Courses in User Experience Training

UX for Project Managers

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 valuable learning program oriented at project managers and team leads. The learning is focused on providing a high level overview of user experience (UX). It will include classroom instruction on all four fundamental areas of UX design: learning about users, understanding users, building prototypes, and testing interfaces. Our focus is on helping project managers better understand what their team is doing and how they are doing it. By understanding design thinking and tactics they will be better able to manage their project's velocity and outcomes.

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?

• Project Managers
• Scrum Masters
• Product Managers
• Product Marketing Managers

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.

Curriculum

Session 1

Introduction

• UX Basics
• Understanding the User
• Development Methodologies from a UX perspective
• GROUP EXERCISE
• Definitions of UX
• UX vs UI
• Information Architecture vs Interaction Design vs Visual Design
• Site Maps, Wireframes, and Prototypes Oh My!
• -- Break --
• Learning About Users
• Research 101
• Planning, Execution, Reporting
• Methodologies
• Requirements that Work
• Stories, Scenarios or Flows?

Session 2

Product Design

• Secret Sauce for Success: Rapid Design Labs (RDL)
• What is an RDL?
• Ground Rules
• Prototyping
• What is a Prototype?
• Why Prototype?
• Prototyping Tools
• Best Practices
• -- Break --
• Validation Testing
• UX and Sustainability
• Design Frameworks & Pattern Libraries
• Process Design
• Product Management and User Value

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 24, 26 (8 hours of classes)	$800	Register Now
May 15, 17 (8 hours of classes)	$800	Register Now