Web Design for Usability
How This Course Will Transform Your Career
In This Course, You'll
Get excited about creating websites people love. With 88% of online consumers less likely to return after one bad experience, the stakes couldn't be higher: if people struggle to use your website, your business suffers. It's effortless to learn usability because you already have transferable skills like empathy and logical thinking. This course gives you the hands-on skills you need to ensure your website works for your users—not against them. Usability taps into human behavior and recognizes that people make emotional choices. They'll most often take the easiest and most attractive route to fulfill their needs. It's no wonder Apple's products thrive, and salaries for people who learn design are soaring.
Make yourself invaluable when you turn usability insights into increased engagement and sales. Great usability equals great business. The goal of usability is to make users and customers smile. Make a difference and make a great living doing it. You'll use the principles of human-centered design to increase conversion rates and build lasting brand loyalty. Get everything you need to create user-friendly websites and eliminate user frustration through smooth and intuitive design! While tools and trends constantly change, usability skills remain timeless because they're deeply founded in human-centered knowledge. That's why they future-proof your career against AI.
Gain confidence and credibility through video lessons and evidence-based methods you can apply immediately. Regardless of your background, you'll master Web Design for Usability quickly. With clear, step-by-step guidance and real-world examples, you'll put your skills into action right away. Learn essential usability and accessibility guidelines, master user research techniques, create impactful personas, and design effortless navigation. This course is perfect if you want to create successful websites that not only look fantastic but also drive meaningful business growth.
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.
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Why Learn Web Design for Usability?
Web Design for 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: 17 hours 22 mins spread over 9 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: Introduction
Lesson 2: Interaction Model
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2.1: Gulf of Execution and Evaluation (29 mins)
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2.2: Goal Mapping (24 mins)
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2.3: Goal Oriented Models (1 hour 5 mins)
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2.4: Conversations: Community-Based Learning and Networking (6 mins)
Lesson 3: Users
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3.1: Interviews and Focus Groups (1 hour 9 mins)
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3.2: Personas and Card Sorting (40 mins)
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3.3: Hierarchical Cluster Analysis (43 mins)
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3.4: Paper Prototyping (16 mins)
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3.5: Conversations: Community-Based Learning and Networking (6 mins)
Lesson 4: Accessibility
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4.1: Web Accessibility (1 hour 45 mins)
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4.2: Conversations: Community-Based Learning and Networking (6 mins)
Lesson 5: Navigation and Content
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5.1: Navigation (1 hour 26 mins)
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5.2: Content (30 mins)
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5.3: Conversations: Community-Based Learning and Networking (6 mins)
Lesson 6: Visual Design
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6.1: Gestalt Principles and Grids (1 hour 13 mins)
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6.2: Layout Expectations (47 mins)
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6.3: Forms and Data Entry (50 mins)
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6.4: Conversations: Community-Based Learning and Networking (6 mins)
Lesson 7: Feedback
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7.1: Timing, Location and Meaning (1 hour 19 mins)
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7.2: Conversations: Community-Based Learning and Networking (6 mins)
Lesson 8: Testing
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8.1: Usability Testing (1 hour 11 mins)
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8.2: Conversations: Community-Based Learning and Networking (6 mins)
Lesson 9: Course Certificate, Final Networking, and Course Wrap-up
How Others Have Benefited
Maram Saber, Germany
“Awesome teaching method, the alternating between videos / articles was great and the examples were simple and easy to follow.”
Sebastian Steindl, Hong Kong
“The course offers a great introduction to basic principles of usability used in web design. It is clearly structured and presented in an easy-to-understand way.”
Pippa Alldritt, United Kingdom
“Clear, succinct, detailed and very likable instructor who makes the course easy and simple to pick up.”
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