Learn UX design and grow your career
As a member, you can take as many courses as you want with no additional costs.
You get:
- Online and self-paced UX Design courses
- Industry-trusted Course Certificates — see an example
- Instructor-led online courses and grading by instructors
- A UX Design community where you can ask for help, discuss topics, and make connections
- UX meet-ups in your city
- UX Design career help
Don’t know where to start?
Select a job title you aspire to and get a learning path with suggested courses:
Interaction Designer Learning Path
Become a great Interaction Designer with 10 courses in 4 parts. As an Interaction Designer, you’re focused on enabling seamless and engaging user experiences. Along this learning path, you’ll pick up skills that will help you produce just that.
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Part 1: Foundation (2 courses)
These foundation courses provide an excellent introduction to UX design and are recommended for everyone.
User Experience: The Beginner’s Guide
Go to courseDesign Thinking: The Beginner's Guide
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Part 2: Interaction Designer Beginner (2 courses)
Learn the basics of interaction design and usability.
Human-Computer Interaction - HCI
Go to courseInteraction Design for Usability
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Part 3: Interaction Designer Intermediate (3 courses)
Master how to design intuitive, efficient, and universally accessible interactions for different interface types.
UI Design Patterns for Successful Software
Go to courseMobile User Experience (UX) Design
Go to courseAccessibility: How to Design for All
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Part 4: Interaction Designer Advanced (3 courses)
Learn how users understand your designs, and how to create cutting-edge interaction designs for 2D and 3D software.
Psychology of Interaction Design: The Ultimate Guide
Go to courseThe Brain and Technology: Brain Science in Interface Design
Go to courseHow to Design for Augmented and Virtual Reality
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All Available User Experience Courses
Beginner user experience courses
Intermediate user experience courses
Advanced user experience courses
UX courses re-opening in the future
Industry-trusted UX Course Certificates
TRUSTED BY THESE AMAZING COMPANIES
Our courses and Course Certificates are trusted by these industry leaders, who have taken up company memberships with the IDF:
How IDF courses work
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Attend lessons at your own pace
Each week throughout the course, you get access to a new lesson, but you can move through the lessons at your own pace. This means you can learn before you leave for work, or in between breaks — in as little as 15 minutes per day.
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Network online and offline
Network with your fellow course-takers online, through discussion forums inside the lessons. You can also connect with your peers offline via IDF’s Local Groups. Local Groups connect you with other designers around your city who share your passion for UX design.
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Advance your career
Get a verifiable and industry-trusted Course Certificate once you’ve scored at least 70% on a course. Highlight your Course Certificates on your résumé, your LinkedIn profile, or your website to showcase your newly mastered skills.
What are others saying?
Ivy League level education in UX, Product Design or Human-Computer Interaction
...an incredibly rich compendium filled with a wide variety of lessons and information
A goldmine of information on interaction design
Top-grade educational materials by the world’s technology elite... on how to make technology more people-oriented and easy-to-use.
It is an honor to be part of your organization, and I am looking forward to growing and contributing to the field, thanks to the information, courses, and advice that your organization provides.
IDF is the right place for you namely if you’re in search for the perfect balance between academic rigor and practical relevance [...] Sometimes you need more than learning. You need someone to believe in you, because motivation is more important than knowledge. Motivation is what pushes you to learn. Interaction Design Foundation is all about that.
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Well, I've started with one of the courses and felt it was fair to write once again just to say you that you are a great team of human, cognitive and pedagogy centered professionals. I'm really glad that I've become a member and have all of these tons of information for self-paced learning, the content I read it's great so far!
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What a great lesson by @farreaching on Mobile UX Design at Interaction Design Foundation!
For a while I had been looking for online interaction design courses and I am really happy I found you guys. You're doing a great job!! Thanks!
Achieved a 1st worldwide in Design Thinking class.. Great course Interaction Design Foundation
I do admire what you do, this is an amazing place!
I just graduated from university, so now I have some free time to go through the content and finish the courses :) Great work, very high quality.
I am recommending membership for IDF to everyone in this space – and everyone buys in because it so incredibly industry relevant.
