Become a great Usability Expert with 9 courses in 4 parts. These courses will train you to become an expert in applying usability principles in your work to identify usability problems and evaluate prototypes.
These foundation courses provide an excellent introduction to UX design and are recommended for everyone.
Learn fundamental usability principles and how to use them in interaction design.
Master how to test the usability of your designs and create efficient web designs.
Use your new-found knowledge in psychology, brain science, and accessibility to design for universal usability.
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What does a successful UX career look like? There is no one unique answer to this question. The path towards a fulfilling UX career starts with you choosing the right path for yourself. There are many different paths of progression within the UX field and by acknowledging your own personal metrics, skills and ambitions you’ll be able to choose the one that suits you best.
However, it can be challenging to figure out how to take that next step in your UX career. In this Master Class with Pavitra Tandon, you’ll discover whether UX is right for you and the ins and outs of the different career paths within the UX field.
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This Master Class is for anyone who is interested in pursuing a career into the ever-evolving field of UX, or for people wanting to transition into UX.
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Typography is one of the cornerstones of design and user experience. It’s a powerful tool to communicate what your design and product is all about. If you learn how to intentionally communicate with typography, you’ll be able to deliver better user experiences and take your designs to the next level.
In this Master Class webinar, Mia Cinelli will talk about how to communicate with typography in your products and experiences and will teach you how to use visual inflection while considering how context influences typographic meaning.
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Join this Master Class webinar to learn how to communicate effectively with typography and improve your work as a UX or UI designer.
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How do you evaluate your organization’s UX maturity? Does it even matter where your organization is on the maturity ladder?
Building a UX team, or joining a new team, whether as a UX Designer, Researcher, or Service Designer, can be enriching or full of obstacles depending on whether your organization lets you practice your craft.
UX maturity is a marker of progress or health, but what does it mean, and how can you use it to evolve your organization or team capabilities?
In this Master Class webinar, Frank Spillers will give you practical tips for using maturity models realistically while moving on to more critical tasks of UX organizational growth.
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No matter where you are in the UX maturity model, learning how to make an impact within your organization is a crucial task for UX and Service Designers. When you realize the limits and opportunities the UX maturity model provides, it can be easier to use as a tool in UX management or working with a new team.
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Have you ever been a part of a participatory design process or used of a participatory method only to find that it fell short of any real shift in power dynamics? Have you ever compared notes with another participatory designer only to find out their definition of participatory design is different than your own? Have you faced opposition from your organization in practicing design in a more participatory way?
Join us, add to the conversation, and see what Victor Udoewa, NASA’s Service Design Lead, has to say about such experiences, the different definitions of participatory design and how participatory design can actually be used to reinforce hierarchies. One way he has found to dismantle that system is to practice Radical Participatory Design (RPD).
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This Master Class is for anyone involved or interested in participatory design and how to make the process more effective and efficient.
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The games industry revenue ($183 Billion in 2021) and the player base have grown exponentially since the launch of smartphones and is expected to reach a value of USD 339.95 billion by 2027. Games require the same usability, interaction design and easy learning curve that users demand from other software products, meaning that the Games UX has become an in-demand and lucrative career path.
A career in Games UX is appealing for many reasons. The continuous technological advancements are changing the way games are created with the goal to improve the overall gaming experience of the users. Discover the strategic and tactical aspects of how to set up a successful Games UX pipeline, factoring in the UX maturity of a company.
In this Master Class, Om Tandon will walk you through real case studies from startups to Fortune 500 multinational corporations (MNC) and showcase the tactical execution required to get project teams to embrace a UX first mindset, prove the ROI of UX and embed it in agile teams.
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This Master Class is for anyone who is interested in UX for games and for designers who want to transition from UX to games UX design.
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Uncover actionable insights using an empathetic mindset and a user journey mapping framework. Iterate and optimize user experience by highlighting key touchpoints and uncovering product or communication gaps.
In this Master Class, Kelly Jura, renaissance woman and UX design pioneer, will illustrate why user journey mapping can be one of the best exercises you’ll ever conduct.
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This Master Class is for anyone who is interested in better understanding how to visually represent the way users experience products or services and improve the experience for end users.
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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.
Use your certificates to make a life-changing shift into UX or stay ahead in your UX career. Salaries are among the highest in the world.
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