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With BrainStation's UX Design course, you can develop job-ready skills and earn a UX design certification that will accelerate your career in design. Learn the techniques and tools used by UX Designers, including user research, design thinking, wireframes, interactive prototyping, Figma, and more, and then complete real-world projects to add to your professional UX design portfolio.
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BrainStation made all the difference... I applied the same design framework we learned in class to multiple passion projects and freelance gigs for over a year after I finished the course.
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Learn UX Design Online
BrainStation’s UX Design courses will help you build job-ready UX fundamentals, including the techniques and tools UX Designers use to create an exceptional user experience. In this course, discover the UX design process and project management best practices, and learn how to conduct user research, create wireframes, and apply user-centered design principles to create experience-focused digital solutions.
Learn UX Design Online
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Build UX Design Skills
Ideal for learners looking to upskill.
Get Ready for a UX Design Job
Build an interview-ready portfolio project.
UX Design Professional Certification
Earn a BrainStation UX Design Certificate.
UX Design Courses
Ready to start learning UX design skills? BrainStation’s UX Design courses are available online or in-person at any of BrainStation’s campuses around the world. See below for a list of upcoming UX Design courses.
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Unit 1
Intro to UX Research & Strategy
To ensure you're setting yourself up for success as a UX Designer, BrainStation’s UX design courses begin with an introduction to user experience design that covers foundational web design concepts and the importance of UX research and strategy. Learn the basics of project management, design thinking, the design process, and user-centered design, which are critical UX design skills that will inform your work. You will also learn how to conduct effective user research and develop user personas based on the insights you’ve gathered.
- Key Skills:
- Design Thinking
- User Research
- UX Personas
- UX Research & Planning
Apply Design Thinking
Learn and apply Design Thinking and human-centered design principles: two essential frameworks for any aspiring UX designer.
Perform Effective User Research
The foundation of great design is an excellent understanding of your users. Learn how UX designers perform research and usability testing to set you up for success.
Develop User Personas That Work
Learn to combine your user data into user personas that allow you and your team to empathize with users and create UX designs that serve them.
Unit 2
Structuring & Planning Design Solutions
With a strong understanding of your users, you’re ready to begin structuring your solution. Learn the tools to accelerate your workflow, including card sorting, tree testing, and more, through hands-on projects designed to help you begin building useful wireflows to explore solutions and demonstrate them to others. Explore interaction design and, by applying an iterative approach as part of your design process, you’ll be on the path of great UX designers.
- Key Skills:
- Information Architecture
- Content Audits
- User & Task Flows
- Sketching
- Interaction Design
Build Information Architecture
Learn how to perform a content audit and leverage it to create an information architecture – an important step for any great user experience design. Gain knowledge of hierarchy and relationship mapping to help you organize information to improve both your design and the user experience.
Learn and Apply Design Exercises
Learn tools like card sorting and tree testing: common design exercises that help you explore potential solutions and take your first steps toward an effective design.
Apply an Iterative Design Process
Discover best practices with user flows and wireflows. Learn how a UX Designer uses these helpful tools, which will allow you to explore potential solutions and iterate toward a great user experience.
Unit 3
High-Fidelity Design
Iterative design means developing higher-fidelity designs as concepts are demonstrated and tested. Get hands-on practice creating wireframes of different fidelities, and use them to build interactive prototypes to test the user experience you've designed. Learn the basics of user interface design to understand how to convert your wireframes into full-fidelity final designs.
- Key Skills:
- Interactive Prototyping
- Wireframing
- Visual Design
- Interface Design
Create Wireframes
Learn how to create low-fidelity wireframes and iterate on them until you have high-fidelity concepts for your UX design.
Build Interactive Prototypes to See Your Designs in Action
Using industry-standard tools, build interactive prototypes that allow you to click through your wireframe concepts and experience your design first-hand.
Discover UI Design Fundamentals
Understand the role user interface design plays in a digital experience, and explore fundamental UI concepts including grids, typography, type hierarchy, and style guides.
Unit 4
Elevating & Communicating Design Solutions
To complete the UX Design course, learn the core components of usability and how to complete user testing throughout the UX design process. Explore accessibility principles and how to create inclusive designs.
