How to Create Intuitive Products by Imitating Physicality
How This Course Will Transform Your Career
In This Course, You'll
Get excited when you create simple, intuitive experiences people love! What if you could design products people instantly understood? Successful devices from brands like Apple have one thing in common: they turn complex tech into something that feels natural and familiar. It's easier than you think, because you already simplify interactions every day, like organizing your kitchen so anyone can quickly find things. This course builds on the skills you already have, so it's easy to master intuitive product design, even if you don't design interfaces yourself.
Make yourself invaluable when you learn how to design products that drive higher adoption rates and stronger brand loyalty! Companies that prioritize intuitive User Experience (UX) Design outperform the market by a whopping 219%. Why? Because good design makes people smile. More smiles, more impact, better results, and greater salary potential. Stop swimming upstream by learning tools that AI will soon replace. Intuitive UX skills, grounded in human perception and physical experiences, are timeless and ensure your career stays strong and relevant, no matter how technology evolves.
Gain confidence and credibility when you discover the secret to interactions that feel like second nature. It's easier than you think, even if design is completely new to you. You'll use your existing human skills, like empathy, problem-solving, and your natural understanding of physical interactions, to reduce the learning curve and create effortless interfaces people love coming back to. Whether you're in tech, consumer goods, or services, intuitive design will make your work more impactful, no matter your industry.
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 expert for this course:
Alan Dix: Author of the bestselling book “Human-Computer Interaction” and Director of the Computational Foundry at Swansea University.
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Why Learn How to Create Intuitive Products by Imitating Physicality?
How to Create Intuitive Products by Imitating Physicality falls under the umbrella term of User Experience (UX) design. UX design is your fast-track to a meaningful, secure, and rewarding career.
Worried You'll Lose Your Job to AI? UX Design Skills Make You AI-Proof
UX design builds on your core human strengths, such as emotional intelligence, deep human understanding, critical thinking, intuition, and imagination.
AI can't replicate your uniquely human ability to design for real emotions and needs such as joy, comfort, curiosity, safety, and a sense of belonging. These deeply human insights are your superpowers. With UX design skills, you'll turn them into products and experiences people truly love. You become irreplaceable, confident and in demand.
And yes, we'll also show you how to use AI to accelerate your results.
Feeling Stuck in the 9–5? Design Your Freedom
Tired of feeling undervalued, anxious, or trapped in your career? UX design skills open doors to freedom, flexibility, remote work, and a career you're excited about—without starting from scratch.
Stop wondering if you could be more. Start realizing your full potential today.
UX Design is Booming: Accelerate Your Career to Higher Salaries and Impact Across All Jobs and Industries
Salaries for people with design skills are soaring, often surpassing $200K in cities like San Francisco, and job growth is strong (13% globally). Why? Because companies thrive when their users are happy. Companies that invest in great design outperform the S&P 500 Index by a whopping 228%.
Design a Life You Love
Great design is all about helping people meet their needs and achieve their goals through intuitive, meaningful, and delightful experiences. Skills in design will empower you to create experiences and products that make people's lives easier and more fulfilling. And when people love what you create, your business thrives, and your salary potential grows. You get the ultimate double win:
You'll feel deeply fulfilled by designing experiences and products people love.
You'll be financially rewarded for your real-world impact.
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: 9 hours 12 mins spread over 2 weeks.
Lesson 0: Welcome and Introduction
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0.1: An Introduction to Courses from IxDF (37 mins)
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0.2: Get Help, Career Advice, and Job Opportunities (1 min)
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0.3: How to Get Your Course Certificate (16 mins)
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0.4: Grow Your Global Network and Build Your Brand (11 mins)
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0.5: Global Skills, Local Jobs: Build Your Network in Your Area (1 min)
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0.6: Gain Timeless Skills Through Courses from IxDF (21 mins)
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0.7: Mandatory vs Optional Lesson Items (7 mins)
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0.8: Learn Smarter: The Perfect Mix of Video and Text (6 mins)
Lesson 1: Designing for Physicality
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1.1: Designing for physicality: Introduction (32 mins)
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1.2: Aspects of physicality (1 hour 30 mins)
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1.3: Studying physicality (20 mins)
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1.4: Conversations: Community-Based Learning and Networking (6 mins)
Lesson 2: What is physical?
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2.1: What is physical? - Kinds of things (26 mins)
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2.2: What is physical? - Rules of the world (59 mins)
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2.3: Continuity in time and space (36 mins)
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2.4: Conversations: Community-Based Learning and Networking (6 mins)
Lesson 3: Physicality and devices
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3.1: Everyday devices to physigrams (22 mins)
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3.2: Multiple feedback loops (1 hour 13 mins)
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3.3: Device unplugged (1 hour 21 mins)
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3.4: Conversations: Community-Based Learning and Networking (6 mins)
Lesson 4: Course Certificate, Final Networking, and Course Wrap-up
How Others Have Benefited
Pierleone Loreti, Italy
“Thanks for this course: I find it really stimulating and it gives lots of insights in what human expects from machines and objects.”
Ana Rajner, Germany
“I love it. And Alan is so great. It is my first time to take his course, but I will dig for more of his courses. He takes so simple examples, but explains a lot. Thank you IDF for this experience.”
Michael Scharber, United States
“The instructor (Alan Dix) is animated, clear, engaging and entertaining.”
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