Agile Methods for UX Design
How This Course Will Transform Your Career
In This Course, You'll
Get excited when you discover that agile isn't just about speed—it's about clarity, confidence, and doing work that delivers better results faster. Agile skills help you stay competitive in any job and across all industries. Today, 95% of organizations use Agile development methods to quickly adapt and avoid delays, bottlenecks, and costly failures in the design and development process.
Make yourself invaluable with the high-demand skills that companies are looking for. Agile methodologies often top job requirement lists because they help teams deliver more value in less time. Agile empowers you to feel in control, make faster, smarter decisions, and do meaningful work without burning out. Whether you're in User Experience (UX) Design, marketing, or management, this course will give you the skills you need to find solutions in less time and drive business success with higher-quality deliverables. You'll improve communication with developers, product managers, and other stakeholders, breaking down silos for a more collaborative team dynamic. You'll learn the secret to navigating different Agile environments with ease and experience the satisfaction of real progress.
Gain confidence and credibility as you get hands-on with proven techniques like continuous discovery, Minimum Viable Products (MVPs), and design slicing. It's easier than you think! No matter your background, you can easily learn to master Agile Methods for UX Design. You'll get comfortable with Agile patterns and anti-patterns and learn how to tailor your design and research to different teams. With step-by-step guidance and downloadable resources like the glossary of Agile terms and the product roadmap, you'll have everything you need to excel in any Agile environment.
It's Easy to Fast-Track Your Career with the World's Best Experts
Master complex skills effortlessly with proven best practices and toolkits directly from the world's top design experts. Meet your experts for this course:
Laura Klein: Product Management Expert, Principal at Users Know, and author of “Build Better Products” and “UX for Lean Startups.”
Teresa Torres: Product Discovery Coach at Product Talk, speaker, and author of “Continuous Discovery Habits.”
Adam Thomas: Product Management Expert who has worked with top companies like Google, BP, and SmartRecruiters.
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Why Learn Agile Methods for UX Design?
Agile Methods for UX Design falls under the umbrella term of User Experience (UX) design. UX design is your fast-track to a meaningful, secure, and rewarding career.
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Course Overview: What You'll Master
- Each week, one lesson becomes available.
- There's no time limit to finish a course. Lessons have no deadlines.
- Estimated learning time: 19 hours 30 mins spread over 6 weeks.
Lesson 0: Welcome and Introduction
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0.1: Get Help, Career Advice, and Job Opportunities (2 mins)
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0.2: How to Get Your Course Certificate (16 mins)
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0.3: Grow Your Global Network and Build Your Brand (12 mins)
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0.4: Global Skills, Local Jobs: Build Your Network in Your Area (2 mins)
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0.5: Gain Timeless Skills Through Courses from IxDF (21 mins)
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0.6: Mandatory vs Optional Lesson Items (7 mins)
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0.7: Learn Smarter: The Perfect Mix of Video and Text (6 mins)
Lesson 1: What Is Agile and Where It Came From
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1.1: Welcome to Agile Methods for UX Design (13 mins)
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1.2: A Brief History of Agile (17 mins)
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1.3: Why Is Design Missing in Agile? (25 mins)
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1.4: Common Agile Rituals and Meetings (39 mins)
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1.5: What Does an Agile Team Look Like? (16 mins)
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1.6: Common Agile Practices and Jargon (41 mins)
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1.7: Design Meetings and Practices in Agile (16 mins)
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1.8: Conversations: What Is an Agile Team (7 mins)
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1.9: Congratulations and Recap (15 mins)
Lesson 2: Agile Patterns, Anti-Patterns and Myths
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2.1: Welcome and Introduction (7 mins)
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2.2: There Is No Agile (1 hour 9 mins)
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2.3: Agile Myths (26 mins)
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2.4: Agile Anti-Pattern (29 mins)
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2.5: Agile Patterns in Large Organizations (24 mins)
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2.6: Congratulations and Recap (10 mins)
Lesson 3: How Researchers Can Succeed on Agile Teams
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3.1: Welcome and Introduction (9 mins)
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3.2: Continuous Discovery (40 mins)
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3.3: Innovation vs. Incremental Improvement (29 mins)
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3.4: Quicker and More Targeted Research and Experiments (39 mins)
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3.5: Collaborating with Your Team for Research (19 mins)
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3.6: When Generative Research Gets Done (21 mins)
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3.7: Sharing Research Results in an Agile Way (45 mins)
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3.8: Conversations: Research in Agile Teams (7 mins)
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3.9: Congratulations and Recap (8 mins)
Lesson 4: How Designers Can Succeed on Agile Teams
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4.1: Welcome and Introduction (8 mins)
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4.2: Designing the Smallest Possible Thing (26 mins)
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4.3: Designing From the Outside In (20 mins)
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4.4: Design Slices (19 mins)
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4.5: Design Refactoring and Iterating (22 mins)
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4.6: Design Systems (21 mins)
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4.7: Acceptance Criteria (22 mins)
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4.8: Conversations: Designing in Agile Teams (7 mins)
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4.9: Congratulations and Recap (7 mins)
Lesson 5: How to Design for Experimentation
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5.1: Welcome and Introduction (6 mins)
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5.2: Don’t Design for Everybody (19 mins)
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5.3: Find the Core (32 mins)
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5.4: Start With One (23 mins)
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5.5: How to Succeed as a Designer on Agile Teams: Embrace Imperfection (50 mins)
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5.6: Congratulations and Recap (7 mins)
Lesson 6: How to Build Products More Collaboratively
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6.1: Welcome and Introduction (7 mins)
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6.2: Design for Collaboration (47 mins)
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6.3: Sharing Works in Progress (22 mins)
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6.4: Getting Team Alignment (1 hour 5 mins)
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6.5: Creating Agile Design Deliverables (26 mins)
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6.6: Participatory Design for Agile Teams (19 mins)
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6.7: Planning for the Future and the Problem With Roadmaps (1 hour 7 mins)
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6.8: Conversations: Collaborating with Agile Teams (7 mins)
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6.9: Congratulations and Recap (8 mins)
Lesson 7: Course Certificate, Final Networking, and Course Wrap-up
How Others Have Benefited

Andrea Sabaté, Spain
“The course was so complete and based on experience. I realised it because agile is very different comparing theory and practice. I would have liked to discover this course before entering the agile world. It is a superb course! So much wisdom shared!!”

Milad Kardgar, Iceland
“Laura Klein is one of the best instructors I've ever seen. She is a UX designer with a demonstrated background in UX in practice and agile methodology indeed. Asking other professionals to share their knowledge was truly informative, in my opinion.”

Devina A. Paramita Na, Sweden
“Her way of explaining is really engaging. Adding a bit of humor here and there. It was really fun to follow. The examples are also great. I really enjoyed the course.”
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