Mobile UI Design
How This Course Will Transform Your Career
In This Course, You'll
Get excited about creating mobile apps that people love to use! If you've ever felt like you're not reaching your potential, this is your chance to fast-track your career. You'll build real confidence and shape your personal brand to stand out. With limited screen space and most of us constantly on the go, your mobile experience must be as effortless as possible. Did you know people delete 3 out of 10 apps within 30 days of downloading them? In this course, you'll get the skills to confidently design intuitive User Interfaces (UIs) that keep people coming back. It's easier than you think, even if design is completely new to you.
Make yourself invaluable with proven mobile UI design best practices that help your apps stand out in a crowded marketplace. Every swipe, tap, and scroll matters. People judge your app within seconds. If you want to discover the secret to easy-to-use mobile app designs that hook users from the start, this course is for you. You'll master touch targets, tappability, and visual design principles to support task completion. The result? Mobile UIs that people can't put down. And more loyalty means more revenue.
Gain confidence and credibility with step-by-step templates that help you easily apply your new, impactful methods. Use them in your job or to build your portfolio. In the optional portfolio projects, you'll apply UI design patterns to make people feel at home as you redesign a mobile app feature and incorporate augmented reality (AR). You'll improve engagement and adoption as you learn how to avoid cognitive friction and design notifications for better mobile interactions. Fast-track your projects with ready-to-use templates like the Heuristic Evaluation Sheet and Mobile UI Design Checklist. This course will give you a high-demand skill set that'll future-proof your career across industries.
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:
Frank Spillers: Service Designer and Founder and CEO of Experience Dynamics.
Mia Cinelli: Associate Professor of Art Studio and Digital Design at the University of Kentucky.
Joann Eckstut: Color Consultant, Founder of The Roomworks, and one of the 12 designers chosen by the Color Association of the USA to create the yearly forecast used by industries to keep up with color trends.
Arielle Eckstut: Author, Agent-at-large at the Levine Greenberg Rostan Literary Agency, and Co-Founder of The Book Doctors and LittleMissMatched.
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Why Learn Mobile UI Design?
Mobile UI Design 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: 14 hours 1 min spread over 4 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: Introduction to Mobile UI Design
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1.1: Welcome to Mobile UI Interface Design (20 mins)
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1.2: How to Use Affordances and Signifiers (36 mins)
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1.3: 5 Ways to Incorporate Affordances in User Interfaces (46 mins)
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1.4: How to Use “Tappability” Affordances (34 mins)
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1.5: How to Improve the “Tappability” of Mobile UI (17 mins)
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1.6: The One Thumb, One Eyeball Test for Good Mobile Design (18 mins)
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1.7: Conversations: One Thumb, One Eyeball (7 mins)
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1.8: Build Your Portfolio: Affordances in Mobile UX (9 mins)
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1.9: Congratulations and Recap (6 mins)
Lesson 2: UI Patterns for Mobile
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2.1: Welcome and Introduction (3 mins)
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2.2: UI Patterns and How to Use Them (23 mins)
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2.3: Future-Focused UI Patterns (17 mins)
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2.4: How to Design for Mobile Search (48 mins)
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2.5: How to Design Mobile Forms (24 mins)
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2.6: Best Practices and UI Design Patterns for Help in Mobile (24 mins)
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2.7: How to Design Notifications for Better Mobile Interactions (48 mins)
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2.8: Conversations: Improve App Notifications (7 mins)
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2.9: Conversations: Deceptive Patterns (8 mins)
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2.10: Build Your Portfolio: UI Patterns (2 mins)
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2.11: Congratulations and Recap (6 mins)
Lesson 3: Visual Design for Mobile
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3.1: Welcome and Introduction (2 mins)
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3.2: Visual Design in Mobile: How to Support Tasks and Usability (23 mins)
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3.3: Visual Design in Mobile: How to Use Layout, Typography and Color (55 mins)
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3.4: Visual Strategy: What We Can Learn from Google’s Material Design (44 mins)
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3.5: Top 10 UI Trends Every Designer Should Know (17 mins)
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3.6: UI Animation—How to Apply Disney’s 12 Principles of Animation to UI Design (58 mins)
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3.7: How to Reduce Cognitive Friction in Mobile (14 mins)
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3.8: Conversations: Cognitive Friction (7 mins)
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3.9: How to Use a Mobile UI Design Checklist (24 mins)
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3.10: Build Your Portfolio: Mobile UI Design (8 mins)
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3.11: Congratulations and Recap (6 mins)
Lesson 4: AR Experiences for Mobile
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4.1: Welcome and Introduction (2 mins)
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4.2: What is Augmented Reality (AR)? (22 mins)
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4.3: Excellent Use Cases for AR (19 mins)
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4.4: How to Design for AR (45 mins)
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4.5: How to Apply Heuristics to Improve AR UIs (17 mins)
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4.6: Conversations: Augmented Reality in the Wild (7 mins)
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4.7: Build Your Portfolio: AR in Mobile UI Design (11 mins)
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4.8: Congratulations and Recap (7 mins)
Lesson 5: Course Certificate, Final Networking, and Course Wrap-up
How Others Have Benefited

Ricardo de Mello, Ireland
“The content given to us is placed in real-world applications and came with rich insights into how to use it any kind of project. It is the best investment I made to update myself and improve my knowledge and skills.”

María Camila Delgado, Colombia
“The course was excellent, the references were helpful, and the videos were very useful to me.”

Andy Gingerich, United States
“The instructor shared plenty of relatable content that made it easy to understand how the course topic applied. Even as a UX designer with exposure to most of this content, I still picked up some really good insights and new material.”
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