UX Design Classes CT

User Experience (UX) is one of the most important facets of any website, program, or app: ease of use, functionality, and navigation all come under the purview of the UX designer. The UX designer is the person chiefly responsible for the way a digital product works, and has to take into account the projected experience of every user, not just his own in the process. From concept through creation of a wireframe (i.e. a prototype), the UX designer is always at the heart of the project.

Related to UX design is User Interface (UI) design: the UI designer gives the UX designer’s product its distinctive look. Once the wireframe has been built, it’s up to the UI designer to make it look attractive and create something visually functional that enables the user to make use of the product. The two disciplines go hand-in-hand, although they’re not always done by the same person: some designers bridge the gap between the two, while some specialize in either UX or UI. Even for the last-named, knowledge of both sides of the equation is always useful to assure smooth communication on a joint project.

UX Design Careers in Connecticut

As long as there are digital products, there will be a need for UX designers and developers. The insurance capital of America and a major financial center, Connecticut will always have opportunities for people in the field who can conceptualize and bring into reality ideas for everything from websites to fintech applications. If the product isn’t intuitive and appealing to the user, it’s not going to succeed, and the person charged with that responsibility is the UX designer. He or she takes an idea and makes it workable: it’s one the most creative of technology design jobs and requires a large skill set, from the ability to intuit user needs to mastering the software that goes into building a functional digital product.

UX designers are well paid, with salaries averaging out at $104,499 in Connecticut. User experience managers are paid $85,506 per annum in the state, while front end developers make $111,239. Many Connecticuters opt to work in nearby New York City, where salaries are roughly comparable.

In-Person UX Design Classes in Connecticut

Although the opportunities for in-person live UX design classes in Connecticut aren’t many, the proximity of much of the state to New York City makes it possible for students to attend classes there. Noble Desktop, the originator of this tool, offers live classes at their midtown Manhattan location where in-person teachers instruct and interact with students directly, providing an excellent learning atmosphere.

Virtual UX Design Classes

A highly practical alternative to live in-person instruction is live virtual UX design classes that can be taken from the privacy and comfort of your own home. You won’t have to rush through traffic to get to class and you won’t have to worry about getting home afterward. Classes take place in real-time with a teacher who can answer questions and share students’ screens to help them through difficulties. More and more people are turning to online education for these reasons.

Noble Desktop offers a variety of UX design classes to suit different students’ differing needs, including a UX & UI Design Certificate program. In 72 hours of live online instruction, students are taught the essentials of all phases of the user experience and user interface design and receive a solid grounding in Sketch, the software of choice for wireframing designs, along with Photoshop and Illustrator, which can be enormously useful to designers seeking to create a more attractive and visually vivid user interface.

Students in Connecticut may also wish to avail themselves of the option of attending Noble Desktop’s classes live in New York City.

UX Design Bootcamps in Connecticut

Those dedicated to learning UX design will be interested in Noble Desktop’s virtual UX design bootcamps in Connecticut. These immersive classes prepare students for careers in the field, and are often as useful as a bachelor’s degree for jump-starting a career in the field of technology.

Noble’s UX Design Bootcamp consists of 30 hours of live online instruction that teaches the fundamentals of UX design, from concept to user engagement to the wireframe prototype. Students will also learn about the iterative process (that is, the updating of the product to ensure an increasingly optimized user experience) and client engagement.

For other virtual bootcamp options, Thinkful offers a 6-month part-time UX/UI bootcamp and Devmountain runs UX design bootcamps on both a part-time and full-time basis.

Corporate & Onsite UX Design Training in Connecticut

Are you looking for onsite corporate UX design training? Noble Desktop has you covered with a range of options to suit every organization’s needs. Live onsite classes can easily be arranged with teaching staff dispatched right to your office. Live virtual training taking place across Zoom or another teleconferencing platform of your choice can also be arranged. Corporate vouchers are also available that will enable your staff to select from Noble’s regularly scheduled offerings (volume discounts apply.) Please contact Noble for further information.