Become a UX Designer from Scratch
How This Course Will Help Your Career
What You’ll Learn
- An introduction to the main areas of user experience work, and why it matters
- The various UX roles in an organization
- How to create UX deliverables—with downloadable templates on creating personas, customer journey maps, prototypes, and many more
- How to go through the five stages of the design thinking process: empathize, define, ideate, prototype, and test
- How to start building a UX portfolio to land yourself a UX role
- The confidence to work with clients as a UX consultant
If you want to join one of the most rapidly growing fields in design, then look no further—this is the course for you. Through covering the ins and outs of the role, and throwing the doors wide open to the exciting world of UX design, “Become a UX Designer from Scratch” will take things right back to the beginning; it will offer a ‘hard reset’ in order to show you how to embark on a new career in UX design.
All products, whether digital or otherwise, must deliver a high-quality user experience (UX) or risk losing users to competitors—after all, a product is useless without its users! Products with good UX sell better; in fact, design-centric businesses have consistently outperformed the industry average by more than double, according to the Design Management Institute. Demand for UX designers is therefore higher than ever before; they are already prevalent in tech companies, and there is a growing need for them within other industries. UX impacts UI design, web design, and graphic design, and understanding the field of UX will improve your efforts within all of those areas.
Through this course, you will learn all the skills you need to assist companies in delivering the right UX for their products. All techniques included in the teaching are tried-and-tested industry standards, which will equip you with the very best knowledge to start you off on your new professional path. You will learn how to create various UX deliverables from the beginning of a UX project right to the end, ranging from customer journey maps to paper prototypes and even heuristic evaluations. You will also take your first steps towards creating a UX portfolio—something that will truly make an impact on your UX job applications.
You will also find a number of optional exercises and home assignments that build on one another and follow a design process—from the first idea, right through to the point where you can start testing your prototype. We highly recommend that you take up the challenge and complete all the exercises involved, because not only will you get hands-on experience with UX design but, by the end, you will also have a design case study that you can include in your portfolio.
In “Become a UX Designer from Scratch”, you will gain access to interviews with UX hiring managers and experts from companies such as SAP and Google. Through these interviews, you will understand what hiring managers and senior designers look for when hiring a new member of the team—all so that you can gain an advantage over fellow candidates. We have also filmed a series of interviews with members who have successfully landed a UX job. These will provide you with inspiration for your own career prospects, as well as invaluable advice about how to transition into a career in UX and what daily life as a UX professional really looks like.
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Is This Course Right for You?
This is a beginner-level course suitable for anyone who wants to embark on a career in UX design:
- UX designers, interaction designers, and UI designers looking to build effective portfolios and land their next UX job
- Students keen on becoming UX designers or UX consultants
- Entrepreneurs and business owners interested in conducting UX work on their own products or services
- Anyone aspiring to change into a career in the field of UX
Learn and Work with a Global Team of Designers
You’ll join a global community and work together to improve your skills and career opportunities. Connect with helpful peers and make friends with like-minded individuals as you push deeper into the exciting and booming industry of design.
Lessons in This Course
- Each week, one lesson becomes available.
- There’s no time limit to finish a course. Lessons have no deadlines.
- Estimated learning time: 17 hours 23 mins spread over 5 weeks.
Lesson 0: Welcome and Introduction
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0.1: Welcome and Introduction – Become a UX Designer from Scratch (5 mins)
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0.2: An introduction to courses from the Interaction Design Foundation (37 mins)
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0.3: Let our community help you (1 min)
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0.4: How to Earn Your Course Certificate (15 mins)
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0.5: Meet your peers online in our discussion forums (6 mins)
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0.6: Meet and learn from design professionals in your area (1 min)
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0.7: Gain Timeless Knowledge Through Courses From the Interaction Design Foundation (21 mins)
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0.8: Mandatory vs. Optional Lesson Items (7 mins)
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0.9: A Mix Between Video-Based and Text-Based Lesson Content (8 mins)
Lesson 1: Starting your UX career – What is UX and What do UX Designers do?
