Course description

Designing a digital product is a complex discipline. In this course, we will focus on the basics of user experience and interface design. You will learn several methods, principles and approaches that help you to move beyond pixels and narrow your career to the world-leading companies. You don't have to be an IT expert to learn the way you should look at the digital products from the user perspective and you don't have to be a designer to start working as a UX specialist.

You're going to experience a master class together with a workshop every day. Each day is going to be dedicated to the different design methods and exercises where you'll learn through learning by doing. No matter if you are an absolute beginner or skilled designer, the depth and width of gained knowledge will be based on your own pace.

This course is followed by Design Thinking bootcamp. The bootcamp is dedicated to the use of the Design thinking methodology on a real project to strengthen skills like collaboration, uncertainty, iterations and critical thinking. Joining both courses is recommended because The Designing digital products course helps you to gain a craft where the Design thinking bootcamp deals with philosophy and collaboration.

Learning outcomes

• Understanding phases and methods used for UX/UI design
• Turning ideas into a design concept
• Prototyping on different levels of fidelity in order to make ideas tangible for any digital project as mobile or web apps
• Validate ideas before proposing a solution

Daily breakdown

Day 1

Lecture: What's digital design? Exploring and understanding the complexity of digital design and how influence a world around us.

Practice:

• Defining individual study plan for the following 10 days
• Experiencing ethnography techniques in practice with focus on mystery shopping or shadowing

Day 2 & 3

Lecture: Evaluating and Ideating

Practice:

• Defining insights & challenges - understanding the real nature of problems
• Brainstorming techniques to become truly creative