UI / UX Design

Creative departments for companies might be something that can help give you the social fuel you need. Have you thought about going into UX/UI design? Designers have to engage with people consistently and really get to help bring their vision to life.

Google Certified: https://www.coursera.org/specializations/ui-ux-design

As a developer myself who is an ENFJ and has ADHD I genuinely don’t like meetings either. What helped me is figuring out why I don’t like them. By shifting my perspective on the meeting and by being more engaged vs a bystander I came to appreciate them more.

What I also think might be of interest is doing some freelancing as you’re getting started because you get to plan the meetings with clients and once you start landing larger contracts you will have a lot of flexibility to travel while working remote as well. And create a business for working for yourself.

The problem with freelance is that you’re not getting that coworker engagement feeling that you want.

Hopefully this helps and I can totally talk more with you about this to. I am 25 years old so I can totally understand where you’re coming from!

I live in California so when I think about work I am passionate about, I have to think about the pay because it is so expensive here haha

Don't give up after only a week! I can't imagine what I would have thought of my future design career if I judged it by just my first week doing design.

• The only benefit to daily challenges is that it gets you quickly trying new things and can help you learn programs better. That said, it very often leaves you with a piece that isn't very well thought-out.
• CalArts offers a UI/UX specialization course on Coursera. You can audit these courses for free (or if you pay you get access to peer-graded projects and an official completion certificate).
• What tools are you using for your work?
• Do you find you're more interested in UI or UX? People can sometimes use those interchangeably and there's a lot of overlap, but at their core they're different disciplines. Figuring out if you want to focus on one or the other (or both!) will help you head in a good direction.
• Don't feel like you need to start from scratch. Spend some time looking at websites and themes. Capture images of them and recreate them in your programs. This can help you get a feel for the flow, sizing, elements, and typography used in building websites and apps.

User Interface / User Experience design. It definitely helps to have some prior familiarity with graphic design, and comfort with technology. But if you have the aptitude and the motivation, Coursera and other MOOC platforms have programs that you can audit for free, or pay a few hundred dollars (less than $500 though I think) to get official certificates for. And other, accredited universities have online-only UI design programs, too.

It's insanely in-demand right now, to the degree that the company where I'm at is hiring people even without formal training or certificates, as long as they fit with the team culture and are willing to learn on the job. And since it's in the technology field, the job opportunities are still decent compared to some other types of jobs. And it has a good shot at remaining in-demand, no matter how Covid reshapes the economy long-term.

I'm already at the capstone project and started this summer. If I can give you a tip, I would do a lot of courses parallel. In September I completed four of the eight courses parallel because the workload isn't really much and I still had summer break. You also save a lot of money this way. If you really want to spend 4-5 hours each workday you can get seven courses done in six weeks easily.

I'm planning to start the new UI/UX-Design Course of the California Institute of the Arts soon. It only launched two weeks ago.

I definitely think you could be using more psychology into the process. I have a graphic design background and am working on learning UI and UX. I think the little of psychology that I know comes into how users will use the product, what will they use/click on first first, what colors will catch their eye, anticipating/predicting the users actions, what the eye sees first or constructing what you want the eyes to see first (hierarchy). You say you have done studies in vision, attention, attraction, and memory. The class I took last month went over how interface design mimics real world/analog models of things and humans memories of those real world things helps them know how to use the digital versions of those things. There's a bit of psychology in graphic design.

I'm doing some courses by CALARTS via coursera.org. It's goes by pretty fast and the work is peer graded, but I think it covers a lot of the terms you may not know.

Can you give me a run down of how you got your foot in the door?

Background: Currently I do Jr Level data analysis with SQL but have an interest in UI/UX design. I graduated college with B.S Cognitive Science and have just signed up for https://www.coursera.org/specializations/ui-ux-design. I'm hoping this will teach me something, meanwhile I'm teaching myself to use Invision Studio/Sketch (just got access) and Photoshop and am just creating a mobile app mockup for an idea I had.

The startup I'm at right now let's me use Sketch to create tool designs and mock-ups but I feel this would be confidential and pointless except for the aspect of using this as a way to learn to use Sketch better.

This is one I found a while back through CalArts/Coursera.

