Courses in User Experience Training

UX for Developers

We offer comprehensive courses for technical teams looking to ensure that they cover user experience as part of their product design, development and management responsibilities. Oriented towards digital professionals, our courses are taught by experienced consultants, who have already built world-class sites and products with amazing clients.

What to expect

We are offering a challenging learning program oriented at developers. The learning is focused on providing a holistic view of user experience (UX). It will include classroom and hands on experience with all four fundamental areas of UX design: learning about users, understanding users, building prototypes, and testing interfaces. Our focus is on helping developers become awesome through integrating design thinking and tactics into their personal approach.

Our training facility features a classroom for 10, a full usability lab for testing and observation, several break out rooms for brainstorming, as well as a relaxing lounge area for less formal discussion.

Who is this course for?

• Front End Developers
• UI Developers
• Full Stack Developers
• Tech Leads
• Development Managers
• Product Team Members
• QA Team Members
• Support Team Members

How we teach

An emphasis on participatory learning and facilitated group discussion will make classes fast-paced and centred around the students’ current real world challenges and opportunities. Our last day is a full-day hackathon to use all the tools and tactics from the previous classes to create and test a real interface.

Curriculum

Session 1 - Foundation

• Introduction
• UX Basics
• Understanding the User
• Development Methodologies from a UX perspective
• GROUP EXERCISE
• -- Break --
• Definitions of UX
• UX vs UI
• Information Architecture vs Interaction Design vs Visual Design
• Site Maps, Wireframes, and Prototypes Oh My!
• Presentations 101
• TEAM EXERCISE

Session 2 - Users

• Learning About Users
• UX Basics
• Research 101
• Qualitative vs Quantitative
• Methodologies
• Observation
• Investigation
• Measurement
• -- Break --
• Anatomy of a Research Project
• Planning, Execution, Reporting
• Types of Findings
• GROUP EXERCISE

Session 3 - Requirements

• Requirements that Work
• Understanding Users
• How to Create Concept Cars
• Stories, Scenarios or Flows?
• TEAM EXERCISE
• -- Break --
• Secret Sauce for Success: Rapid Design Labs (RDL)
• What is an RDL?
• Ground Rules
• Mock RDL
• TEAM EXERCISE

Session 4 - Prototyping

• Prototyping
• What is a Prototype?
• Why Prototype?
• Prototyping Tools
• Best Practices
• INDIVIDUAL EXERCISE
• -- Break --
• Validation Testing
• UX and Sustainability
• Design Frameworks & Pattern Libraries
• Process Design
• Product Management and User Value
• GROUP EXERCISE

Session 5 - Put it into Practice

Morning

• Team Draft/Selection
• Pick a Product
• Define your Process
• -- Break --
• Talk to Users
• Define Functionality
• Conduct RDL

Afternoon

• Build Prototype
• Conduct Validation Testing
• -- Break --
• Presentation of Products

Learning Outcomes

You will understand the most important aspects of good user experience and have used key techniques through the program. You will understand the core skills and approaches needed to inject user-centred design principles into any software process. You won't be a user experience designer, but you will be a better developer, able to better recognize opportunities to improve your user-facing output.

Tuition & Course Dates

Dates	Tuition
April 16, 18, 20, 23, 25 (24 hours of classes)	$2,400	Sold Out
May 14, 16, 18, 21, 23 (24 hours of classes)	$2,400	Register Now
June 11, 13, 15, 18, 20 (24 hours of classes)	$2,400	Register Now