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UX - How to become a UX Designer

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29 lessons / 2 hours

Overview

The idea of UX, or User Experience, is not new but continues to be a sore point for designers and end users. For those who can figure it out, it pays well more than graphic design alone. And, UX design uses skills you already have. Interested? Don’t have a clue what UX Design is or where to start? We’ve got the UX design training experience that’s going to open a whole new world, and better-paying work!

UX design is creating products, most commonly apps and websites, that are easy to use, please the end user and look great. It’s understanding what the target user needs and how they get what they want. It’s how they interact with the information and how they navigate your design. The reason there’s so much demand for UX designers is that not a lot of graphic designers truly understand what’s involved. It’s more than slick graphics!

At BYOL, we’ve got years of design experience and an equally impressive number of years teaching design to real world standards. We know what UX and UI design for professional grade work require, and we know how to give you the best training and information to build you a lifelong foundation.

What are the requirements?

  • No previous UX understanding is necessary.

  • While a basic understanding of design will be needed to become a UX Designer you don’t need any of these skills to complete this course.

What am I going to get from this course?

  • You’ll learn what the relevant tools are for UX Designers.

  • You’ll find out how much a UX designer can earn.

  • You’ll learn how to research a UX project.

  • You’ll learn the difference between UI & UX.

  • You’ll learn what the responsibilities of a UX designer are.

  • You’ll be able to run your first user testing sessions.

  • You’ll know how to run competitor research.

  • You’ll learn how to build user profiles & personas.

  • You’ll learn how to create wireframes.

  • You’ll learn how to use InVision building mockups.

  • You’ll learn how to report your user testing results.

  • You’ll know how to run A/B testing.

  • + More…

What is the target audience?

  • This course is for anyone interested in becoming a UX Designer.

  • This course is especially beneficial to people who already have Graphic or Web Design skills.

  • This course is for designers who want to earn double as a senior UX designer.

Course duration approx 2hrs 40mins

Daniel Scott

Daniel Scott

Founder of Bring Your Own Laptop & Chief Instructor

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I discovered the world of design as an art student when I stumbled upon a lab full of green & blue iMac G3’s. My initial curiosity around using the computer to create ‘art’ developed into a full-blown passion, eventually leading me to become a digital designer and founder of Bring Your Own Laptop.

Sharing and teaching are a huge part of who I am. As a certified Adobe instructor, I've had the honor of winning multiple Adobe teaching awards at their annual MAX conference. I see Bring Your Own Laptop as the supportive community I wished for when I was first starting out and intimidated by design. Through teaching, I hope to bring others along for the ride and empower my students to bring their stories, labors of love, and art into the world.
True to my Kiwi roots, I've lived in many places, and currently, I reside in Ireland with my wife and kids.

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All right, so this video we can talk about the build. Okay, so we've been faking up until now, we building flats,  and then we've been adding interaction just  to kinda get the user testing going. You might have a slightly more complete website,  but it's still often at this stage you've done it quick  and dirty, and now you've gotta go and build it. Now you, if you're working at a bigger  company, you won't be building it. You'll be part of a development team  and they'll be kind of taking it over from here  and actually doing some of the building. Okay?

And they'll be able to advise you if you're working on  a smaller team or working with a project. Say you are doing the UX design for a smaller company  and they don't, you know, you've gotta really advise  them on what to do next. This is where I could potentially help. I've got a lot of experience in this area. I've wrote a lot of courses about it. There's lots of, um, lots  of my other courses on building websites now.

Um, yeah, so reach out if you do find this part,  you know, you're not too sure where to go. Tell me what your options are  and oh, you know what your tasks are  and I can tell you what your options might be. So you might be doing apps. Do I do it in Android or do it iOS? Maybe there's some sort of bridging one  where you can do it in both to get it out. Like phone gap, maybe it's a website, is it static?

Do I do it in Dreamweaver? Do it on news. Um, maybe it's needs a CMS, it needs a login  and things, so, okay. Do I use a hosted one like WordPress or LER or Drupal  or, uh, do I use a SaaS solution? sas a cool, 'cause you just log into the website  and make a website. Presto, like Shopify  or Eventbrite, they're a good SaaS solution.

So do drop me a line if you are at this build stage  and you need a little bit more advice. Um, yeah. All right, so I'll see you in the next video.
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