There's a course on coursera by calarts. I've heard good things about it. You've got to pay for the certificate, but otherwise its free. Or there's a free trial - try finishing it in 7 days and you'll get the certificate for free.

https://www.coursera.org/specializations/ui-ux-design

This online course from CalArts might be a good starting point

HI, I am a tech writer and I want to transition to UX/UI by the end of this year. I was thinking of taking some course to up my skill. Will the course on Coursera be a good one for the role or there is some other courses that I should look at.

https://www.interaction-design.org/
https://grow.google/uxdesign/#?modal_active=none
https://www.coursera.org/learn/user-experience-design
https://www.coursera.org/specializations/ui-ux-design

Check out this: https://www.coursera.org/specializations/ui-ux-design

I haven't taken it yet but I've been eyeing up this course:
https://www.coursera.org/specializations/ui-ux-design

>Coursera course taught by Cal Arts

Thanks, this looks good.
For anyone looking for this, https://www.coursera.org/specializations/ui-ux-design

Nice! Well done on being so close to graduating. I'm not a UX designer but I work with digital content and UX plays a big part of what we do.

It's fascinating. One of my favourite bits of UX knowledge is the idea of affordances: https://uxplanet.org/ux-design-glossary-how-to-use-affordances-in-user-interfaces-393c8e9686e4

Also, Coursera has a UI/UX Specialization course. https://www.coursera.org/specializations/ui-ux-design

You can't formally take the whole course for free - but if you click on each of the individual subjects (UX Design Fundamentals for instance) and click 'Enrol' you're able to 'Audit' the course for free.

Worth checking out to see if it's something that clicks for you.

You can start with a couple of general design books--The Design of Everyday Things by Donald Norman and Don't Make Me Think by Steve Krug.

Next, you can check out a couple of specializations (course sequences) on Coursera--UI/UX Design from CalArts and User Interface Design from the University of Minnesota.

Hope that helps.

Oiiii, você pode procurar os cursos da Udemy (eles são mais baratos) https://www.udemy.com/

Pode também fazer cursos gratuitos da Coursera ou EDX, eles só não dão certificado mas você pode aprender de graça, só tem os certificados se pagar (é caro ai eu uso só p aprender mesmo)

https://www.coursera.org/specializations/ui-ux-design

https://www.coursera.org/professional-certificates/google-ux-design

muitos tem legendas em português.

Sorry I completely forgot to respond to this.

In my experience Tech Writing has basically two branching tracks for advancement into higher-paying positions. One is the engineering route, where you're expected to have a CS degree and deep knowledge of various programming languages for developer and API documentation. The other is the "creative" route which eventually leads to UI/UX design/writing. Unfortunately my understanding of coding languages pretty much ends at CSS. I've tried learning Python and Javascript, but I just don't have the brain and/or patience for it. I have a background in design principles already, so UX makes the most sense for me.

So of those two branches, I'd say the developer/API route requires much more "technical" knowledge than the UX rote.

I'm using various online resources to expand my UX background, and I'm about to start a Coursera UX course, as well, which will cost me a few hundred bucks but should be worth it. Here's some links:

https://uxwriterscollective.com/ https://www.coursera.org/specializations/ui-ux-design https://www.coursera.org/learn/ux-design-fundamentals https://www.coursera.org/learn/ux-design-concept-wireframe

There are other options besides Coursera, of course (zing!), but you may find what you need through youtube alone. Depends what you feel you need, I guess.

To master any skill, One should follow these three steps: Know, Learn, Practise.

Know - Read articles and blogs from industry experts, know the terminology, tools used.

Learn - Once you know the ABC's of the skill, find one course or a book for learning required tool.

Practice - We can't master anything till we get our hands dirty. Find inspiration from online and start working on it.

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Some links which might be helpful to you.
K - Lyman's Guide to UI/UX, Intro to UI/UX, About UI, About UX, and you can find many on Medium.

L - User Experience (UX) Design, Design Thinking, User Interface (UI) Design, UI and UX from Scratch, Adobe XD, and you can find many courses in Lynda(Paid).

P - Behance and Dribbble are the best places for finding inspiration for your next project.

