The Practical Guide to Usability

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In This Course, You'll

  • Get excited as you master usability to create products and services people love. Users don't notice good usability, but they never forget bad design. If you had to choose between a product requiring a manual and one that's intuitive from the start, you'd choose intuitive usability every time. This course helps you turn complexity into simplicity and frustration into love. Studies show that 79% of people abandon websites due to poor usability. Think of the advantage you gain when you identify problems early and design solutions users genuinely love. Usability skills future-proof your career because they're rooted in timeless human behaviors. AI can't replace your unique ability to understand user frustrations and turn them into intuitive experiences.

  • Make yourself invaluable by learning how to think like your users. A well-designed user interface can boost a website's conversion rate by up to 200%. This course equips you to observe user behavior, uncover hidden pain points, and make data-backed decisions that increase loyalty, efficiency, and profits. Usability ensures your designs connect with people on a human level, whether you create software, marketing campaigns, or operational processes. All industries and roles benefit from great usability. You already practice usability intuitively when you arrange apps for easy access or label folders clearly—professional usability naturally builds on these skills.

  • Gain confidence and credibility with ready-to-use templates, real-world examples, and clear guidance you can immediately apply. No matter your background, you'll be guided to easily master heuristic evaluations, cognitive walkthroughs, and user testing to transform “good enough” designs into firm favorites. You'll apply best practices directly to your work, designing products and services that are not only functional but loved. This course empowers you to create meaningful experiences, enhance your career, and make a lasting impact on people's lives.

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:

  • Marc Hassenzahl: Professor of Ubiquitous Design/Experience & Interaction in the Department of Business Computing at the University of Siegen.

  • William Hudson: User Experience Strategist and Founder of Syntagm.

Gain an Industry-Recognized UX Course Certificate

Use your industry-recognized Course Certificate on your resume, CV, LinkedIn profile or your website.

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Our courses and Course Certificates are trusted by these industry leaders:

Our clients: IBM, HP, Adobe, GE, Accenture, Allianz, Phillips, Deezer, Capgemin, Mcafee, SAP, Telenor, Cigna, British Parliament, State of New York

Why Learn Usability? 

Usability 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: 27 hours 29 mins spread over 9 weeks.

Lesson 0: Welcome and Introduction

Available once you start the course. Estimated time to complete: 1 hour 38 mins.

Lesson 1: User Interface Design Guidelines

Available once you start the course. Estimated time to complete: 6 hours 15 mins.

Lesson 2: Usability Considerations

Available once you start the course. Estimated time to complete: 3 hours 28 mins.

Lesson 3: Thinking Like Users

Available anytime after Sep 27, 2025. Estimated time to complete: 3 hours 52 mins.

Lesson 4: Usability Testing and Evaluation

Available anytime after Oct 04, 2025. Estimated time to complete: 4 hours 41 mins.

Lesson 5: Inspection Methods: Practice and Application

Available anytime after Oct 11, 2025. Estimated time to complete: 2 hours 14 mins.

Lesson 6: Personas: A Method of Maintaining User Focus

Available anytime after Oct 18, 2025. Estimated time to complete: 1 hour 56 mins.

Lesson 7: Practical User Testing Documentation

Available anytime after Oct 25, 2025. Estimated time to complete: 1 hour 28 mins.

Lesson 8: Usability Testing: Practical Application

Available anytime after Nov 01, 2025. Estimated time to complete: 1 hour 52 mins.

Lesson 9: Course Certificate, Final Networking, and Course Wrap-up

Available anytime after Nov 01, 2025. Estimated time to complete: 6 mins.

How Others Have Benefited

Ryan

Ryan, United States

“I felt the format was extremely nice. All the information was laid out so neatly that you could see your progress and navigate.”


Ana Jaramillo

Ana Jaramillo, Colombia

“The course material was well-structured, comprehensive, and relevant to current industry practices. The inclusion of real-world examples and case studies greatly enhanced my understanding of the concepts.”


Sarang Sudhir Pitale

Sarang Sudhir Pitale, India

“Amazing experience while taking the course , great learning and wish that I will get to implement all of these in my future projects.”

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