UX/UI Curriculum

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In today’s digital landscape, employers across industries and looking for innovators and creative thinkers with the skills to transform business through imaginative interfaces and engaging user experiences.

At University of Utah Professional Education UX/UI Boot Camp, you’ll learn both the theory and tools used by modern designers, employing user-centric design and a wealth of creative tools to build dynamic experiences.

Through immersive hands-on experience, you will not only learn the fundamental skills for UX research/UI design but also demonstrate those skills on complex projects that bolster your portfolio.


UX/UI Part-Time

User Experience Design

Description:

Learn to understand the user journey through leading research techniques and methodologies.

What You Will Learn:

  • User-centered design
  • Design research methods
  • Figma / Figjam
  • UX interviewing
  • Brainstorming, ideation, and insight synthesis
  • Personas, archetypes, and storytelling creation
  • Decision and journey mapping
  • Prototyping and iterative design
  • Accessibility and usability
  • Usability testing
  • Project management

User Interface Design

Description:

A deep dive into the necessary skills, technologies, and frameworks designers need to master in order to create functional and engaging web and mobile applications.

What You Will Learn:

  • User Interface (UI) design
  • Heuristic analysis
  • HTML and CSS
  • Responsive web design (RWD)
  • Bootstrap and RWD design
  • UI patterns and libraries
  • Branding and consistency
  • Color, typography, and iconography
  • Information architecture
  • Layout and navigation design
  • Design systems and components
  • Multimodal design

Web Prototyping and Interaction Design

Description:

Create live web applications as full-fledged prototypes and experiment with more complex user interactions.

What You Will Learn:

  • Web portfolios and case studies
  • Design interviewing
  • Whiteboard challenges
  • Web Hosting and no-code technologies
  • JavaScript
  • Presenting and pitching ideas
  • RWD prototyping
  • Collaborative development and design handoff