user experiences to your customers.

Self Paced
Self-Paced
The World according to UX - a bold mindset for aspiring UX Designers (Skillshare) Skillshare
Skillshare

The World according to UX - a bold mindset for aspiring UX Designers (Skillshare)

This class is for you who considers to start a career as an UX Designer. But even if you already work in the field of UX/UI design the presented thought models in this class will bring you new perspectives and inspiration for your daily challenges. The world is changing in an ever faster pace due to digitalisation and globalisation. This leads to friction in our social and political landscapes.

Self Paced
Self-Paced
Whimsical - Flowcharts and Wireframes (Skillshare) Skillshare
Skillshare

Whimsical - Flowcharts and Wireframes (Skillshare)

Whimsical is a relatively new online collaboration tool that allows you to build quick flowcharts and wireframes. Think of it as similar to Google docs, in that several users can be on the same screen all working together. Pretty cool! There are no prerequisites for the class and Whimsical has a free tier for up to four boards. Along the way, l have a couple of challenges for you to work on. So, join me in learning to create flowcharts and wireframes with Whimsical.

Self Paced
Self-Paced
Validating product ideas with interviews for Product Managers (Skillshare) Skillshare
Skillshare

Validating product ideas with interviews for Product Managers (Skillshare)

I designed this course for Product Managers who have new product or feature ideas and would like to talk to customers and learn whether their idea will fly. This is the first and ultimate question in product development: do customers need my product? Do they need it so dearly that they would actually pay for it? So, how do you figure this out before actually building the product? Well, user research has your back covered. You can find out whether customers need a product or a feature even before you wrote a single line of code.

Self Paced
Self-Paced
Designing a seamless Line Icon Pattern: Bringing those Backgrounds to Life. (Coursera) Skillshare
Skillshare

Designing a seamless Line Icon Pattern: Bringing those Backgrounds to Life. (Coursera)

In this class you'll learn how to design seamless pattern backgrounds for use on a number of projects, such as: Web/ Mobile, Illustration, Print, Promotional backdrops and more. All within Adobe Illustrator. We'll cover some basic iconography design, artwork preparation, and the best practises for saving your background out for it's intended purpose.

Self Paced
Self-Paced
Know Your Audience - Bring Your Personas to Life! (Skillshare) Skillshare
Skillshare

Know Your Audience - Bring Your Personas to Life! (Skillshare)

User Personas - high-level descriptions of your target audience's needs and challenges - are becoming mainstays for software product teams. But like many other requirements documentation, they can often feel flat, overly generic, and nearly useless once development has actually begun. In becoming “just another form to fill out,” your User Personas have lost connection with their original purpose: to help product teams build connection and empathy with your primary customer base, and in doing so provide the grounding basis for fast and deliberate decision making.

Self Paced
Self-Paced