Design thinking can help you save time and find more creative solutions to your customer needs. Learn how to implement a design thinking process at your company, with this practical guide from user experience expert Chris Nodder. Follow along with a sample project—a trail maintenance app—as it goes through a one-week design thinking process. Watch the development team use design thinking to turn new ideas into a testable concept and full-featured product. Along the way, you'll learn who should be involved, what activities you need to perform, and how to observe users, come up with great ideas, test solutions with prototypes, and plan development. Plus, discover how to avoid the common issues that can get in the way of a successful design thinking session, and the traps that people fall into when using the process for the first time. Topics include: Assembling a team Finding a location Watching real users Mapping the customer journey Identifying pain points Coming up with good ideas Testing ideas with real customers Planning development Understanding the benefits of design thinking Apply for this course

Curious about design thinking? It's the design methodology on everyone's mind. Design thinking can help you save time and find more creative solutions to your customers' needs. In this course, Chris Nodder explains where design thinking fits into product development and what it can help you achieve. He describes each step in the process, from identifying the problem you want to solve and brainstorming solutions, to prototyping, development, and release. Learn about the pros and cons of this approach and how to overcome challenges such as organization inertia and silos. Done right, design thinking can start your organization moving toward broader user-centered design techniques such as information architecture, content testing, usability testing, and marketing research. Topics include: Agile, lean, and design thinking Preparing to sell design thinking to your organization Finding the real problem Ideation Prototyping Correcting course Offshoring and outsourcing Getting past organizational inertia and silos Tracking your success Apply for this course

If you’ve completed a few Camtasia projects and have a firm grasp on the fundamentals, take your skill set up a notch with this advanced techniques course. Instructor and elearning expert Corbin Anderson dives into Camtasia to help you expand your elearning and editing skills. Corbin explores concepts like optimizing your workflow, advanced editing techniques, fixing cursor jumps, customizing masks, and sharing your project. He also provides techniques to increase visual appeal with advanced uses of objects and graphics, and takes a look at some interactive elements that can be added to your Camtasia presentations. Deze cursus is enkel beschikbaar in het Engels. Als dit voor u geen probleem vormt, dien dan gerust uw aanvraag in. This course is in French only. If this is not a problem for you, by all means go ahead and apply. Apply for this course

Adobe XD est devenu une application incontournable pour les designers web et d'applications ainsi que pour les spécialistes UI-UX. Si vous souhaitez créer des prototypes des plus simples au plus graphiquement sophistiqués, découvrez ce cours sur cet outil d'UI-UX design. Didier Mazier, spécialiste en communication digitale, vous explique comment concevoir simplement vos interfaces, gérer des interactions et des animations, exploiter toutes les fonctions de partage et de publication, etc. Ainsi, vous conforterez votre expertise de concepteur UI-UX et vous pourrez vous placer au cœur du processus de conception collaborative. Deze cursus is enkel beschikbaar in het Frans. Als dit voor u geen probleem vormt, dien dan gerust uw aanvraag in. This course is in French only. If this is not a problem for you, by all means go ahead and apply. Apply for this course

A modern user experience designer understands modern design concepts. They also have the research and analysis skills to design effective, compelling digital experiences across different mobile platforms, the web, and the Internet of things. This path will help you build the foundation for a solid career in UX design. Learn and apply the principles of user centered design. Create wireframes and graphics with industry standard tools like Illustrator and Sketch. Build a UX portfolio that includes interactive prototypes, user personas, and more. Apply for this course

User-centered design (UCD) artifacts aren't just for the visual aspect of design. In this final installment of UX Design Techniques—a series designed to teach you how to make your development process more user centered—learn how to use artifacts from each of the UCD techniques to help plan the implementation of your design.Implementation planning happens at the end of the initial UCD cycle. First, you observe users, and then you create an experience map to extract pain points, goals, and personas. This gives you the information needed to do ideation exercises. After ideation, bring things back to reality by creating scenarios, which you use to build a prototype UI for planning purposes. By investing time in these UCD activities, you'll enter the development phase of your project with a much better understanding of what you need to build to delight your users. Having a set of measurable goals and a prototype interface makes it easier to plan your implementation and set interim deliverables that you know will deliver value to your users. Apply for this course

Work smarter and faster with Adobe Illustrator to design your next web or app project, starting with wireframes. Brian Wood shows how, in this course, building upon what you already know—making shapes, working with layers, and using guides—and focusing on the features needed to effectively work with text, symbols, libraries, and a lot more. Brian demonstrates how to set up your artboards and use grids, masks, and styles to fulfill common UX design needs, from organizing content and buttons to making a layout responsive. He concludes by taking you through the export process. Apply for this course

Although you have a number of design tools available to you for your numerous UX projects, oftentimes, the tool you already have and the tool you already know is the best tool for the job. This course shows how to quickly create wireframes, flowcharts, and pixel-perfect mockups in Photoshop. Learn how to use artboards, guides, Creative Cloud libraries, and more to make layouts and generate exports that convey fluid app experiences. Join Dennis Meyer as he shows you how to set up your project, create a static wireframe, export your designs, and leverage UI kits to create pixel-perfect mockups. Apply for this course

