Integrated User Experience Design Bootcamp
3 months to kick-start your UX career with grounding knowledge in the foundation of User Experience and robust Capstone Projects.
Newly Added! UX Interview Coaching Session
Senior UX designers from the industry will provide interview coaching and mock interviews and special exercises in the form closest to real recruitment, helping you break through the difficulties of UX interview and increase the success rate of your job hunting!
The course is leading designed by Dave Malouf and Spell Yu. Dave Malouf is the co-founder of Interaction Design Association (IxDA), the founder of Interaction Design program at Savannah College of Art and Design(SCAD), has concentrated on education in Interaction design, Design Management, and Design Strategies. Spell Yu is a Sr. product designer at Snap, previously worked at Salesforce, Citrix, Amazon, etc. has gained expertise in Product research, Product strategies, Service development, and Product design.
The entire class employs the project-based learning technique and emphasizes learning through doing. With these hands-on experience, rich class content facilitated team collaboration, and simulated real-world work environment, you will transform into a confident and competitive UX designer in the job market.
Almost every student completed their portfolio after taking this course. The students who have completed their portfolio in this course have been employed by leading tech or design companies worldwide, and have grown to be top-tier UX designers preeminently.
Highlights
You will delve into the theoretical frameworks of UX design by learning research methods and principles of interaction design.
Establish a foundation
in UX design
Our instructors all have previous hiring experience in well-known technology companies. They are practical experts in UX design, design management, and design strategies.
Live sessions by
preeminent designers
You will complete 8+ general design assignments, 3+ UX design projects and a high-quality portfolio for job interviews. We also offer 15G+ design resources to support you to finish your projects.
Create your portfolio
from scratch
You will join the UX designer community, where you will be able to networking with top tier designers across the US, and attend the mock interviews and product critiques, which will help you gain interview techniques.
UX Designer Community
Referral & Mock Interview Opportunity
Product managers from Google/Uber and other top tech companies will propose product demands and review the final product. Students have opportunities to solve real-world problems.
Learn to solve
real-world problems
Instructors will provide 1-on-1 portfolio critique, mock interview, resume review to each student, and individual guidance on design exercise and whiteboard challenge.
1V1 tutoring on
job hunting skills
Target Students
Projects
UX Fundamental Assignments
You will finish 8 UX assignments as the course proceeds to review and apply theoretical knowledge from class to a practical project.
Assignments include Design a common product, Psych & Anthro project, Way Finding, Dashboard, E-Commerce, Contextual Design, Gig-economy service, Persona & Scenario, etc.
Design System Project
For beginners, learning to leverage design system for UX design in a short period is critical but also difficult in the process of UX interviews and real-world development.
In this project, you will perform UX design on a well-developed design system. In the end, product managers from top tech companies will review your design and help you improve it. This is the scenario you will experience when you enter the workplace!
Usability Testing Project
UX design is grounded in user needs. UX designers always start their work by precisely understanding user needs. Is there any product experience that you want to improve in real life? Are you excited to apply new technology to your own design?
In this project, students will finish an individual project under instructors’ guidance. Students will choose their own topic, conduct user and product research, and complete the interface design.
Business and Capstone Project
You will work with our partnered companies, and help them solve actual problems in their products. You will accomplish a prospective product design which will strengthen your portfolio.
How to work with product managers to determine user needs? What data and user behaviors will influence the map of produce strategies? How to turn conceptual ideas into reality? You will find the answers after completing the project.
Syllabus
Section 1
Design Thinking Foundation
Understand basic UX concepts, theoretical knowledge, and its applications in the industry. Learn basic design thinking and research methods.
Frequency: 1 week, 3 sessions per week
Week 1
Framing Design Practice and Design Thinking I
Framing Design Practice and Design Thinking II
UX 101
Section 2
Establish Empathy with User
Understand users by learning user research process, quantitative and qualitative research methods, and conduct market research.
Frequency: 2 weeks, 3 sessions per week
Week 2
People: Psychology & Anthropology I
People: Psychology & Anthropology II
UX Methodologies & Processes
Week 3
“Data & Information; Navigation, Understanding, Relevance” I
“Data & Information; Navigation, Understanding, Relevance” II
Understand your users through research
Section 3
Designing Experiences
Understand the industrial UX design process, from user research, prototype present, to web and mobile front-end design.
Frequency: 5 weeks, 3 sessions per week
Week 4
Interaction Design; Behavior I
Interaction Design; Behavior II
Designing beautiful user interfaces
Week 5
Qualitative Research Methods I
Qualitative Research Methods II
Usability testing
Week 6
Storytelling I
Storytelling II
Designing for Web
Week 7
Prototyping I
Prototyping II
Designing for Mobile
Week 8
Service Design 1
Service Design 2
Building your portfolio
Section 4
Practice Design
You will complete 3+ individual or team design projects under instructors’ supervision to strengthen your portfolio.
Frequency: 4 weeks
Week 9-12
Passion Project
Capstone Project
Systematic Design Project
* The syllabus is subject to change at the discretion of LaiOffer.
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- Interactions on 5 platforms 24/7
- All-star instructors give live teaching for the whole session
- 1-on-1 resume revisions and job referral
- 15G+ free design materials and related resources
- 4+ industrial level projects to create your top portfolio
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