UX Design for Augmented Reality
How This Course Will Transform Your Career
In This Course, You'll
Get excited about immersive experiences that effortlessly blend the digital and physical worlds! Feeling stuck in a 2D job? The UX Design for Augmented Reality (AR) course will help you fulfil your potential by creating 3D AR experiences people love with intuitive interfaces and a seamless real-world connection. Use AR overlays for real-time training in industrial settings to improve retention by 80% or to help people visualize a product in their home before purchasing. You'll merge reality with imagination to reshape how people interact with the world around them. More love, more impact, greater salary potential.
Make yourself invaluable with sought-after skills in spatial mapping, gesture-based input, object manipulation, and 3D interaction. Brands that use AR in campaigns see up to a 200% increase in engagement! From AR-assisted surgeries in healthcare to virtual try-ons with your favorite retailer, AR isn't limited to one industry—it's everywhere! And you can easily learn to master it, no matter your background. With clear guidance, hands-on templates, and real-world examples, you'll apply your skills immediately.
Gain confidence and credibility as you discover the AR design process step-by-step, from research to heuristic evaluation. Overcome the anxiety of watching job descriptions evolve beyond your skill set when you learn how to create customer journey maps, prototype your AR design, and gather usability feedback. With optional hands-on exercises and downloadable templates like the 3D Persona Template and the AR Heuristic Scorecard, you'll walk away with an impressive portfolio featuring your own AR project that accelerates your career success.
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:
Frank Spillers: Service Designer and Founder and CEO of Experience Dynamics.
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Why Learn UX Design for Augmented Reality?
UX Design for Augmented Reality 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: 10 hours 45 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 (1 min)
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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 (11 mins)
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0.5: Global Skills, Local Jobs: Build Your Network in Your Area (1 min)
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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: What Is UX for AR and Why Does It Matter?
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1.1: Welcome to UX Design for Augmented Reality (12 mins)
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1.2: What Makes UX for AR Unique? (22 mins)
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1.3: How to Create Memorable Stories in AR (29 mins)
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1.4: Social AR and Why It Is Essential (22 mins)
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1.5: AR Success Stories: AR Experiences That Inspire, Entertain and Educate (1 hour 14 mins)
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1.6: Conversations: Find the Right Space (7 mins)
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1.7: Build Your Portfolio: Define a Problem AR Can Solve (10 mins)
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1.8: Congratulations and Recap (5 mins)
Lesson 2: User Research and How to Study Context of Use in AR
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2.1: Welcome and Introduction (2 mins)
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2.2: Understand Your Users and Their AR Environment (23 mins)
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2.3: How to Use the Environment in Your AR Experience (19 mins)
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2.4: How to Design for AR Experiences on the Go (25 mins)
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2.5: How to Balance Safety and Immersion in AR (52 mins)
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2.6: Conversations: Google Lens vs. Google Glass (7 mins)
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2.7: Build Your Portfolio: Map Out Your User’s Journey (9 mins)
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2.8: Congratulations and Recap (2 mins)
Lesson 3: Visual Design and Prototypes for AR
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3.1: Welcome and Introduction (1 min)
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3.2: Affordances Are Essential for Good UX in AR (45 mins)
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3.3: Spatial UI Design: Tips and Best Practices (29 mins)
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3.4: How to Prototype Your AR Experience (26 mins)
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3.5: Conversations: Spatial UI Design Guidelines (8 mins)
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3.6: Cross-Device AR: How to Ensure a Seamless Experience (45 mins)
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3.7: Build Your Portfolio: Create Your First Prototype (8 mins)
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3.8: Congratulations and Recap (6 mins)
Lesson 4: How to Improve Your AR Experiences
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4.1: Welcome and Introduction (2 mins)
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4.2: AR Heuristics to Avoid Common UX Pitfalls (21 mins)
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4.3: How to Test AR Designs with Users (17 mins)
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4.4: Iterate, Iterate, Iterate (11 mins)
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4.5: Conversations: AR Heuristic Review (7 mins)
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4.6: Build Your Portfolio: Put Your AR Design to the Test! (8 mins)
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4.7: Congratulations and Recap (8 mins)
Lesson 5: Course Certificate, Final Networking, and Course Wrap-up
How Others Have Benefited

Kaila Naidoo, South Africa
“The real-world examples were very helpful in solidifying the AR UX concepts. There is a lot of overlap between AR and UX processes, heuristics, etc. So the examples also helped to show the extra "layers" needed when approaching AR design.”

Lucy Serret, Australia
“Really liked the video tutorials of the instructor explaining the concepts with actual examples. It's still a fairly new field so understanding what he was saying with actual real-world examples helped hone in on what he was talking about and a real-world application of this.”

Darius Voss, United States
“The material and resources are EXTREMELY helpful. Also the professionals doing the videos give me a sense of trust.”
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