Interaction Design for Usability

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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. As AI becomes part of how products are built, you stay in demand when you understand how people actually interact with interfaces and what makes interactions feel clear and predictable. These timeless human-centered interaction design skills help you turn AI from a tool into your superpower to ensure that faster production still leads to usable, ethical, and meaningful outcomes for real people.

  • 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. 

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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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Is This Course Right for You?

  • You want to land a job in design – or get a promotion.
  • You want to learn real-world design skills that are valuable in any job and any industry.
  • You want timeless human-centered skills AI cannot replace and turn AI into your superpower.
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Mr Hudson has experience, humbleness and talent. A deep understanding of development and coding provides a 360º approach to the UX issue.

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Mr. Hudson is extremely thorough and knowledgeable about his subject matter. I feel I have learned an incredible amount just in this course...

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Course Overview:

  • Each week, one lesson becomes available.
  • Study flexibly. Take as much time as you want.
  • 63h, 45m over 17 weeks (est.).

Lesson 0: Welcome and Introduction

To be scheduled. Estimated time to complete: 1 hour, 44 mins.

  • In-depth video lesson with experts, animations and templates. 0.1 An Introduction to Courses from IxDF (33 mins)
  • Multimedia lesson: E.g. templates, animations, illustrations, graphs, and text. 0.2 Get Help, Career Advice, and Job Opportunities (6 mins)
  • In-depth video lesson with experts, animations and templates. 0.3 How to Get Your Course Certificate (20 mins)
  • Community-based learning and networking. 0.4 Grow Your Global Network and Build Your Brand (12 mins)

Lesson 1: User-Centered Design Boot Camp

To be scheduled. Estimated time to complete: 4 hours, 6 mins.

  • In-depth video lesson with experts, animations and templates. 1.1 Introduction (1 hour, 31 mins)
  • In-depth video lesson with experts, animations and templates. 1.2 Mind the Empathy Gap (1 hour, 35 mins)
  • In-depth video lesson with experts, animations and templates. 1.3 The Art/Science of Programming (29 mins)
  • In-depth video lesson with experts, animations and templates. 1.4 Human Centered Design (25 mins)

Lesson 2: Visual Design for Usability

To be scheduled. Estimated time to complete: 4 hours, 42 mins.

  • In-depth video lesson with experts, animations and templates. 2.1 Visual Design Versus Usability (51 mins)
  • In-depth video lesson with experts, animations and templates. 2.2 Principles of Visual Perception (35 mins)
  • In-depth video lesson with experts, animations and templates. 2.3 Layout and Grids (42 mins)
  • In-depth video lesson with experts, animations and templates. 2.4 Colour, Fonts & Images (1 hour, 32 mins)

Lesson 3: Navigation & Menu Design

To be scheduled. Estimated time to complete: 4 hours, 10 mins.

  • In-depth video lesson with experts, animations and templates. 3.1 Designing for Users' Goals (1 hour, 23 mins)
  • In-depth video lesson with experts, animations and templates. 3.2 The Scent of Information (1 hour, 31 mins)
  • In-depth video lesson with experts, animations and templates. 3.3 Mega Menus & Faceted Search (42 mins)
  • In-depth video lesson with experts, animations and templates. 3.4 Menu Design for Mobile Devices (29 mins)

Lesson 4: Designing for SEO & Accessibility

To be scheduled. Estimated time to complete: 3 hours, 38 mins.

  • In-depth video lesson with experts, animations and templates. 4.1 Basics of SEO and Accessibility (1 hour, 2 mins)
  • In-depth video lesson with experts, animations and templates. 4.2 Good Page Structure and Markup (1 hour, 5 mins)
  • In-depth video lesson with experts, animations and templates. 4.3 SEO and Accessibility Tools (29 mins)
  • In-depth video lesson with experts, animations and templates. 4.4 Legal Aspects of Accessibility (28 mins)

Lesson 5: Human Error, Messages & Feedback

To be scheduled. Estimated time to complete: 4 hours, 42 mins.

