User Experience Design
BAU, Centro Universitario de Artes y Diseño de Barcelona
Key Information
Campus location
Barcelona, Spain
Languages
English
Study format
Distance Learning
Duration
6 weeks
Pace
Part time
Tuition fees
EUR 630
Application deadline
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Earliest start date
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Introduction
Learn to design unique user experiences focused on generating or improving digital business ideas.
This course is an introduction to the fundamentals of UX Design, with a strong focus on digital product design, covering all the steps from the basic UX processes, from user interviews to prototypes and usability testing. Through the course, you will be working on developing your own portfolio piece, which can be used to demonstrate your new skills immediately. Fully supported by expert mentors with access to industry leaders you will gain real-life skills to equip you for success from day one.
Method of study
Online learning, including interactive videos, assignments and prescheduled webinars, and 1:1 online sessions with mentors and industry.
In collaboration with ACCIÓ.
Curriculum
User experience fundamentals, the Double Diamond, benchmarking, stakeholder management, personas, ideation, and prioritization, storyboarding, research methods, planning and running user interviews, synthesis, affinity mapping, prototyping, wireframes, usability testing, presentations, and portfolios.
UX Design
- What is User Experience Design
- Defining UX Design
- Principles, frameworks, and tools
- Milestone: UX design challenge
Research and insights
- UX Research best practice
- Research methodologies
- User interviews
- Synthesis and insights
- Milestone: UX research and synthesis
Concept refinement
- Usability testing
- Digital synthesis
- Iterating on your design
- Creating clickable prototypes
- Milestone: Create a mid-fidelity prototype
Brief and problem definition
- Design briefs
- Creating personas
- Benchmarking
- Milestone: Design brief and persona
Concept design
- Ideation, sketching, and storyboarding
- Prioritization techniques
- Paper prototyping and digital wireframes
- Milestone: Create a low-fidelity prototype
Final presentation and what’s next?
- The art of storytelling
- From presentation to the portfolio
- Future of UX
- UI fundamentals for hi-fidelity designs