Object-Oriented UI Design: Build Interfaces Users Love
How This Course Will Transform Your Career
In This Course, You’ll
Get excited to transform messy requirements into smooth, user-centered solutions people instantly love. Most designers have never even heard of Object-Oriented UI (user interface) Design. That means your peers are still stuck bolting features together the old way. They end up with clumsy, confusing interfaces that frustrate users and drain development time. This gives you an edge. Research shows that clear, intuitive UI can double conversion rates. Object-oriented UI design makes that easy: you’ll design with objects, the same way you and your users already see the world, and bridge the gap between user experience (UX) and development. Master object-oriented UI design, and you’ll design interfaces that grow with your product, collaborate seamlessly with developers, and position yourself at the forefront of what’s quickly becoming the new standard in UX.
Make yourself invaluable by keeping design and development in sync. You’ll stop losing user-friendliness in translation and instead speak the shared language of stories of use, epics, constraints, conceptual models, and design maps. You’ll understand development constraints and technical realities, so you avoid impractical designs, bugs, and expensive redesigns. You’ll prioritize what matters most, avoid wasted effort, and guide teams toward solutions that truly serve users. The result? You become the go-to person who gets recognition because everyone involved can trust you to drive real impact with critical projects.
Gain confidence and credibility as the designer who cuts through complexity and delivers clarity. No more guessing, no more “just add one more feature.” You’ll know how to analyze needs, prevent feature creep, and create interfaces that stay consistent, intuitive, and loved by users. You’ll get the confidence to back up your decisions with research, user insight, and technical awareness. This will make you a respected partner in every cross-functional collaboration.
Craft your personal portfolio with results that prove your value. You’ll write compelling user stories, create wireframes and prototypes, and deliver design maps that show how you move from requirements to implementation-ready UI. These aren’t just practice activities. They’re career assets that demonstrate you can deliver designs users love and development teams can easily build.
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 Ltd.
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Why Learn Object-Oriented UI Design?
Object-oriented 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.
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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: 9 hours 10 mins spread over 4 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 (6 mins)
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0.3: How to Get Your Course Certificate (19 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: Get Timeless Skills with 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 (5 mins)
Lesson 1: Master the Object-Oriented Principles Behind Every Great UI
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1.1: Welcome to Object-Oriented UI Design: Build Interfaces Users Love (18 mins)
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1.2: Why Object-Oriented UI Design is Your Secret Career Advantage (21 mins)
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1.3: Object-Oriented Design Shapes Every Interface You Use Today (20 mins)
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1.4: Great Design Starts Here: Get the Requirements Right (13 mins)
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1.5: Use Cases: The Ideal Bridge Between Requirements and Design? (21 mins)
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1.6: What Use Case Narratives Tell You About Key OO Concepts (17 mins)
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1.7: What Agile Got Right (and What You Can Do Even Better) (20 mins)
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1.8: How Persona Stories Help You Design for Real People (16 mins)
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1.9: Build on Stories to Create Solutions Users Need (46 mins)
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1.10: Project Activity: Time to Apply Object-Oriented Thinking! (8 mins)
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1.11: Congratulations and Recap (2 mins)
Lesson 2: Prioritize What Matters to Your Users and Your Team: Turn Features, Epics, and Constraints into a Clear Plan
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2.1: Welcome and Introduction (3 mins)
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2.2: How to Find Your Way Around Requirements: Features, Epics, and Constraints (27 mins)
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2.3: Epics: How to Break Down Your Big Stories Without Breaking Your Sprint (12 mins)
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2.4: Get to Grips with Constraints (14 mins)
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2.5: Which Features Matter Most? Let Your Personas Show You (42 mins)
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2.6: What Should You Build First? Decide Fast with the Prioritization Matrix (12 mins)
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2.7: Project Activity: Cut Through the Complexity—Master Features, Epics, and Constraints (8 mins)
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2.8: Congratulations and Recap (2 mins)
Lesson 3: From Stories to Structure: Build the Models That Power Great Interfaces
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3.1: Welcome and Introduction (3 mins)
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3.2: The Three Levels of Detail: Your Roadmap from Abstract Ideas to Finished UI (14 mins)
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3.3: Conceptual Models: The Hidden Structure Behind Your Next Great Interface (25 mins)
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3.4: Conceptual Models: Your Essential Guide (29 mins)
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3.5: Stories of Use: How to Turn User Needs into the Building Blocks of Your UI (12 mins)
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3.6: Project Activity: Build the Conceptual Models That Bring Your Stories to Life (14 mins)
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3.7: Congratulations and Recap (2 mins)
Lesson 4: From Sketch to Build: Bring Your Designs to Life with Your Team
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4.1: Welcome and Introduction (2 mins)
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4.2: Design Smarter from the Start: Use Sketches to Explore Ideas Without Getting Stuck (13 mins)
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4.3: Build Your UI with Confidence: Let Sketches, Wireframes, and Prototypes Lead the Way (14 mins)
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4.4: Who, What, and How: Design Maps Show You the Way for Implementation (59 mins)
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4.5: From UX to Code: Use Your Design Maps to Deliver Development-Ready Guidance (42 mins)
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4.6: Project Activity: Turn Insight into a Design Map (11 mins)
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4.7: Congratulations and Recap (3 mins)
Lesson 5: IxDF Course Certificate and Course Wrap-up
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