  • In-depth video lesson with experts, animations and templates. 5.1 Human Error (2 hours, 8 mins)
  • In-depth video lesson with experts, animations and templates. 5.2 Planning for Errors (30 mins)
  • In-depth video lesson with experts, animations and templates. 5.3 Feedback and Flow (33 mins)
  • In-depth video lesson with experts, animations and templates. 5.4 Attracting Attention (18 mins)

Lesson 6: Usability Evaluation

To be scheduled. Estimated time to complete: 4 hours, 2 mins.

  • In-depth video lesson with experts, animations and templates. 6.1 Introduction (1 hour, 10 mins)
  • In-depth video lesson with experts, animations and templates. 6.2 Expert/Heuristic Evaluation & Benchmarking (42 mins)
  • In-depth video lesson with experts, animations and templates. 6.3 Paper Prototyping (12 mins)
  • In-depth video lesson with experts, animations and templates. 6.4 Usability Testing (47 mins)

Lesson 7: User-Centred IA With Card Sorting

To be scheduled. Estimated time to complete: 4 hours, 21 mins.

  • In-depth video lesson with experts, animations and templates. 7.1 Basics of Card Sorting (1 hour, 22 mins)
  • In-depth video lesson with experts, animations and templates. 7.2 Terminology (1 hour, 16 mins)
  • In-depth video lesson with experts, animations and templates. 7.3 Cluster Analysis (46 mins)
  • In-depth video lesson with experts, animations and templates. 7.4 Other Analysis (32 mins)

Lesson 8: Dynamic Web Pages: Effective Use of Ajax

To be scheduled. Estimated time to complete: 4 hours, 34 mins.

  • In-depth video lesson with experts, animations and templates. 8.1 Basic Principles of Ajax (1 hour, 42 mins)
  • In-depth video lesson with experts, animations and templates. 8.2 Perceptual Issues (46 mins)
  • In-depth video lesson with experts, animations and templates. 8.3 Ajax Guidelines (58 mins)
  • In-depth video lesson with experts, animations and templates. 8.4 SEO & Accessibility (27 mins)

Lesson 9: Writing Effective Web & Intranet Content

To be scheduled. Estimated time to complete: 2 hours, 54 mins.

  • In-depth video lesson with experts, animations and templates. 9.1 What Users Want (49 mins)
  • In-depth video lesson with experts, animations and templates. 9.2 Inverted Pyramid & Visual Structure (16 mins)
  • In-depth video lesson with experts, animations and templates. 9.3 Readability Versus Legibility (21 mins)
  • In-depth video lesson with experts, animations and templates. 9.4 Readability Metrics (1 hour, 22 mins)

Lesson 10: Designing for Efficiency

To be scheduled. Estimated time to complete: 2 hours, 57 mins.

  • In-depth video lesson with experts, animations and templates. 10.1 Ease of Learning Versus Efficiency of Use (56 mins)
  • In-depth video lesson with experts, animations and templates. 10.2 Keystroke-Level Model (38 mins)
  • In-depth video lesson with experts, animations and templates. 10.3 Fitts' Law (17 mins)
  • In-depth video lesson with experts, animations and templates. 10.4 The Art of Efficient Shortcuts (31 mins)

Lesson 11: Persuasion, Trust and Seduction

To be scheduled. Estimated time to complete: 3 hours, 56 mins.

  • In-depth video lesson with experts, animations and templates. 11.1 Psychology of Persuasion (1 hour, 24 mins)
  • In-depth video lesson with experts, animations and templates. 11.2 Perceptions of Trust (35 mins)
  • In-depth video lesson with experts, animations and templates. 11.3 Comparative Web Credibility (47 mins)
  • In-depth video lesson with experts, animations and templates. 11.4 User Goals & Emotional Journeys (18 mins)

Lesson 12: Making the Case for UCD in Agile

To be scheduled. Estimated time to complete: 4 hours, 20 mins.

  • In-depth video lesson with experts, animations and templates. 12.1 'Optional' User Experience (1 hour, 8 mins)
  • In-depth video lesson with experts, animations and templates. 12.2 Understanding Your Audience (1 hour, 10 mins)
  • In-depth video lesson with experts, animations and templates. 12.3 Making the Most of Metrics (55 mins)
  • In-depth video lesson with experts, animations and templates. 12.4 Building a Persuasive Case (1 hour, 1 min)

Lesson 13: Integrating UX/UCD & Agile

To be scheduled. Estimated time to complete: 4 hours, 28 mins.

