Mobile UX Design: The Beginner's Guide
How This Course Will Transform Your Career
In This Course, You'll
Get excited as you design world-class mobile apps and interfaces that make a real difference in people's lives. Mobile UX Design doesn't just offer a skill—it gives you freedom. Freedom to work from anywhere, switch industries, and build a career on your own terms. With mobile-first design in high demand across the world, your skills can take you wherever you want to go. Almost 90% of the world's population owns a smartphone, and more than half of all online traffic comes from mobile devices, so your work has the power to reach billions. Whether you're designing for healthcare, finance, gaming, or education, you'll create intuitive, accessible solutions that make people's lives easier, faster, and better.
Make yourself invaluable by learning how to use your human strengths such as empathy, creativity, and problem-solving to build experiences people love and keep coming back to. These human-centered, AI-resistant skills put you in high demand. You'll create experiences that meet people where they are—on the go, at home, or at work. Well-designed mobile UX design leads to happier customers, retention, and revenue. This course will give you the skills to launch successful apps and interfaces that deliver results—on the App Store, Google Play, or within your organization. No matter your background, you can master Mobile UX design. With clear guidance and real-world examples, you'll apply your skills straight away!
Gain confidence and credibility with optional practical exercises. You'll develop an app feature for mobile, tablet, and desktop, then adapt the design for different contexts like lighting conditions and user movement. You'll get comfortable with human-centered mobile design best practices and the mobile UX design lifecycle. Use our downloadable templates such as the Customer Journey Map and Usable, Satisfying, and Easy (USE) Scorecard to fast-track results and help you excel in any role, in any 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 experts for this course:
Frank Spillers: Service Designer and Founder and CEO of Experience Dynamics.
Alan Dix: Author of the bestselling book “Human-Computer Interaction” and Director of the Computational Foundry at Swansea University.
Mike Rohde: Experience and Interface Designer, author of the bestselling “The Sketchnote Handbook.”
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Why Learn Mobile UX Design?
Mobile UX 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: 13 hours 30 mins spread over 5 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: Learn the Basics of Mobile User Experience
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1.1: Welcome to Mobile UX Design: The Beginner’s Guide (24 mins)
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1.2: How to Optimize Your Designs for Smartphones vs Tablets (19 mins)
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1.3: 3 Key Parameters to Design and Evaluate the Mobile User Experience (46 mins)
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1.4: Simple Guidelines When You Design for Mobile (18 mins)
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1.5: How to Design for Micro-Moments (20 mins)
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1.6: 8 Goals of Mobile UX (40 mins)
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1.7: How to Ethically Design for Inclusivity (17 mins)
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1.8: Conversations: Challenge the Assumptions of “Swipe Left”Design (8 mins)
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1.9: Build Your Portfolio: Evaluate an App with the 8 Goals of Mobile UX (9 mins)
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1.10: Congratulations and Recap (7 mins)
Lesson 2: How to Kick Start Your Mobile User Experience Design
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2.1: Welcome and Introduction (2 mins)
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2.2: Native, Web or Hybrid App: Which One is Better? (1 hour 10 mins)
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2.3: Context of Use for Mobile (21 mins)
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2.4: Responsive Design: Best Practices (17 mins)
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2.5: Adaptive Design: Deliver a Powerful User Experience (55 mins)
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2.6: Should You Choose between Responsive and Adaptive Design? (12 mins)
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2.7: Usability vs Desirability in Mobile UX (16 mins)
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2.8: Build Your Portfolio: Adapt to the User’s Context (8 mins)
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2.9: Congratulations and Recap (7 mins)
Lesson 3: Understand the Mobile User Experience Design Process
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3.1: Welcome and Introduction (2 mins)
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3.2: 5 Steps for Human-Centered Mobile Design (19 mins)
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3.3: UX Design for Mobile: Step 1—Assess the Current Situation (10 mins)
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3.4: UX Design for Mobile: Step 2—Understand Your User Needs (32 mins)
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3.5: UX Design for Mobile: Step 3—Define Your Value Proposition and Emotional Value (19 mins)
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3.6: UX Design for Mobile: Step 4—Differentiate Your Mobile UX Strategy (58 mins)
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3.7: UX Design for Mobile: Step 5—Sketch, Review and Refine (19 mins)
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3.8: How Does Sociability Impact Mobile User Experience? (33 mins)
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3.9: Conversations: Put UX Strategy into Practice (8 mins)
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3.10: The Mobile UX Lifecycle (15 mins)
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3.11: Build Your Portfolio: Differentiate your Mobile UX Strategy (8 mins)
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3.12: Congratulations and Recap (9 mins)
Lesson 4: Use Heuristics to Validate Your Mobile UX Designs
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4.1: Welcome and Introduction (2 mins)
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4.2: How to Apply Nielsen’s 10 Usability Heuristics to Mobile Design (35 mins)
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4.3: Use These Mobile-Specific Heuristics to Evaluate UX (13 mins)
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4.4: How to Apply the USE Scorecard to Evaluate Mobile UX (44 mins)
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4.5: Build Your Portfolio: Put Your Heuristic Evaluation Skills into Practice (11 mins)
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4.6: Congratulations and Recap (6 mins)
Lesson 5: Course Certificate, Final Networking, and Course Wrap-up
How Others Have Benefited

Sarah Reif, United States
“The examples were easy to follow and the mixed video/reading elements really complimented each other throughout. Frank did a really excellent job breaking down just how different the contexts of use are for mobile and how to adapt and think about those contexts when crafting mobile products.”

Rich McNabb, New Zealand
“Frank is a FANTASTIC instructor.”

Polina Pashkevich,
“Structured info and a lot of related materials for deeper learning.”
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