Mobile UX Strategy: How to Build Successful Products
How This Course Will Transform Your Career
Create user-friendly mobile experiences that captivate and engage your users like never before! Transform your ideas into highly successful products with this comprehensive course on Mobile UX Strategy.
In This Course, You'll
Get excited as you create mobile experiences people love! Feel like you're not reaching your potential? This is your moment to grow, feel confident, and accelerate your career. Did you ever download an app, only to delete it almost immediately because it didn't meet your expectations? You're not alone. Apps lose 77% of their daily active users within the first 3 days of installation. In this course, you'll learn how to design apps that fit effortlessly into people's lives, solve real-world problems, and make a lasting impact. You'll build actionable personas and apply proven best practices. You'll learn how to tap into what people want and create an app that delivers with total confidence.
Make yourself invaluable when you create mobile experiences that drive adoption and loyalty in any industry. And it's easier than you think! With step-by-step guidance, you'll apply your new Mobile UX Strategy skills straight away. You'll learn how to conduct mobile user research and make data-driven decisions that increase engagement, boost retention, and drive measurable growth. You'll integrate assistive technology and champion accessibility to improve your app's usability for all and expand your market reach. You'll learn how to optimize your content for shorter attention spans and the on-the-go nature of mobile devices.
Gain confidence and credibility with practical exercises and ready-to-use templates like the Accessible Design Cheatsheet and 10-Step Guide to Personas. The optional portfolio project helps you walk away with an impressive portfolio. How? You'll learn to redesign a mobile app, and you'll be able to use your portfolio and IxDF course certificate to fast-track your career. You'll get comfortable with frameworks that help you lead mobile UX design initiatives, influence stakeholders, and turn ideas into successful mobile products.
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.
Torrey Podmajersky: Author of “Strategic Writing for UX” and President of Catbird Content, who has designed and executed content strategies for iconic brands like Google, OfferUp, and Microsoft.
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Why Learn Mobile UX Strategy?
Mobile UX Strategy falls under the umbrella term of User Experience (UX) design. UX design is your fast-track to a meaningful, secure, and rewarding career.
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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.
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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: 10 hours 6 mins spread over 3 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 (2 mins)
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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 (12 mins)
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0.5: Global Skills, Local Jobs: Build Your Network in Your Area (2 mins)
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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: User Research in Mobile UX
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1.1: Welcome to Mobile User Experience: Strategy and Best Practices (21 mins)
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1.2: Before the Design Process Starts: It’s Time to Get Out Of the Building (18 mins)
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1.3: Understand the User’s Perspective through Research for Mobile UX (26 mins)
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1.4: Understand Your Users (23 mins)
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1.5: User Research Methods for Mobile UX (9 mins)
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1.6: Personas for Mobile UX Design (1 hour 14 mins)
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1.7: How to Improve Your UX Designs with Task Analysis (16 mins)
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1.8: Conversations: Create a Task Analysis Diagram (8 mins)
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1.9: Build Your Portfolio: Get to Know Your Users through Research (9 mins)
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1.10: Congratulations and Recap (6 mins)
Lesson 2: Mobile UX Strategy
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2.1: Welcome and Introduction (2 mins)
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2.2: How to Use Mental Models in UX Design (41 mins)
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2.3: How to Transform Mental Models into Conceptual Models for Mobile UX (15 mins)
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2.4: What Comes First in Mobile Design: Tasks, Content, or Mobile Optimization? (31 mins)
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2.5: How to Craft Effective Mobile Experiences: The Role of Content Strategy and UX Writing (35 mins)
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2.6: Mobile UX Best Practices (27 mins)
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2.7: Conversations: Creating a Mobile-First, Task-First, Content-First Bike Sharing App (11 mins)
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2.8: Build Your Portfolio: Choose the Right Design Approach (9 mins)
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2.9: Congratulations and Recap (3 mins)
Lesson 3: User Testing and Accessibility
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3.1: Welcome and Introduction (2 mins)
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3.2: Mobile Accessibility 101 (46 mins)
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3.3: Best Practices for Mobile App Usability from Google (14 mins)
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3.4: The Importance of User Testing for Mobile UX Design (24 mins)
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3.5: Mobile App Accessibility: User Testing with People Who Have Disabilities (23 mins)
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3.6: Conversations: Redesign an Android In-Call Screen (11 mins)
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3.7: Build Your Portfolio: Make Your Design Accessible Through Iteration (9 mins)
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3.8: Congratulations and Recap (3 mins)
Lesson 4: Course Certificate, Final Networking, and Course Wrap-up
How Others Have Benefited

Kate Filippova, Poland
“I was impressed by how detailed this course has been and how many exercises and tasks were there.”

Mark Savignano, Australia
“Good, concise explanations and clear, up-to-date examples to showcase the subject matter.”

Robb Keele, United States
“Personable and knowledgeable. Easy to follow and provided great, relatable examples throughout.”
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