Interaction Design for Usability
How This Course Will Help Your Career
In This Course, You’ll
Get excited about designing products, services, and experiences people love. Interaction Design for Usability improves careers and transforms your life and the lives of the people you serve. Every tap, click, and swipe matters. Whether you design websites, apps, or physical products, you'll build trust, loyalty, and satisfaction. It's easy because you already have transferable skills like empathy, logical thinking, and problem-solving. Interaction design skills stay relevant forever. They’ll future-proof your career by building on your existing innate human skills. AI will never genuinely replicate your new skills because human behavior is nuanced, emotional, and context-driven.
Make yourself invaluable with design skills that save time, reduce costs, and create experiences people value. Did you know companies prioritizing usability achieve greater loyalty, less churn, and better Return on Investment (ROI)? Create work you're proud of when users praise your products for usability, accessibility, and elegance. Whether you use Agile workflows, design intuitive interfaces, manage products, develop content, or optimize customer experiences, these skills benefit any industry—including tech, healthcare, finance, education, and retail.
Gain confidence and credibility as you master the usability frameworks behind the world’s most beloved designs—all in bite-sized, easy-to-follow lessons. You’ll learn step-by-step techniques like card sorting, heuristic evaluation, and paper prototyping. No matter your background, you’ll easily master Interaction Design for Usability. With clear guidance and real-world examples, you’ll apply your skills immediately. Understand the psychology of persuasion and confidently advocate for usability within cross-functional teams. Get ready to make products better for people, businesses, and society, and make a meaningful impact in your industry. If you want more meaning, more impact, and greater earning potential, this course is perfect for you.
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:
William Hudson: User Experience Strategist and Founder of Syntagm.
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Why Learn Interaction Design for Usability?
Interaction Design for Usability 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, 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. In demand.
And yes, we'll also show you exactly how to use AI to accelerate your results.
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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 UX 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. Every $1 invested in UX returns $100 (Forrester Research).
Design a Life You Love
Great UX design is all about helping people meet their needs and achieve their goals through intuitive, meaningful, and delightful experiences. Skills in UX design empower you to create experiences and products that make people’s lives easier and more fulfilling. And when people love what you create, the business thrives, and your salary potential grows. This gives you 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: 65 hours 15 mins spread over 19 weeks .
Lesson 0: Welcome and Introduction
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0.1: An introduction to courses from the Interaction Design Foundation (37 mins)
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0.2: Let Our Community Help You (1 min)
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0.3: How to Earn Your Course Certificate (16 mins)
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0.4: Expand Your Network and Grow Your Skills in Our Online Forums (5 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 the Interaction Design Foundation (21 mins)
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0.7: Mandatory vs. Optional Lesson Items (7 mins)
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0.8: A Mix Between Video-Based and Text-Based Lesson Content (6 mins)
Lesson 1: User-Centered Design Boot Camp
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1.1: Introduction (1 hour 31 mins)
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1.2: Mind the Empathy Gap (1 hour 35 mins)
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1.3: The Art/Science of Programming (29 mins)
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1.4: Human Centered Design (25 mins)
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1.5: Community-based learning and networking (8 mins)
Lesson 2: Visual Design for Usability
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2.1: Visual Design Versus Usability (51 mins)
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2.2: Principles of Visual Perception (35 mins)
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2.3: Layout and Grids (42 mins)
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2.4: Colour, Fonts & Images (1 hour 32 mins)
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2.5: Form Design (58 mins)
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2.6: Community-based learning and networking (7 mins)
Lesson 3: Navigation & Menu Design
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3.1: Designing for Users' Goals (1 hour 23 mins)
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3.2: The Scent of Information (1 hour 31 mins)
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3.3: Mega Menus & Faceted Search (42 mins)
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3.4: Menu Design for Mobile Devices (29 mins)
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3.5: Community-based learning and networking (9 mins)
Lesson 4: Designing for SEO & Accessibility
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4.1: Basics of SEO and Accessibility (1 hour 2 mins)
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4.2: Good Page Structure and Markup (1 hour 5 mins)
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4.3: SEO and Accessibility Tools (29 mins)
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4.4: Legal Aspects of Accessibility (28 mins)
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4.5: Completing the Accessibility Puzzle (29 mins)
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4.6: Community-based learning and networking (9 mins)
Lesson 5: Human Error, Messages & Feedback
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5.1: Human Error (2 hours 8 mins)
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5.2: Planning for Errors (30 mins)
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5.3: Feedback and Flow (33 mins)
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5.4: Attracting Attention (18 mins)
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5.5: Error Messages (1 hour 8 mins)
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5.6: Community-based learning and networking (8 mins)
Lesson 6: Usability Evaluation
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6.1: Introduction (1 hour 10 mins)
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6.2: Expert/Heuristic Evaluation & Benchmarking (42 mins)
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6.3: Paper Prototyping (12 mins)