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1.1: Welcome and Introduction (8 mins)
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1.2: What is UX Design? (45 mins)
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1.3: Why is UX Design so Important (16 mins)
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1.4: 7 Key Factors of UX (21 mins)
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1.5: Basics of Interaction Design (25 mins)
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1.6: An Introduction to Usability (20 mins)
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1.7: What is a UX Portfolio? (25 mins)
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1.8: 7 UX Deliverables: What will I be making as a UX designer? (39 mins)
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1.9: How to adopt the right attitude towards your UX work (19 mins)
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1.10: What Skills do UX Hirers Look for in an Applicant. Interview with UX lead at Google, Stephen Gay (41 mins)
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1.11: Discussion forum (6 mins)
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1.12: Learning More About UX Design (8 mins)
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1.13: Congratulations and Recap (6 mins)
Lesson 2: Top strategies to help you tackle UX design projects
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2.1: Welcome and Introduction (8 mins)
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2.2: Human Centered Design (25 mins)
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2.3: What is Design Thinking and Why Is It So Popular? (31 mins)
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2.4: Activity-Centred Design: Interaction Design Approaches (37 mins)
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2.5: How to do a Google Design Sprint (30 mins)
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2.6: Understanding users through their activities (7 mins)
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2.7: Why You Should Analyze Your Competition to Design Better Solutions and How to Do It (24 mins)
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2.8: Learning More about UX Design Strategies (17 mins)
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2.9: Home Assignment for the Next Lesson (4 mins)
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2.10: Congratulations and Recap (6 mins)
Lesson 3: How to build your first UX design from start to finish, part 1: Empathize and Define
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3.1: Welcome and Introduction (7 mins)
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3.2: 5 Stages in the Interaction Design Process (32 mins)
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3.3: Learn to Prioritize in Your Interaction Design Process (22 mins)
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3.4: Stage 1 in the Design Thinking Process: Empathise with Your Users (28 mins)
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3.5: Pros and Cons of Conducting User Interviews (1 hour 17 mins)
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3.6: Personas (45 mins)
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3.7: Using Personas to Build User Empathy (7 mins)
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3.8: Customer Journey Maps - Walking a Mile in Your Customer’s Shoes (15 mins)
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3.9: Exercise: Building customer journey maps (7 mins)
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3.10: Discussion Forum (6 mins)
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3.11: Congratulations and Recap (27 mins)
Lesson 4: How to build your first UX design from start to finish, part 2: Ideate, Prototype, and Test
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4.1: Welcome and Introduction (6 mins)
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4.2: Learn How to Use the Best Ideation Methods: SCAMPER (22 mins)
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4.3: Learn How to Use the Best Ideation Methods: Analogies (15 mins)
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4.4: Exercise - SCAMPER (7 mins)
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4.5: Why You Need to Prototype and How to Start off Right (21 mins)
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4.6: Paper Prototyping (12 mins)
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4.7: Exercise – Building a low-fidelity paper prototype (8 mins)
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4.8: 4 Types of Evaluation (30 mins)
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4.9: Expert Evaluation (24 mins)
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4.10: Discussion forum (7 mins)
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4.11: Home Assignment – User Evaluation (15 mins)
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4.12: Learning More About Designing a Website or an App (15 mins)
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4.13: Congratulations and Recap (6 mins)
Lesson 5: Create your first UX portfolio and wrap up
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5.1: Welcome and Introduction (2 mins)
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5.2: 3 Reasons Why You Should Have a UX Design Portfolio (15 mins)
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5.3: Learn How to Create Your First UX Portfolio (2 mins)
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5.4: Wrap-Up and Where to Go From Here (10 mins)
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5.5: Make Use of Our Local Groups to Build Your Professional Network (5 mins)
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5.6: Congratulations and Recap (9 mins)
Lesson 6: Course Certificate and Final Networking
Learning Paths
This course is part of 2 learning paths:
How Others Have Benefited
Seth Lemon, United States
“The lessons are clear and easy to understand. The content in the lessons are thoroughly explained, and there's a good balance between video content vs. text content. This really is a intro or UX 101 course, which I really appreciated.”

Prudhvi Raj Midasala, India
“The strength of this course is its content and the way all the lessons are organized. The experience the instructors possess is also a huge advantage to the course and its members in understanding the design methods effectively.”

Barbara-Anne Tane, Australia
“The course has given me a great overview of the foundation of UX design, the processes, players and understanding of the expectations of / on designers.”
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