The best UX design tools are nimble, collaborative, and efficient—just like Sketch. Learn how to use this popular, vector-based app to craft your own compelling user experiences for digital devices and screens. In this course, Shauna Bybee walks through the design process for an example mobile app, taking you step by step through each phase in the Sketch workflow. Learn how to create a wireframe to visualize your concept using the shape, text, and graphics tools; build reusable symbols; and incorporate styles and visual effects. Shauna then shows how to transform your design into a clickable prototype that can be viewed directly on a mobile device. Finally, learn how to export your assets and generate style guides and design systems to keep your products consistent and designs in sync. Along the way, Shauna introduces a variety of helpful plugins and companion software—like Sketch Measure, Zeplin, Zeroheight, and InVision—that will expand how you work and collaborate with Sketch. Apply for this course

In this installment of UX Design Techniques, learn how to make paper prototypes so you can validate your ideas before you write any code. This method of prototyping is fast and inexpensive, allowing you to test design ideas early using simple materials: paper, Post-it notes, index cards, and Sharpies. Chris Nodder takes you through the process, including making separate sketches of each interface element, highlighting areas where there would be interaction between a system and a user, and then running through user testing so you can observe the user's experience, reposition elements, and make adjustments. Apply for this course

Scenarios and storyboards provide a reality check for your designs, helping you identify design gaps and articulate exactly what features you need to build to make users happy. This course shows how to use these tools to map the concepts generated during the ideation phase of UX design to a user's real-world tasks. Author Chris Nodder explains how to write scenarios and transform them into visual storyboards that show elements that are hard to describe with words alone, such as emotion, action, detail, and progression.By the end, you'll have clear documentation to lead you through prototyping and implementation. Explore these phases and more in UX Design Techniques series on Chris's author page. Apply for this course

Ideation helps your team generate a lot of different design ideas in a short amount of time. In UX design, your first idea is seldom your best. A broad set of ideas is more likely to lead to a more creative, more satisfactory solution for your users. The ideation phase of UX design is where you consider all the different ways you could possibly fix your users' pain points, and then narrow down to some practical, viable alternatives.In this installment of UX Design Techniques, Chris Nodder explores a variety of ideation techniques. Chris explains how to brainstorm in a way that lets all members of a team, not just the designers, contribute to a product's overall direction. Apply for this course

Understanding how to design for multiple devices is now a required skill for UX designers. Modern users will want to access your website or app on a variety of different platforms. As a result, it's your job to ensure that your app performs elegantly and consistently from device to device: from phones and tablets to wearable tech. In this course, join instructor Diane Cronenwett as she explains how to create interfaces that work flawlessly on any platform. Diane shares how to plan your efforts before you even start your multidevice project, to ensure that you're prepared for success. She covers how to approach UX design for watches, TVs, and voice interfaces. Plus, she shares how to design a mobile experience in Sketch, use different frameworks and guidelines for UX multidevice design projects, and more. Apply for this course

Prototyping allows designers to quickly and inexpensively explore multiple iterations of designs. Prototypes can be submitted for testing and feedback, leading to better experiences for the business and for users. That's why prototyping is a fundamental skill for any UX designer.Explore the benefits, techniques, and tools of prototyping in this introductory course with designer Diane Cronenwett. Diane covers the basics of building effective prototypes with the right "fidelity," and getting more valuable feedback from your design testing. Learn how to build simple, satisfying prototypes on paper, and use digital prototyping tools like Moqups, InVision, and Axure to add interactivity and animation. Apply for this course

Who are you developing for? How will they use your design? Building user personas can answer these important questions. In this course, Chris Nodder shows you how to create personas using information about the users most relevant to your business. He shows you how to gather and use data from interactions and site visits to define groups that represent a picture of your user types. These personas can help drive development and make sure your team is designing your product, application, or website with the same customer in mind, resulting in coherent, focused goals and an optimal user experience. Apply for this course

Who are your users? What are their challenges? How can your design solve their needs? UX research can help you answer these questions, and many more. In this installment of UX Design Techniques, Chris Nodder walks through the process of acquiring user data and transforming that data into actionable project ideas. Learn how to observe users interacting with a prototype or simply performing tasks, build experience maps that depict those interactions, analyze the data, and extract ideas for new products and features. Apply for this course

Following a user-centered design technique puts you more in touch with your users' true needs, which helps you develop solutions that really work for your intended audience. The approaches described in this course help development teams pool their diverse perspectives and collaborate to understand how to turn thoughts, feelings, frustrations, and desires of users into the design for a product.Join Chris Nodder as he provides a road map to his series, UX Design Techniques. Each technique in this series builds on the data and output from the previous techniques. The user data from observations is used to identify user pain points and create personas. The pain points and personas are used during the ideation phase to create multiple possible solutions. Scenarios and storyboards take these multiple possible solutions and narrow them down to a working set, from which you build a paper prototype that you can usability test with some more representative users. At any point, you can follow the trail all the way back to data you gathered from your initial observations. Apply for this course

User experience is a rewarding career. Successful UX professionals can improve technology so that it is more efficient, effective, and satisfying for those that use it. But where does a career in UX start?In this course, UX expert Cory Lebson breaks down the sub-disciplines of user experience (the trifecta of design, research, and strategy), so you can learn about the different jobs that align with your strengths and passions. Cory helps you understand job responsibilities as well as the benefits of working full-time for a company vs. consulting or freelancing. With his guidance, you can create a more compelling resume and portfolio package and make sure that you properly brand yourself as a UX professional.This course offers focused career advice for job seekers, tips for recruiters and employers who want to better understand UX, and a necessary framework for grad/undergrad students exploring the next step in their career. Along the way, Cory highlights training in the library to build specific UX skills. Apply for this course

This course is in French only. If this is not a problem for you, by all means go ahead. Apply for this course