Become a UX Designer from Scratch
How this course will help your career
What you will learn
- An introduction to the main areas of user experience work, and why it matters
- The various UX roles in an organization
- How to create UX deliverables—with downloadable templates on creating personas, customer journey maps, prototypes, and many more
- How to go through the five stages of the design thinking process: empathize, define, ideate, prototype, and test
- How to build a UX portfolio as well as land yourself a UX role
- The confidence to work with clients as a UX consultant
If you want to join one of the most rapidly growing fields in design, then look no further—this is the course for you. Through covering the ins and outs of the role, and throwing the doors wide open to the exciting world of UX design, “Become a UX Designer from Scratch” will take things right back to the beginning; it will offer a ‘hard reset’ in order to show you how to embark on a new career in UX design.
All products, whether digital or otherwise, must deliver a high-quality user experience (UX) or risk losing users to competitors—after all, a product is useless without its users! Products with good UX sell better; in fact, design-centric businesses have consistently outperformed the industry average by more than double [1]. Demand for UX designers is therefore higher than ever before; they are already prevalent in tech companies, and there is a growing need for them within other industries. UX impacts UI design, web design, and graphic design, and understanding the field of UX will improve your efforts within all of those areas.
Through this course, you will learn all the skills you need to assist companies in delivering the right UX for their products. All techniques included in the teaching are tried-and-tested industry standards, which will equip you with the very best knowledge to start you off on your new professional path. You will learn how to create various UX deliverables from the beginning of a UX project right to the end, ranging from customer journey maps to paper prototypes and even heuristic evaluations. You will also take your first steps towards creating a UX portfolio—something that will truly make an impact on your UX job applications. In fact, seeing as a UX portfolio is so important to landing your first UX job, we have devoted an entire module to creating one that will help you stand out from the crowd.
You will also find a number of optional exercises and home assignments that build on one another and follow a design process—from the first idea, right through to the point where you can start testing your prototype. We highly recommend that you take up the challenge and complete all the exercises involved, because not only will you get hands-on experience with UX design but, by the end, you will also have a design case study that you can include in your aforementioned portfolio.
In “Become a UX Designer from Scratch”, you will gain access to interviews with senior UX hirers and experts from companies such as SAP and Google. Through these interviews, you will understand what hirers and senior designers look out for when hiring a new member of the team—all so that you can gain an advantage over fellow candidates. We have also filmed a series of interviews with IDF members who have successfully landed a UX job. These will provide you with inspiration for your own career prospects, as well as invaluable advice about how to transition into a career in UX and what daily life as a UX professional really looks like.
Wait no longer to begin your professional UX career!
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Who should take this course
This is a beginner-level course suitable for anyone who wants to embark on a career in UX design:
- UX designers, interaction designers, and UI designers looking to build effective portfolios and land their next UX job
- Students keen on becoming UX designers or UX consultants
- Entrepreneurs and business owners interested in conducting UX work on their own products or services
- Anyone aspiring to change into a career in the field of UX
Learn and work with a global team of designers
When you take part in this course, you will join a global multidisciplinary team working on it and the exercises it contains at the same time as you. You will work together to improve your skills and understanding. Your course group will be made up of an incredibly diverse group of professionals, all of whom have the same objective—to become successful designers. It’s your chance to learn, grow, and network with your peers across the planet. Before you know it, you may find yourself connecting with some very helpful people and making friends with like-minded individuals, all as you push deeper into an exciting world brimming with opportunity and powerful possibilities for the future.
Challenge yourself to excel!
Knowing how you’re doing as you progress is as vital to your success as pushing yourself to get the most out of what we offer at IDF. That’s why we give you the chance to reach the top of the class every week on our leaderboard, by getting the most questions right and scoring points for each. The top scorers’ names appear on the leaderboard, and healthy competition revolves around competing with yourself; so, go on and take the challenge! However, don’t get discouraged if you don’t find your name on the board – your fellow students are answering the questions at different times across the planet. With that in mind, take heart that your name may appear the following week—as long as you answer all of the available questions.
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Lessons in this course
- Lessons become available at a schedule of one lesson per week.
- Lessons remain open for you forever and have no deadlines.
- There is no time limit to finish a course.
- You have permanent access to your course material, answers, and classmates for the entire duration of your membership.
- Estimated time to complete: 10 hours 13 mins spread over 7 weeks.
Lesson 0: Welcome and Introduction
Available once you start the course. Estimated time to complete: 40 mins.
Lesson 1: Starting your UX career – What is UX and What do UX Designers do?
Available once you start the course. Estimated time to complete: 2 hours 5 mins.
Lesson 2: Top strategies to help you tackle UX design projects
Available anytime after Dec 30, 2019. Estimated time to complete: 1 hour 40 mins.
Lesson 3: How to build your first UX design from start to finish, part 1: Empathize and Define
Available anytime after Jan 06, 2020. Estimated time to complete: 2 hours 0 mins.
Lesson 4: How to build your first UX design from start to finish, part 2: Ideate, Prototype, and Test
Available anytime after Jan 13, 2020. Estimated time to complete: 1 hour 25 mins.
Lesson 5: How to create your first UX Portfolio
Available anytime after Jan 20, 2020. Estimated time to complete: 2 hours 11 mins.
Lesson 6: Wrap-up
Available anytime after Jan 27, 2020. Estimated time to complete: 12 mins.
Lesson 7: Course Certificate and Final Networking
Available anytime after Feb 03, 2020.
Learning paths
This course is part of 2 learning paths:
How others have benefited
Seth Lemon, United States
“The lessons are clear and easy to understand. The content in the lessons are thoroughly explained, and there's a good balance between video content vs. text content. This really is a intro or UX 101 course, which I really appreciated.”

Prudhvi Raj Midasala, India
“The strength of this course is its content and the way all the lessons are organized. The experience the instructors possess is also a huge advantage to the course and its members in understanding the design methods effectively.”

Barbara-Anne Tane, Australia
“The course has given me a great overview of the foundation of UX design, the processes, players and understanding of the expectations of / on designers.”
How to advance your career with IDF courses
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Attend lessons at your own pace
Each week throughout the course, you get access to a new lesson, but you can move through the lessons at your own pace. This means you can learn before you leave for work, or in between breaks — in as little as 15 minutes per day.
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Network online and offline
Network with your fellow course-takers online, through discussion forums inside lessons. You can also connect with your peers offline via IDF’s Local Groups. Local Groups connect you with other designers around your city who share the same passion in UX design as you.
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Advance your career
Get a verifiable and industry-trusted Course Certificate once you’ve scored at least 70% on a course. Highlight your Course Certificates on your résumé, your LinkedIn profile, or your website to showcase your newly mastered skills.
Start advancing your career now
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