- Key Skills:
- Usability
- User Testing
- Heuristics
- Design Systems
- Accessibility
- Design Presentations
- Usability Design
Usability Design
Discover the core components of usability and the 10 usability heuristics for user interface design. Learn how to complete usability testing throughout each stage of the user experience process to support the iterative development of your designs.
Accessibility Design
Accessibility ensures designs are inclusive. Learn the role design plays in creating an accessible user experience by understanding the diversity of abilities; such as auditory, cognitive, physical, and more; and use this understanding to inform your designs.
UX Design Course Instructors
Instructors in BrainStation’s UX design courses are experienced User Experience Designers who work at the world's most innovative companies. In our UX design classes, you’ll learn from experts who have years of experience and who know the in-demand skills companies around the world are looking for.
Mina Bach
UX/UI Designer at IBM
Joy Sampoonachot
Product Designer at Facebook
Christine Ko
Sr. Interaction Designer at Google
Jacopo Marcantonio
Group Design Lead at Wise
Rose Matsa
Senior Interaction Designer at Google
Ricardo Vazquez
Sr. Manager, Product Design at Wealthsimple
Joy Sampoonachot
Product Designer at Facebook
Christine Ko
Sr. Interaction Designer at Google
Jacopo Marcantonio
Group Design Lead at Wise
Rose Matsa
Senior Interaction Designer at Google
Ricardo Vazquez
Sr. Manager, Product Design at Wealthsimple
Industry-Led UX Design Training
BrainStation partners with industry experts when building all of our UX design courses, ensuring every course covers the latest industry-relevant topics and tools businesses need. We continue to work with our network of experts to update our courses so they're always up to date.
Build Your Professional UX Design Portfolio
Showcase everything you've learned with a real-world UX design portfolio project by creating an interactive prototype for a solution of your choosing. Every week, you'll be provided with clear steps to iteratively develop your final UX design project. By the end of the course, you'll have created a highly usable, functional, and delightful solution and be able to present your UX design strategy and process.
View Tuition, Financing Options, and More in the Course Package
View the Course Package to access:
- Tuition details and scholarships
- Financing options
- Employer sponsorship
Earn a BrainStation UX Design Certificate
Upon completing BrainStation's UX Design Course, you'll receive an industry-recognized professional certificate to share with your network and showcase all that you've learned. BrainStation certificates are formatted for sharing on LinkedIn.
Learn in our Next-Gen Online Classroom
Instructor-Led, Live Online Courses, From the Comfort of Your Home
In all our online courses, learn from BrainStation's industry-expert instructors through real-time, interactive classes in an engaging classroom environment.
Interactive, Project-Based Learning
Join breakout room sessions in smaller teams as part of the hands-on projects in our online courses, where you will collaborate and learn together.
Community Beyond the Classroom
During your online course, engage with your classmates and instructors in BrainStation’s Slack community, where you’ll receive updates and support. Stay connected and in the loop throughout your online course.
What Our Graduates Are Saying
Dylan Hebb
Senior Consultant at Content Bloom
When you take a BrainStation course, you're learning with some of the very best in the industry. You collaborate with product managers, digital strategists, UX designers, and all kinds of other backgrounds.
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Andrew Gosine
Product Designer
Our instructor... was clear, detail oriented, and made the learning environment safe and collaborative. We got a lot of real world examples from him, and all the little details he shared made this entire course special, and more than simply reading a textbook.
Overall, I'm a big advocate for Brainstation's courses - they've proved to be extremely valuable in my career.
Angie Kwan
Product Designer at Uber Eats
The highlight for me was the moment when it clicked that I definitely wanted to pursue design – it was 3:00 AM, while I was sitting in my bed, furiously working away in Sketch on my final project. I realized I was doing all of this work purely out of my own free will because I was passionate about it... These projects helped me build a strong portfolio to land the job I dreamed of.
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Andaleeb Rizwan
Graphic Designer
Brainstation's UX Design course gave me the complete understanding of the field of UX which I was looking to get... The structure was friendly and the instructors were very helpful with explaining concepts, giving real world examples and answering questions during class and later, on Slack. If you're looking for a good understanding of UX, this course is it!
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UX Design Certification FAQs
Will I earn a UX design certificate from this course?
