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Berkeley Global
Delightful, intuitive and engaging user experience is integral to a company’s success. Gain the skills employers are searching for in this introductory course. You’ll study user-experience design concepts, processes and practices, including topics such as user research, personas, heuristic evaluation, information architecture, wireframing, design tools, rapid prototyping, usability assessment and design communication. You'll understand and learn how to apply user-centered design practices.
During the course of 10 weeks, you work on and then present a course project of your choosing using the UX design principles learned in class. This project serves as a cornerstone of your portfolio showcasing end-to-end design thinking.
Prerequisites:
While this entry-level course is suitable for people from any discipline, you must have a working knowledge of at least one of more design tools such as Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Axure or Sketch.
Course Outline
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Course Objectives
UC Berkeley Extension designs the best possible online learning experience to develop your skills, build a quality portfolio and tobecome a confident design professional.
- Understand and apply user-centered design practices
- Conduct user research, persona development, usability testing and compile results
- Convey design choices through visual and written assets including site maps, user flows, wireframes and prototypes
- Apply UX/UI design principles through team assignments, collaborating with other design students on design critiques and team presentations.
What You Learn
Learn the life cycle of an UX project, including design concepts such as UX design principles, user research, wireframing, interaction design, prototyping and user testing. Then, use those findings to iterate your design to adopt the end user’s feedback into your final product.- User-centered design process
- Competitive analysis
- Stakeholder interview
- Interaction design
- Communicating design
- Working with Agile teams
- Multiscreen design
- User research
- Usability testing and assessment
- Business goals and stakeholder requirements
- Contextual inquiry
- Waterfall and Agile methodologies
- Persona development
- Affinity diagrams
- Heuristic evaluation
- Storyboarding
- UI design elements
- Wireframing
- Paper prototyping
- Rapid prototyping
- Information architecture
How You Learn
We are online! All of the design classes are conducted online including: video classes, mentor-led learning and peer-to-peer support through our student online platform, Canvas
- Online lectures
- Hands-on exercises
- Guest speakers in UX design
- Student presentations
- Weekly assignments and readings
- UX design project with weekly milestones and a course-end presentation
Is This Course Right for Me?
This course teaches a broad audience of professionals who are looking to deepen or develop their understanding of user-centered design tools and processes. Our experienced instructors provide practical UX design skills and monitor your development along with peer to peer support on our student online platform.
What's Next?
After completing this course, you are ready to take Diagramming and Prototyping for UX.
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Summer enrollment opens on March 20!