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6.4: Usability Testing (47 mins)
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6.5: Eye Tracking (48 mins)
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6.6: A/B & Multivariate Testing (17 mins)
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6.7: Community-based learning and networking (9 mins)
Lesson 7: User-Centred IA With Card Sorting
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7.1: Basics of Card Sorting (1 hour 22 mins)
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7.2: Terminology (1 hour 16 mins)
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7.3: Cluster Analysis (46 mins)
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7.4: Other Analysis (32 mins)
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7.5: Avoiding Common Pitfalls (21 mins)
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7.6: Community-based learning and networking (8 mins)
Lesson 8: Dynamic Web Pages: Effective Use of Ajax
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8.1: Basic Principles of Ajax (1 hour 42 mins)
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8.2: Perceptual Issues (46 mins)
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8.3: Ajax Guidelines (58 mins)
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8.4: SEO & Accessibility (27 mins)
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8.5: A Worked Example (35 mins)
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8.6: Community-based learning and networking (9 mins)
Lesson 9: Writing Effective Web & Intranet Content
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9.1: What Users Want (49 mins)
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9.2: Inverted Pyramid & Visual Structure (16 mins)
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9.3: Readability Versus Legibility (21 mins)
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9.4: Readability Metrics (1 hour 22 mins)
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9.5: Community-based learning and networking (8 mins)
Lesson 10: Designing for Efficiency
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10.1: Ease of Learning Versus Efficiency of Use (56 mins)
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10.2: Keystroke-Level Model (38 mins)
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10.3: Fitts' Law (17 mins)
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10.4: The Art of Efficient Shortcuts (31 mins)
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10.5: Micro-Usability (28 mins)
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10.6: Community-based learning and networking (9 mins)
Lesson 11: Persuasion, Trust and Seduction
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11.1: Psychology of Persuasion (1 hour 24 mins)
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11.2: Perceptions of Trust (35 mins)
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11.3: Comparative Web Credibility (47 mins)
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11.4: User Goals & Emotional Journeys (18 mins)
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11.5: Seductive Design & The Halo Effect (48 mins)
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11.6: Community-based learning and networking (8 mins)
Lesson 12: Making the Case for UCD in Agile
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12.1: 'Optional' User Experience (1 hour 8 mins)
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12.2: Understanding Your Audience (1 hour 10 mins)
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12.3: Making the Most of Metrics (55 mins)
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12.4: Building a Persuasive Case (1 hour 1 min)
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12.5: Community-based learning and networking (8 mins)
Lesson 13: Integrating UX/UCD & Agile
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13.1: Origins of Agile (44 mins)
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13.2: Tension Between Agile & UCD (1 hour 6 mins)
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13.3: Empathetic Design (23 mins)
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13.4: Parallel Streams Approach (1 hour 2 mins)
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13.5: Focusing on Users (51 mins)
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13.6: Design Maps as a Collaboration Tool (16 mins)
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13.7: Community-based learning and networking (10 mins)
Lesson 14: Agile UX: Users, Personas & Design Maps
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14.1: Psychology of Personas (1 hour 59 mins)
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14.2: User Research (43 mins)
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14.3: Roles and Personas (1 hour 8 mins)
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14.4: Feature & Dependency Matrices (34 mins)
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14.5: Design Maps (23 mins)
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14.6: Community-based learning and networking (8 mins)
Lesson 15: Agile UX: Use Cases, Stories & Scenarios
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15.1: Brief Introduction to Requirements (1 hour 0 mins)
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15.2: Use Cases & Use Case Diagrams (1 hour 4 mins)
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15.3: Scenarios & Story-Telling (31 mins)
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15.4: Sketches, Storyboards & Wireframes (29 mins)
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15.5: Community-based learning and networking (10 mins)
Lesson 16: Agile UX: Conceptual Models
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16.1: Conceptual Models & Their Benefits (34 mins)
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16.2: User Versus Domain Models (1 hour 13 mins)
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16.3: Appropriate Levels of Detail (32 mins)
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16.4: Conceptual Models & Design Maps (25 mins)
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16.5: Community-based learning and networking (10 mins)
Lesson 17: Course Certificate, Final Networking, and Course Wrap-up
How Others Have Benefited
April Holder, United States
“The course had an incredible amount of depth for the cost of the course. It reminded me of taking a college course but without all the hassle of attending the lectures at the professor's preferred time. It was great to learn from an instructor who typically teaches computer science, as there were lots of little tidbits William Hudson offered that were additional to the course; he explained his way of thinking very well to make it accessible to my way of thinking (which can be quite different than his)”
Nora Szell, Luxembourg
“The course was very informative, well structured and well paced as well!”
Ashish Rajak, India
“The instructor has decades of experience in the design industry. He is really a good storyteller and mentor. I'm pleased to learn from such a person. Thank you so much, Mr. William Hudson! :)”
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