  • In-depth video lesson with experts, animations and templates. 13.1 Origins of Agile (44 mins)
  • In-depth video lesson with experts, animations and templates. 13.2 Tension Between Agile & UCD (1 hour, 6 mins)
  • In-depth video lesson with experts, animations and templates. 13.3 Empathetic Design (23 mins)
  • In-depth video lesson with experts, animations and templates. 13.4 Parallel Streams Approach (1 hour, 2 mins)

Lesson 14: Agile UX: Users, Personas & Design Maps

To be scheduled. Estimated time to complete: 4 hours, 53 mins.

  • In-depth video lesson with experts, animations and templates. 14.1 Psychology of Personas (1 hour, 59 mins)
  • In-depth video lesson with experts, animations and templates. 14.2 User Research (43 mins)
  • In-depth video lesson with experts, animations and templates. 14.3 Roles and Personas (1 hour, 8 mins)
  • In-depth video lesson with experts, animations and templates. 14.4 Feature & Dependency Matrices (34 mins)

Lesson 15: Agile UX: Use Cases, Stories & Scenarios

To be scheduled. Estimated time to complete: 3 hours, 12 mins.

  • In-depth video lesson with experts, animations and templates. 15.1 Brief Introduction to Requirements (1 hour, 0 mins)
  • In-depth video lesson with experts, animations and templates. 15.2 Use Cases & Use Case Diagrams (1 hour, 4 mins)
  • In-depth video lesson with experts, animations and templates. 15.3 Scenarios & Story-Telling (31 mins)
  • In-depth video lesson with experts, animations and templates. 15.4 Sketches, Storyboards & Wireframes (29 mins)

Lesson 16: Agile UX: Conceptual Models

To be scheduled. Estimated time to complete: 2 hours, 51 mins.

  • In-depth video lesson with experts, animations and templates. 16.1 Conceptual Models & Their Benefits (34 mins)
  • In-depth video lesson with experts, animations and templates. 16.2 User Versus Domain Models (1 hour, 13 mins)
  • In-depth video lesson with experts, animations and templates. 16.3 Appropriate Levels of Detail (32 mins)
  • In-depth video lesson with experts, animations and templates. 16.4 Conceptual Models & Design Maps (25 mins)

Lesson 17: IxDF Course Certificate and Course Wrap-up

To be scheduled. Estimated time to complete: 13 mins.

  • In-depth video lesson with experts, animations and templates. 17.1 How to Add Your IxDF Certificate to LinkedIn (7 mins)
  • Multimedia lesson: E.g. templates, animations, illustrations, graphs, and text. 17.2 Help Us Help You: Course Evaluation (4 mins)
  • Multimedia lesson: E.g. templates, animations, illustrations, graphs, and text. 17.3 Six Steps to Your Career Success (3 mins)
  • Multimedia lesson: E.g. templates, animations, illustrations, graphs, and text. 17.4 Get Your IxDF Course Certificate (2 mins)

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Pip Turner
Pip Turner
UX Prototyper

Depth of experience & number of anecdotes were great. Very trustworthy, with so much knowledge to share!

Andressa Bento Nunes
Andressa Bento Nunes
Student

The instructor has a calm and clear way of explaining concepts, making the lessons easy to follow and understand.

Kamil Osiński
Kamil Osiński

It's very elaborate and touches on a lot of different aspects connected to the topic of Interaction design.

Pablo Mieres
Pablo Mieres
Product Designer

Mr Hudson has experience, humbleness and talent. A deep understanding of development and coding provides a 360º approach to the UX issue.

Maria Guadalupe Toscano Paya
Maria Guadalupe Toscano Paya
UX Designer

Good examples, the course relates greatly to the actual work environment with agile teams.

Hossein Sharafi
Hossein Sharafi
Sr. Product Designer

The course was really complete and usable in the design process.

Alecia Mitchell
Alecia Mitchell
Product Designer

Mr. Hudson is extremely thorough and knowledgeable about his subject matter. I feel I have learned an incredible amount just in this course alone!