This workshop will be hosted online (Livestream) due to safety considerations, please check out the "Preparation" section on the bottom of this page. Registered participants will be notified in advance of this program with information on how to log in to the workshop.


As technology changes and more media outlets compete for customers’ time, providing an enjoyable experience is critical to both attracting and keeping users. This bootcamp aims to demystify UX by giving a practical and simple introduction to what UX is while also explaining some of its core concepts of usability. This is a field that affects all areas of business — prepare to dip your toes into an ocean of new concepts and ideas that will enlighten your perspective on the human-computer interaction experience.

Designed for anyone working or aiming to work in digital, this class will be particularly useful for:

- People wanting to know more about UX before undertaking formal training,

- Visual designers, content managers and developers wanting to understand where their discipline crosses over with UX, and how they can work well with UX designers,

- Marketing, account, product and project managers wanting to understand when UX should come in, what it does and its value,

- Entrepreneurs and business managers looking to understand UX before recruiting UX designers.

Takeaways

- Defining user experience and understanding what’s under that umbrella term

- Creative facilitation and agile project lifecycle

- UX roles & responsibilities: User Research, Information Architecture, Interaction, Design: what do they each do?

- Key UX tools and principles

Preparation

This class is taken completely online via Zoom and Slack.

You will need access to a laptop or computer with a working webcam as well as a strong internet connection.

Course set up information will be emailed to all students signed up around 24 hours before (and again an hour before) the course launches.