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Hope this helps! All the best exploring!

Hi,
I'm getting into UXD by virtue of the work I do. I'm a program developer and adult learning facilitator (teaching all online now, both synchronously and asynchronously). I build and manage my organization's learning experiences on our online platform. I'm well versed in adult learning theory and I have an instructional design background. I work a lot with LMS's and LXP's. So UXD will help me a lot.

I want to take a UX program and get a professional certificate or a MicroMasters while working full-time. (I am not worried about the workload - I can handle it). But I have some questions before I commit to a specific program/certificate.

1. Is UX design a field where having a university degree (as opposed to simply a professional certificate) matters? Or do the portfolio/experience/other employment qualifications matter more than the university degree?

2. My inkling is that people are programmed to think "more highly" of university degrees (whether rightly or wrongly). I am strongly considering the MicroMasters in UX Design and Evaluation by HEC Montreal (University of Montreal's business school) (https://www.edx.org/micromasters/hecmontrealx-ux-design-and-evaluation). This is my #1 choice right now. Does anyone know it? Is it worth it?
   Here are some other contenders: I am also considering taking the certificate through the Interactive Design Foundation (https://www.interaction-design.org/) or the professional certificate through the UX Design Institute (https://www.uxdesigninstitute.com/). The final option for me is the UX/UI Specialization through Coursera (https://www.coursera.org/specializations/ui-ux-design).
   Does anyone have any experience with any of these? Any of these worthwhile?

Thanks so much Reddit. You are the best.

>good eye for website design

Let me save you from this idea. Design is not about aesthetics. Design is about problem-solving.

Web designers place too much emphasis on aesthetics. They play a fairly diminished role overall. That's not to say that problems are never solved by aesthetics (e.g., luxury brands), but most of the time they're simply not that important beyond "good enough" (i.e., simple, clean, and stays out of the way of the user completing tasks).

That said, here are some resources.

Design Disciplines

• BOOK: The Elements of User Experience by Jesse James Garrett. This particular books provides an excellent framework for thinking about websites. It specifically focuses on UX Design. It's one of the most important books that I've read.
• BOOK: Graphic Design Thinking by Ellen Lupton and Jennifer Cole Phillips. This teaches you Design Thinking and Graphic Design concurrently.
• BOOK: Graphic Design: The New Basics by Ellen Eupton and Jennifer Cole Phillips. By the duo above, a basic introduction to graphic design.
• BOOK: The Non-Designer's Design Book by Robin Williams. This is great book on basic Graphic Design.
• BOOK: Design: A Very Short Introduction by John Heskett. A good introduction to Design as a broader discipline. It's good for helping understanding that design is much more than aesthetics.
• BOOK: Typography Workbook by Timothy Samara. One of the best books on typography that I've come across.
• BOOK: The Design of Everyday Things by Donald Norman. Considered by many to be one of the key texts for designers, across all disciplines, to read. It promotes a user-centered design approach.
• COURSE: Graphic Design Specialization on Coursera.
• COURSE: Interaction Design Specialization on Coursera.
• COURSE: UI/UX Design Specialization on Coursera.
• WEBSITE: Smashing Magazine. Great resources on web design in general.
• WEBSITE: A List Apart. While I don't see it recommended much anymore, they were the one who popularized responsive design.
• WEBSITE: Nielsen-Norman Group. They place a strong emphasis on user-centered design. The Norman in the name is Donald Norman from above.

Communication (Soft Skills)

• BOOK: Writing for Multimedia and the Web by Timothy Garrand. Writing is one of the most important tools we can developed. That's because communication is so fundamental to everything we do.

Business (Soft Skills)

• BOOK: Value-Based Fees by Alan Weiss. This is primarily about how to price services based on value rather than time and other approaches. You'll find that value is a fundamental concept in business, so it's helpful to be business savvy even if you're not on the business side of things.
• BOOK: Jobs to Be Done by Stephen Wunker and Jessica Wattman. This book is focused on marketing, particularly knowing your customers, but the jobs-to-be-done concept is actually quite helpful in a design context (e.g., What are your users trying to get done on your website?).
• COURSE: Digital Marketing Specialization on Coursera.