Yes, when you complete the UX Design course, you'll earn a BrainStation UX Design certificate. UX course certificates can boost your LinkedIn profile and resume, helping you stand out in the job market to potential employers when applying for UX, UI, and user research job openings. A UX Design certification can help your job search regardless of if you're looking for an entry-level job or more, and can help you build your professional network.
What payment options do you offer for UX design courses?
BrainStation offers some of the most competitive payment options for UX design training, with a range of flexible plans and scholarship opportunities.
These include:
- Monthly payment installments
Allowing you to split your tuition into smaller monthly payments.
- Employer sponsorship
Get your tuition reimbursed by your employer.
- Scholarships
We offer a range of scholarships to make learning UX design more accessible.
- Monthly payment installments
Are there any prerequisites for this UX Design course?
BrainStation's UX Design course was created for those who are new to UI or UX design, and can be considered beginner-friendly. There are no set prerequisites for this course.
Do you need a UX Design background to take this course?
By enrolling in the UX Design course, whether it's an online UX design course or on-campus, you can expect to learn from an Instructor with experience in the UX and UI design field, and to collaborate with like-minded, ambitious professionals keen to boost their UX design skills.
From an educational point of view, 80 percent of learners at BrainStation have a post-secondary education, with 20 percent having earned a Master's degree or PhD.
Professional backgrounds vary quite a bit, as an increasing amount of individuals – from development to marketing – are looking to add design know-how to boost their career toolkit.
What UX design tools will we learn in BrainStation’s UX Design course?
Throughout the UX Design course, you will learn to work with UX design tools that will take your digital design skills to the next level.
This course is primarily centered around Figma which is an industry-leading design tool used by some of the world’s most innovative organizations. Figma is flexible and collaborative, allowing users to work together in real-time on designs. It can support low-fidelity to high-fidelity designs, help with prototyping and more.
You’ll also gain exposure to other helpful design tools for color and accessibility. Working with these tools and developing familiarity with Figma will help prepare you with a strong foundation for your UX design learning path.
Can I take this course online?
Yes, you can take BrainStation's UX Design course online.
BrainStation's online UX Design courses are taught by leading industry experts in a live, interactive classroom environment. Our project-based online course encourages collaboration and communication between classmates, who work together on cross-disciplinary teams to create real-life projects that eventually become the basis of their professional portfolio.
Students in our online UX design courses stay in touch with each other and instructors alike through BrainStation's industry-leading student learning platform, as well as a lively Slack community, which provides support and updates even beyond graduation.
How long are BrainStation's UX Design courses?
BrainStation's UX design course is typically 4 - 8 weeks long depending on the delivery format, as students can choose whether to take courses on weekends or evenings.
In that time, you will master core UX concepts, learn how to guide the UX design process from the initial UX research phase all the way to product launch, and ultimately complete hands-on projects designed to build the kind of professional portfolio UX Designers need.
UX Design Basics
What Is the Difference Between UI and UX design?
UX design is the craft of making a user's experience as effective, efficient, and pleasant as possible, especially when interacting with digital products. UI design, on the other hand, refers to all the visual design elements the users of a website, mobile apps, or piece of software (or mobile device, or even appliance) interact with.
Essentially, UX design refers to the process of designing products with the user in mind. UX design has proven critical in mobile app design, smart watches, and even physical objects.
The "UI" in "UI design" stands for "user interface." UI design, therefore, has a narrower focus than UX design, which concerns a user's entire journey from beginning to end. These two specialties must work seamlessly together to create a strong user experience.
What Can I Learn in a UX Design Course?
In a UX design course, you can learn the fundamentals of the user experience design process, how to leverage UX research, personas, and design thinking to address user problems and to create a user-centered design, and how to use a variety of UX tools to improve, elevate, and communicate those designs.
A UX design curriculum should begin by teaching you how to effectively conduct user research by learning more about your users, building user personas, and developing a design strategy. The best UX design certificate programs will then teach how to leverage top UX tools for creating wireframes, building interactive prototypes, and using user interface design techniques to convert those wireframes into final designs.
Finally, you should then learn how to conduct usability testing and how to ensure that designs meet accessibility standards.
What Are the Most In-Demand UX Design Jobs?
