Interaction Design for Usability

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How This Course Will Help Your Career

What You’ll Learn

  • An understanding of the basics of usability, including visual design, navigation and menu design, search engine optimization, and accessibility
  • How to design for efficiency and persuasion
  • What lean and agile processes are
  • How to integrate user-centered design into lean and agile development
  • How to make a case for user-centered design
  • How to engage the whole team in user-centered design

This course will teach you fundamental usability concepts and methods and will tie them together with interaction and visual design. By completing the course, you will become equipped with the tools required to create products with outstanding user experience and usability. Your newly acquired knowledge will also enable you to reduce the costs, risk, and time required to design and implement such products.

You’ll learn to adopt a user-centered approach to UX design and usability so you can create user-friendly products that people love to use—for example, by allowing for user errors and providing timely feedback messages. More importantly, it is crucial that your entire team—developers, project managers, and product owners alike—adopt this holistic, user-centered mindset. This course therefore aims to provide any team member with just that: it will not only equip you with fundamental usability and design concepts, but also introduce you to lean and agile processes that will allow your whole team to become design-centric.

You should take this course if you belong to a team whose goal is to create a great product—whatever role you play in that. The fact of the matter is that usability experts and UX designers are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the people who influence the design of a product. A sound understanding of user-centered design processes is thus greatly beneficial whether you’re a UX designer, developer, or a newcomer to design who wants to be part of a product team one day.

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Is This Course Right for You?

This is a beginner-level course recommended for anyone involved in building interactive systems:

  • UX, UI, and web designers keen on building interactive systems with users in mind
  • Project managers interested in keeping their products focused on the user
  • Software engineers looking to build upon their understanding of how apps, systems and websites can be built with the user in mind
  • Entrepreneurs who want to ensure their entire outlook and team remain focused on user-centered design
  • Marketers interested in incorporating a user-centered perspective across all touch-points
  • Newcomers to design who are considering making a switch to UX, UI, or web design

Courses in the Interaction Design Foundation are designed to contain comprehensive, evidence-based content, while ensuring that the learning curve is never too steep. All participants will have the opportunity to share ideas, seek help with tests, and enjoy the social aspects afforded by our open and friendly forum.

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.

This course is taught by William Hudson, a leading expert in user-centered design who consults and teaches internationally. The lessons have a practical focus but also incorporate background and theory to help you understand the more complex issues involved. On top of this, you will be able to enhance your learning through the (optional) related reading—this consisting of over 40 titles across a broad array of subjects.

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: 65 hours 15 mins spread over 19 weeks .

Lesson 0: Welcome and Introduction

Available once you start the course. Estimated time to complete: 1 hour 30 mins.

Lesson 1: User-Centered Design Boot Camp

Available once you start the course. Estimated time to complete: 4 hours 6 mins.

Lesson 2: Visual Design for Usability

Available anytime after Dec 27, 2024. Estimated time to complete: 4 hours 42 mins.

Lesson 3: Navigation & Menu Design

Available anytime after Jan 03, 2025. Estimated time to complete: 4 hours 10 mins.

Lesson 4: Designing for SEO & Accessibility

Available anytime after Jan 10, 2025. Estimated time to complete: 3 hours 38 mins.

Lesson 5: Human Error, Messages & Feedback

Available anytime after Jan 17, 2025. Estimated time to complete: 4 hours 42 mins.

Lesson 6: Usability Evaluation

Available anytime after Jan 24, 2025. Estimated time to complete: 4 hours 2 mins.

Lesson 7: User-Centred IA With Card Sorting

Available anytime after Jan 31, 2025. Estimated time to complete: 4 hours 21 mins.

Lesson 8: Dynamic Web Pages: Effective Use of Ajax

Available anytime after Feb 07, 2025. Estimated time to complete: 4 hours 34 mins.

Lesson 9: Writing Effective Web & Intranet Content

Available anytime after Feb 14, 2025. Estimated time to complete: 2 hours 54 mins.

Lesson 10: Designing for Efficiency

Available anytime after Feb 21, 2025. Estimated time to complete: 2 hours 57 mins.

Lesson 11: Persuasion, Trust and Seduction

Available anytime after Feb 28, 2025. Estimated time to complete: 3 hours 56 mins.

Lesson 12: Making the Case for UCD in Agile

Available anytime after Mar 07, 2025. Estimated time to complete: 4 hours 20 mins.

Lesson 13: Integrating UX/UCD & Agile

Available anytime after Mar 14, 2025. Estimated time to complete: 4 hours 28 mins.

Lesson 14: Agile UX: Users, Personas & Design Maps

Available anytime after Mar 21, 2025. Estimated time to complete: 4 hours 53 mins.

Lesson 15: Agile UX: Use Cases, Stories & Scenarios

Available anytime after Mar 28, 2025. Estimated time to complete: 3 hours 12 mins.

Lesson 16: Agile UX: Conceptual Models

Available anytime after Apr 04, 2025. Estimated time to complete: 2 hours 51 mins.

Lesson 17: Course Certificate, Final Networking, and Course Wrap-up

Available anytime after Apr 11, 2025.

How Others Have Benefited

April Holder

April Holder, United States

“The course had an incredible amount of depth for the cost of the course. It reminded me of taking a college course but without all the hassle of attending the lectures at the professor's preferred time. It was great to learn from an instructor who typically teaches computer science, as there were lots of little tidbits William Hudson offered that were additional to the course; he explained his way of thinking very well to make it accessible to my way of thinking (which can be quite different than his)”


Nora Szell

Nora Szell, Luxembourg

“The course was very informative, well structured and well paced as well!”


Ashish Rajak

Ashish Rajak, India

“The instructor has decades of experience in the design industry. He is really a good storyteller and mentor. I'm pleased to learn from such a person. Thank you so much, Mr. William Hudson! :)”

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