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best way to learn something is to do it
Hands on
user experience
design coursesThe
best way to learn something is to do it
UX Gym offers user experience design courses where you experience UX design techniques first hand and can put what you learn into practice straight away. Our courses are aimed at both designers and non designers looking to add to their skill base and gain practical UX experience. No previous experience is required.
Public CoursesWe provide customised user experience training and capability building for organisations. We've done this for government departments such as the Department of Internal Affairs and Statistics NZ, and private companies such as Fraedom.com and Wine-Searcher.com. To enquire about our private courses and capability building service get in touch:
Contact UsReading about user experience design techniques on the internet is a great start, but only putting them into action prepares you to use them as part of your everyday practice.
A big thank you to everyone who checked out our web seminars, joined the zoom Q&As, and sent us messages about courses during the lockdown.
We really appreciate your support and are pleased to be starting back up in level 1. See our a revised line-up for the rest of 2020 here. If all goes well we will be back to our full schedule next year!
Probably no other area of design has more impact on how successful your initial design decisions are going to be than user research. Most of us aren’t designing for ourselves, and a good understanding of who our users are and what their needs are is vital for successful design. This course teaches you how to identify the best type of research for a project, how to execute your research so you get the most useful results given the time and resources you have available to you, how to execute your research and how to make sense of your research results.
No prior knowledge is required to do this course, it is suitable for absolute beginners. However the course is primarily aimed at:
Designers and developers who want to learn how to discover the needs of the people you are designing for.
Senior practitioners who want to gain an understanding of the basic principles of user research and put some flesh around their current practice.
Product owners and project managers who want a better understanding of what their researchers need, how to use research to increase the quality of their decisions or who want to build the capabilities of themselves and their teams.
You will learn how to analyse a project to identify if that project needs formative user research in order to achieve its goals.
You will learn the different types of user research available to you and how to identify which one is the most likely to get you valid results given the time and resources available to you.
You will get to work in a team to design and execute a research project.
You will learn about common analysis techniques to make sense of the data you have collected and you will get to use one of those techniques on your own data.
You will learn how to present you research in a way that is meaningful and compelling.
There are no prerequisites for this course, no previous experience with design or research is required.
All materials are provided.
Like our 1 day UX Crash Course this course gives you hands-on experience of a digital UX design project from start to finish, but it goes into more depth in each area. This course is designed to give you a more thorough understanding of the principles behind a modern user centered design process and more practical experience of some of the most common activities you will encounter in a typical user experience project. The day is designed so you can apply what you learn immediately to your current projects and also use what you learn as a base for further study.
You are put in a team and work on a digital design project throughout the day learning and applying human centered design methods as you go. No coding is required with the focus for this day on design decisions rather than implementation.
You will learn the basic principles of user experience design including its history and common terminology used.
You learn how to identify if research is required, what kind of research is best suited to your project, and the basics of designing research to get valid outcomes. You experience implementing a common research method and learn how to synthesise and interpret user research results.
As well as covering all the material found in our 1 day crash course you get to spend more time learning how to facilitate research to get usable results and learning how to synthesise your research results to identify themes, needs, and opportunities.
You learn the basic principles behind making good interaction and UI design decisions and experience putting those principles into practice.
This includes the material covered in our crash course but also goes into more depth on best practice UI/Interaction design and how to design to accomodate common user/customer behaviour.
You learn what you can and can’t user test, how to design user tests that are likely to get you valid results and experience designing and facilitating user tests for you project.
This is an experiential course. You learn by doing, developing a project throughout the 2 days taking it through a full UX design process from initial research through to usability testing. To ensure you can use what you learn during the week in your regular design practice you are given:
You get common UX methods that make up a typical UX design process. These are practical ways of working that you can take away and start applying immediately.
You get the foundation theory behind these methods - why we work the way we do. This gives you a basis for further study and helps you judge how appropriate any method is for a given problem. A firm grasp of basic principles also makes it easier for you to alter a method or develop your own methods as needed.
You apply the principles and methods to your project. This experience of applying a clean principle and method to messy human behaviour is essential if you are going to learn how to practically solve real design problems in a human centered way.
No prior knowledge is required to do this course, it is suitable for absolute beginners. However the course is primarily aimed at:
Everything you need will be provided. We don’t supply lunch but we do do a morning coffee run and supply fruit and snacks to keep you going.
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