Free UX Design Course

Get ready to embark on your UX design journey. You'll peek into the lives of real designers, apply new skills to an end-to-end design project, and learn how to use best-in-class design tools like Sketch and Figma. All of these activities are in service of the course goals, which include: 

• Introducing you to the ins and outs of the design industry, including the processes designers follow and the tools they use

• Helping you determine if design is the right career path for you

Ready to kick off your exploration of the world of design? This subunit will introduce you to UX design, UI design, and the differences between the two. As you work, pay attention to the kind of design you find most interesting as most designers specialize in either UX or UI. Units include:

• Design 101

• What is the UX design process?

• Understanding the differences between UX and UI

The design thinking process is a series of stages you must work through to complete any design project, and include: Empathize, Define, Ideate, Prototype, and Test.

You'll learn all about each of these stages during this subunit. However, it’s crucial to note that this process is not linear. It’s important to understand the principles related to each stage so that you can draw on them throughout your work on a particular project. Units include:

• What is design thinking?

• Design thinking 101

The goal of this subunit is to get you started with one of the two most popular tools UI/UX designers use to build products: Figma and Sketch. While there are a wide variety of tools used in this industry, Sketch and Figma are industry standards. You’ll only need to learn how to use one of these tools while working on this course. Units include:

• Hands on work with Sketch and Figma

• 20 great UX design tools

To design a high-quality product, you’ll first need to spend some time thinking outside the box and brainstorming possible solutions. That’s where ideation comes in.

Ideating solutions is the process of brainstorming an array of ideas and identifying the ideas that might be best while still allowing for the possibility that you’ll need to adapt those ideas as you begin working on your designs. Units include:

• Sketching

• Identifying and using design patterns

• Wireframing

Prototyping is a critical step in the UX design process. It allows designers to test and validate their ideas with users quickly, uncover potential usability issues, and provide insights needed to refine the user interface. Units include:

• How to prototype using Figma or Sketch

• How to prototype using Invision

• 10 easy-to-use prototyping tools

As a quick and easy form of evaluative research, usability testing can’t be beaten. This evaluation form involves putting high-fidelity designs in front of a user and seeing how they interact with the product.

Through this interaction, the designer can identify what aspects of the design need to be improved, as well as what parts of the design the user likes or finds useful. Units include:

• Usability testing 101

• User testing: Why & how

• How to run moderated usability testing