Thank you for putting together such a wonderful training platform for interaction designers! It truly has university-level quality. Again, it's a fantastic effort that you have put up there, do keep it up!
I'm definitely enjoying this course so far, and looking forward to learning about the other course topics on offer. The website is an incredible resource - big thanks for making such a treasure trove of information available. All the best from London :-)
I became a member of the Foundation to learn specifically about dashboards and to improve my English language skills. But I had a great surprise when I found that I could learn so much more! The dashboard course (I think it was a Mads course) even changed my point of view about e-learning. I always thought that on line courses had a very limited grasp in learning, but the way that all the content was structured showed me that it is possible to build really good stuff in this format!
I have embarked on a new career starting with the courses on your website. I am grateful to have come across your foundation that will allow me to build a career as a designer without having to spend a fortune and feel the stress on top of what comes with other family responsibilities
I am happy with the content of this course and other contents in IDF's site. This is helping me to reinforce my knowledge and define the concepts, discovering I knew more things about UX that I expected! I am also practicing some English and that's good for me too, learning new thing is fantastic!
Interaction Design Foundation offers a fantastic catalog of UX courses. Members can take unlimited courses for free!
First of all I am very much excited joining in the course and will definitely refer my friends to go through the course. Innovative and Informative is the two terms will go with Interaction-Design.
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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Course introduction
- How much will I have to pay for the courses?
As a member, you can take as many courses as you want with no additional costs. This means you only have to pay our membership fee to take an unlimited number of courses. There are no further charges on top of the membership fee.
- Can I take more than one course at a time?
Yes, you can take as many courses as you would like. For example, if there are 30 active courses, you can enroll in all 30 courses at the same time and move from one to the other as you please.
There are no further charges once you have paid for your membership.
Please note: If you have a student membership, you can take a maximum of three courses at the same time. As a student, you can thus still take as many courses as you would like – free of extra charges – just as long as you finish them (or drop them) so that you don’t have more than three ongoing courses at the same time.
- Can I get my manager to pay for my membership?
Here is how to get your manager or company to pay for your membership:
- Get approval from your manager (e.g. using the email template below).
- Please pay with your credit card (either your own or your corporate credit card).
- Your invoice will instantly be ready — and we can modify it to meet your manager's requirements.
- You and your manager are protected by our 30-day money-back guarantee.
Example email for your manager
Dear manager,
I would like to get reimbursement for my membership of the Interaction Design Foundation (IDF). This membership can benefit our team and company in the following ways:
- I can enroll in all the IDF’s self-paced, online courses (in my spare time), which will help me complete current projects with a better result.
- I can network with peers from all over the world and find out how others have addressed issues we are currently facing.
- I will be able to continuously educate myself on UX topics through IDF's courses and eBooks. I can use my newfound knowledge to save our company from hiring someone to do certain UX tasks in the future.
- I can get a mentor from IDF’s members from companies like SAP, Google, Apple, Oracle, and universities like Stanford, MIT, Carnegie Mellon, Cambridge and many more.
- Because of the breadth of educational materials I will be able to learn how to solve specific design problems. And I can acquire new skill sets that our company is lacking.
- I would like to offer to share the key take-aways from the courses with my team.
PS: To give you some background, the Interaction Design Foundation is an educational foundation comprising the world’s design and UX elite, and you can read more about the foundation at https://www.interaction-design.org/about
- I missed the enrollment date and now the course is closed. Will I have any opportunity to take the course in the future?
Don't worry if you missed the course. We will re-run it shortly. One of the reasons we continually open and close courses is to be able to control the classroom size.
Networking is a large part of our value proposition, so we want just the right number of people inside the courses. That is also why we display the "XX % percent booked" on our course icons.
We’ll re-schedule the course and make it available for sign-up on https://www.interaction-design.org/courses in only about a week (or perhaps a little bit longer). The actual start date of the course will be a few weeks after sign-ups begin too. We’ve found that this is the best way to maximize flexibility and convenience for everyone, especially you as you put your course program together.
