Work on projects, create real prototypes, and earn a full certificate in UX & UI Design in our New York State-licensed program, available full or part-time in NYC or live online.
Learn the skills to become a UX or UI Designer. This course teaches UX & UI design concepts, industry-standard tools, and research methods. You'll build a portfolio of projects and receive one-on-one mentoring to prepare for your new career.
Design mobile & web interfaces, learn graphic design fundamentals, and create a portfolio. Our UI Design Certificate includes classes in Figma, Photoshop, Illustrator, Graphic Design & UI Design.
Learn fundamental UX concepts with lectures and collaborative classroom exercises in UX Design in a Day, or pick up skills in one of the essential apps such as Figma, Adobe XD, or Sketch for creating designs and prototypes.
Learn the skills to become a UX or UI Designer. This course teaches UX & UI design concepts, industry-standard tools, and research methods. You'll build a portfolio of projects and receive one-on-one mentoring to prepare for your new career.
Get a solid understanding of Figma so you create designs for different size screens, tap into the power of reusable design components, build clickable prototypes, add animations, export graphics, and much more.
Get a solid understanding of Adobe XD so you create designs for different size screens, tap into the power of reusable design components, build clickable prototypes, add animations, export graphics, and much more.
This UX class will provide an overview of the key concepts of user experience (UX) design. Class material will be a mix of lecture, discussion, industry examples, and classroom activities. You'll leave the class with a broad understanding of how UX designers work with other team members, fundamentals of the industry, and how designers move from research insights to design concepts.
Get a solid understanding of Sketch so you create designs for different size screens, tap into the power of symbols (reusable design components), build clickable prototypes using InVision as well as Sketch’s native prototyping tools, export graphics, learn about useful plugins that make working in Sketch better, and much more.
Gain the skills to launch a career in UI design in this advanced course. Learn the fundamental UI design concepts, develop projects with Figma, and build your professional portfolio.
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In our UX classes, you’ll work as a team to solve user needs, use paper prototypes to verify assumptions, prioritize tasks based on user research, create prototypes with Sketch and InVision, and practice giving client presentations. Work on actual projects and create real prototypes in our UX Design Bootcamp, or get started in our one-day course.
“When I entered the UX Fundamentals class, I felt that I was a complete newbie to the UX field. After I finished the class, not only was I able to finish a prototype that I really love, I'm most likely going to develop it soon.”
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In our UX classes, you’ll work as a team to solve user needs, use paper prototypes to verify assumptions, prioritize tasks based on user research, create prototypes, and practice giving client presentations.
Our UX classes are all taught by user experience industry professsionals. Learn from their real-world experience and gain valuable practical knowledge.
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Before we dive into UX, let’s clarify the difference between User Experience (UX) and User Interface (UI) design. Think of UX as the experience of going on a road trip, and UI as the stop lights, signs, and lane markings that shape the events on the road. The appearance of the stop lights, signs, and lane markings each had to be designed (like the UI of a website or app), but how they all affect your driving experience defines the overall user experience (UX).
UX designers are responsible for creating a customer experience that is easy, intuitive, and anticipates the customer’s needs. UX designers are generally concerned with the total customer experience including the ease of finding information within the product and accomplishing tasks quickly, easily, and enjoyably. (UI designers focus on visual elements such as graphics, typography, color, and composition.)
The following are primary tasks of UX designers, that you would learn in our UX design classes:
A good first step for a UX designer is product and concept development, which includes researching existing users and creating user personas based on this research. A UX designer may conduct user interviews and contextual research (observing users do an activity in their usual everyday environment).
After UX designers have an initial idea of what the product should do and what the customer experience should entail, they move on to wireframes, prototypes, and mockups.
Text Bank Wireframe- iteration by Mark Congiusta. CC BY 2.0
Wireframes demonstrate where content goes, and how the app or website functions (screen by screen). Wireframes are typically drawn by hand or designed on a computer in grayscale with minimal color, text, and images. The wireframe should be detailed enough to explain the purpose of the product and also present the specific layout to achieve that purpose.
UX designers make the most changes to the layout, structure, and functionality of the product at the wireframe stage. Because designers draw wireframes by hand, the time investment and development costs are minimal. At the end of the wireframe phrase, some companies send the wireframes to developers to code the core structure of the app, while others move on to the prototype or mockup.
The prototype is an interactive representation of how the product will operate. The prototype is a functional version of the concept without code or final UI design, letting the UX designer test out ideas quickly without expensive development costs. It can demonstrate paths between pages or screens and animations within the design. UX designers may present the prototype design to a client and do user testing with it. Many of the UI decisions happen after the prototyping phase. Prototypes can be built with apps such as Adobe XD, Sketch, Photoshop, and InVision (to name just a few).
A mockup is a high-fidelity, static representation of the product. The mockup stage is where designers choose the colors, typography, etc. The mockup takes time to develop, so UX designers typically don’t get to this stage until they are sure about the features and flow of the app or website. The mockup is usually created with apps such as Adobe XD, Sketch, and Photoshop.
User testing is an important part of the UX design process. UX designers demo a prototype to prospective users, so they can understand a user’s pain points while using the product, and suggest improvements. Sometimes users won’t notice or interact with a particular button or will propose a new feature. Here are some of the different forms of usability testing:
Good communication skills are important for a UX designer. UX designers must explain a product to users in plain English, then translate customer feedback to the developers writing code, clients, digital marketers, and other stakeholders who don’t understand the technical language of design. For UX designers, the ability to communicate with individuals of differing technical expertise is essential.
UX designers make adjustments to the product based on research and user feedback. These adjustments can include changing the layout of screens and order of information, adding or removing features, and altering the interface to make the customer experience more intuitive.
Keep in mind that though UI and UX are distinct fields, they overlap and smaller companies may combine these roles. At a 10-person company, a UX or UI designer may do research, UI design, and development tasks. At a large company, UX designers may focus on a single aspect of UX (research, design, user testing, etc.) and a UI designer may focus exclusively on the visual design.
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