UX Design Course

With BrainStation's UX Design course, you can develop job-ready skills and earn a UX Design certification that will accelerate your career in design. Learn the techniques and tools used by UX designers, including user research, design thinking, wireframes, interactive prototyping, Figma, and more, and then complete real-world projects to add to your professional UX design portfolio.

BrainStation’s UX Design courses will help you build job-ready UX fundamentals, including the techniques and tools UX designers

Intro to UX Research and Strategy

To ensure you're setting yourself up for success as a UX Designer, BrainStation’s UX design courses begin with an introduction to user experience design that covers foundational web design concepts and the importance of UX research and strategy.

Learn the basics of project management, design thinking, the design process, and user-centered design, which are critical UX design skills that will inform your work. You will also learn how to conduct effective user research and develop user personas based on the insights you’ve gathered.

In this course, you will discover the UX design process and project management best practices and learn how to conduct user research, create wireframes, and apply user-centered design principles to create experience-focused digital solutions.

Apply Design Thinking

Learn and apply Design Thinking and human-centered design principles: two essential frameworks for any aspiring UX designer.

Perform Effective User Research

The foundation of great design is an excellent understanding of your users. Learn how UX designers perform research and usability testing to set you up for success.

Develop User Personas That Work

Learn to combine your user data into user personas that allow you and your team to empathize with users and create UX designs that serve them.

Structuring & Planning Design Solutions

With a strong understanding of your users, you’re ready to begin structuring your solution. Learn the tools to accelerate your workflow, including card sorting, tree testing, and more, through hands-on projects designed to help you begin building useful wireflows to explore solutions and demonstrate them to others. Explore interaction design and, by applying an iterative approach as part of your design process, you’ll be on the path of great UX designers.

Build Information Architecture

Learn how to perform a content audit and leverage it to create an information architecture—an important step for any great user experience design. Gain knowledge of hierarchy and relationship mapping to help you organize information to improve both your design and the user experience.

Learn and Apply Design Exercises

Learn tools like card sorting and tree testing: common design exercises that help you explore potential solutions and take your first steps toward an effective design.

Apply an Iterative Design Process

Discover best practices with user flows and wireflows. Learn how a UX Designer uses these helpful tools, which will allow you to explore potential solutions and iterate toward a great user experience.

High-Fidelity Design

Iterative design means developing higher-fidelity designs as concepts are demonstrated and tested. Get hands-on practice creating wireframes of different fidelities, and use them to build interactive prototypes to test the user experience you've designed. Learn the basics of user interface design to understand how to convert your wireframes into full-fidelity final designs.

Create Wireframes

Learn how to create low-fidelity wireframes and iterate on them until you have high-fidelity concepts for your UX design.

Build Interactive Prototypes to See Your Designs in Action

Using industry-standard tools, build interactive prototypes that allow you to click through your wireframe concepts and experience your design first-hand.

Discover UI Design Fundamentals

Understand the role user interface design plays in a digital experience, and explore fundamental UI concepts including grids, typography, type hierarchy, and style guides.