UX Design for Beginners Short Course

The UX Design for Beginners Short Course is a professionally focused, design-led five-day course that will equip you with the fundamental skills to conceive, prototype and produce a human-centered user journeys in an interactive digital context.

The course intends to equip participants with some of the standard methods of UX design but also an awareness of the wider social, ethical and political contexts in which UX work is done. This course is designed to be technology and medium agnostic, we use any materials and technologies we think appropriate for the development of practical skills and design thinking.

There's an increasingly high demand for experience designers who are able to combine their creative skills with profound insight into human behaviours, contexts. This course prepares you for the rapidly expanding field of UX. You'll learn the advanced studio skills of user experience design, the methods and practices of user research and the critical-theoretical background to the field.

Course Outcomes

By the end of this course you should be able to:

• Gather, analyse and structure qualitative research data about how people behave with technologies and spaces to inform the development of a UX design project.

• Conceive, plan and prototype in low fidelity resolution your chosen design solution taking account of the social and political dimensions of your idea.

• Show how your design would play out in a narrative scenario involving people and situations from your chosen concept area.

• Present a high resolution digital prototype of your design and demonstrate how it intersects with existing systems, behaviours, services and contexts.

Who Should Attend

This course is ideal for designers looking for a way to develop new skills. You may be a designers wishing to change careers and disciplines, or may be UX practitioners wishing to deepen their theoretical and conceptual understanding of the field. If you are a digital designers, it will teach you how to transcend the confines of the computer screen and the constrained production cycles of software development. It is also suitable for non-designers who may have a background in psychology, engineering or anthropology who wish to implement their ideas more tangibly.

Level
Beginner: You need to have basic computer skills.

Topics Covered

• Field research

• Paper prototyping

• Digital prototyping

• Context mapping

• Information Architecture

• Scenario development

• Technical implementation

• The physical, personal and social contexts for UX

• Structuring an experience

• Relationship between digital and physical artefacts