Microsoft UX Design
Launch Your Career in UX/UI Design. Build job-ready UX design skills through hands-on projects and learn to use industry leading tools like Figma. No degree or experience required.
Instructor: Microsoft
Beginner Level • 2 months at 10 hours a week • Flexible Schedule
What You'll Learn
- Define the core principles of UX, Human-Centered Design, and design thinking frameworks, and identify UX team roles and user research methods.
- Translate insights into solutions by analyzing user needs, using design ideation techniques, storyboarding, and applying information architecture.
- Adapt design ideas into interactive prototypes using wireframing, mockups, prototyping tools, and leverage design systems and style guides.
- Apply visual design principles and craft high-fidelity mockups that adhere to platform best practices and ensure accessibility for all.
Skills You'll Gain
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Outcomes
- Receive professional-level training from Microsoft
- Demonstrate your proficiency in portfolio-ready projects
- Earn an employer-recognized certificate from Microsoft
4 courses series
This course explores the core concepts of User Experience Design (UXD) and Human-Centered Design (HCD). It introduces design thinking and how it is used in UX/UI design. It will also cover UX roles and responsibilities. Finally, learners will start work on a portfolio of their designs.
In this course, learners will analyze user needs and research and use those insights to make design choices. They will review design ideation techniques and use Design Thinking to generate create storyboards, user flow diagrams, and journey maps. Last, they will use information architecture principles to organize content for intuitive navigation.
In this course, you will create wireframes, mockups, and prototypes, using Figma and Fluent 2 Design.
In this course, you will apply visual design principles to create high-fidelity mockups, considering platform-specific design patterns and best practices, while incorporating user feedback from usability testing.
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