Leverage AI tools to create more intuitive and engaging design, and set yourself apart as a designer equipped with the latest knowledge and skills. We've added seven new optional units to our curriculum to allow you to learn AI alongside key topics in UI/UX. New AI units include:

• Introduction to AI and Its Relevance to UX.

• AI-Enhanced User Research.

• Dynamic Persona Building and Journey Mapping with AI.

• Information Architecture and Ethical Considerations in AI.

• Designing for AI: Tools, Practices, and Usability Testing.

• Prototyping for AI: Tools for Prototyping AI-Based Systems.

• AI and Usability Testing: Adjusting Techniques for AI Systems.

• Learn how to develop a research plan.

• Study best practices for recruiting interview participants, writing screeners, and conducting interviews.

  This unit is filled with hands-on work that will help you learn the ins and outs of understanding your users. You’ll be guided through the process of setting up a research plan, learn how to recruit and screen participants, explore interview best practices to collect meaningful data, and be taught how to synthesize that data to draw insights about your user and problem space so that you can create a successful solution.
  

• Develop an understanding of design systems, as well as their value in the UI/UX industry.

• Become familiar with common components of a design system.

• Learn how to understand a company’s existing design system.

• Describe the components of a basic brand platform and understand their importance.

• Analyze how designers translate a brand platform into visual style.

• Understand how you will interact with brand platforms throughout your career.

• Develop an awareness of how logos are treated and used in UI.

Designers establish a visual language with the help of design systems and style guides. Design systems and style guides are artifacts that define the rules and representations of a product's visual language including what fonts, colors, UI elements, and imagery will be used.

Prototyping is the next step in the process of increasing the fidelity of your designs. High-fidelity prototypes — such as the prototypes you will be creating in this unit — are as close an approximation of your final product as you can get. Creating and testing prototypes is another way to identify aspects of your product that could be improved and ensure that your product meets the needs of your users.

• Learn how to create a clickable prototype.

• Understand the purpose of animation and interaction patterns within UI/UX design, including how they affect functionality, brand personality, and user delight.

• Familiarize yourself with current animation and interaction patterns and guidelines.

• For this course, you’ll focus on two main aspects of animations: The role that animation plays on a high-screen level, such as when screens transition from one to the next, and the role animation plays at a granular level within designs, such as how a dropdown menu animates when it opens.

• UX is short for User Experience. It lies and the intersection of business needs and user goals and is the process in which designers make products usable and accessible.

• UI is short for User Interaction: It ensures visual components make a product usable.

• UI designers determine the visual elements (e.g. menus, buttons, icons, etc.) used to interact with a product or service.

• UX designers control a user's overall experience of a product or service, such as an app or multi-step form.

• Wireframing, prototyping, and strong research acumen are some of the top hard skills. You’ll also need soft skills that you can develop over time: empathy to understand a users’ pain points and the ability to communicate with internal and external stakeholders, as well as a collaborative work ethic.

The Careers section above details some of the most common titles (UX Designer, UI Designer).

Graduates also pursue positions like:

• Motion Designer (avg. salary $61k-$80k): Motion designers are animation specialists and create test motion graphics, build prototypes, and are an integral part of a UX team.

• UX Researcher: (avg. salary $66k–$93k): UX researchers are at the forefront of a UX team, focusing on the very first phase of design — research. They conduct user research, create surveys, user personas, and journey maps.

• Information Architect: (avg. salary $89k–$112k): Information architects are all about navigation — making it easy for users to find information. They create journey maps and also participate in user research and interviews.

As you move up the career ladder, you’ll explore more advanced specialties or ones that require technical proficiencies, such as coding. Below are more senior-level roles:

• UX Strategist

• UX Architect

• UX Product Manager

• UX Analyst

• UX/UI Engineer

• UX/UI Developer

• Product Designer

• In as little as nine months, this UI/UX bootcamp will equip you with the technical skills needed to build an impressive UI/UX portfolio. If you are motivated to study at a faster pace, we allow you to study on your own time and finish the course earlier.

• The average UX/UI designer salary in the US is approximately $83,000 according to Glassdoor.

• Yes! The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts that jobs will grow 13% over the next 10 years.