Some of the most in-demand UX design jobs include UX Designer, UI Designer, UX Researcher, Product Designer, Visual Designer, Interaction Designer, Motion Designer, Information Architect, UX Writer, and UX Engineer.
In fact, most jobs relating to user experience design are in high demand — a LinkedIn study recently ranked UX design skills among the top most sought-after on the job market.
UX design skills and concepts are also key to a variety of related disciplines, including user interface design, interaction design, graphic design, product management, business analysis, web design, and web development.
What Is the Best Way to Learn UX Design?
The best way to learn UX design is to complete a UX design course or bootcamp. With BrainStation's UX design course, for example, you can gain first-hand experience with the skills, techniques, tools, and processes that you would need for a UX career while being led by Instructors who are also experienced industry professionals.
Compared to trying to learn UX at your own pace, a formal UX design program will ensure you master foundational concepts, technical tools, and UX processes according to current industry best practices.
To complement a UX course, you could also explore books, podcasts, and blogs on user experience design, follow top industry experts and influencers on social media, and explore online communities of professional designers.
How Can I Get Into UX Design?
To get into UX design, you should build UX fundamentals and learn to use key tools for UX design, consider gaining formal training through UX courses, work on your own UX design projects to build your professional UX portfolio, and finally look for freelance design work, internships, or postings for entry-level UX Designers.
UX certification is designed to cover the latest tactics, tools, and strategies that aspiring UX professionals need. A professional certificate program in UX will cover the key tools, techniques, and knowledge areas needed for a UX design career, and will also help show employers both you not only possess the skills they need, but also the drive of a continuous learner.
Certificate courses in UX design should help you build a UX portfolio of real-world projects, which you can then develop further by seeking out freelance work. Depending on your professional situation and background, you might also begin looking for UX internships or entry-level design jobs.
What Is the Best Way to Stay on Top of UX Design Trends?
The best way to stay on top of UX design trends is to stay active on social media, follow top design blogs and influencers, and proactively network with other UX Designers as well as professionals outside your industry.
Keeping up with trends is particularly important in the fast-changing world of UX design, where best practices change often, innovative features are constantly introduced, and new personalization options open up. Reading industry blogs, email newsletters, and other free UX design resources will help you build your UX expertise while keeping an eye on general design trends. If you are a UX Designer for a dedicated company, also be sure to watch what the competition is up to and make sure that your designs measure up.
Networking with colleagues is another essential part of keeping up with UX trends. BrainStation regularly holds panel discussions with top industry experts, thought leadership events, and other networking gatherings to give students opportunities to build their professional networks while also discussing the most current trends and issues in their fields.
What Skills Should I Learn for a UX Design Career?
Top skills you should learn for a UX design career include wireframing and prototyping, persona development, usability studies, visual design, user interface design, information architecture, and responsive web design.
Research skills are also crucial — not just conducting user research, which is of course integral to the UX design process, but also developing a research strategy that includes extensive market research, design research, and concept exploration.
In addition to the technical, job ready skills required by UX design job roles, UX Designers also need a well-developed set of soft skills, including empathy, collaboration, communication, and project management.
Why Is This the Best UX Design Course for Me?
BrainStation's UX Design Course is the best UX program because our hands-on, project-based learning experience gives students real-world design experience. The course’s innovative curriculum covers the most current-possible best practices for creating great user experiences, and our live online courses are led by experienced professionals with a thorough understanding of what it takes to succeed as a UX Designer.
BrainStation's UX design certification course is ideal for learners looking to boost their skills, either to establish a new career or to gain skills that would be valuable to a number of related fields, including web development, product management, graphic design, and marketing.
To then help students leverage their new UX expertise to meet their professional goals, BrainStation offers networking opportunities, thought leadership events, and panel discussions featuring experts from our global hiring partner network of top companies.
UI Design
UI design is the process of creating full-fidelity designs. In this course, you'll go deeper on concepts like color theory, typography, and more. When taken alongside BrainStation's UX Design Course, you will be one step closer to having the skills of a full-stack designer.
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Design Thinking
This hands-on course allows you to experience the design thinking process through an iterative series of exercises that will prepare you to apply Design Thinking to a wide range of challenges. Design Thinking has emerged as an essential tool for all kinds of designers, and complements the material covered in BrainStation's UX Design course.
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