Introduces the concepts and benefits of usability testing, which can improve ROI by focusing your design improvements in areas that have the biggest impact.

Discover how to design a user experience that's consistent and reliable from device to device: from phones and tablets to wearable tech.

Learn the basics of prototyping. Discover how to build prototypes that allow you to test and validate your UX designs.

Want to make better products? Learn how to use UX research to better inform your projects and build user-centric designs that truly delight your customers.

Learn how to apply storytelling principles to your UX design process and craft more engaging, user-centered experiences.

Learn how to create a style guide and design system that agencies, contractors, and staff can use to create user experiences that fit your brand.

Run your own basic usability testing to find out just what your users need from your website, application, or device.

Gain insights into a variety of user experience (UX) techniques and tools.

Learn how to maximize your resources and perform lean UX research in a fast-paced agile development environment.

Explore the fundamentals of planning, executing, and analyzing a card sort. Learn how to prepare your content, select and screen participants, analyze data, and more.

Learn the fundamentals of a core UX research method—interviewing—that can help you better understand the needs of your users.

Learn the fundamentals of guerrilla research, an efficient UX research approach that can help you inform your projects when time and budgets are limited.

One way to enhance customer experience and build better products is to plot your ideal customer’s journey chronologically. That way you can identify weak moments in the buying experience—and make those moments stronger. First, gather data about the pain points your customers face. Note how they find out about your business, compare competitors, and become a customer. When you document how this progression happens, you create a map you can use to make informed business decisions—a journey map. In this course, learn how to research and capture your customer's end-to-end journey through UX journey mapping. Market researcher and bestselling author Sarah Weise explains the elements of a journey map, how to gather data by conducting research with customers, and how to synthesize results. She covers how to identify opportunities to create products, experiences, and marketing that align your customer’s needs with your business goals.

Validate your ideas faster using the lean startup methodology. Learn the fundamentals of conducting lean experiments to guide design and product decisions.

Studying your customers’ experience—especially as they interact with your product or brand in the context of their lives—leads to discoveries that help you make strong business, product, and UX decisions. In this course, learn how to capture snapshots of the moments that matter by conducting mobile diary studies through text, screen recording, or selfie videos. Sarah Weise explains this qualitative research technique to gather real-life data from customers in a way that will meet your UX or market research goals. Using data gathered in mobile diary studies, you can make value-based decisions by mapping a customer’s journey, identifying buyer touch points, understanding how to segment your audience, conducting exploratory research, and more. By the end of this course, you’ll be ready to perform mobile diary studies that result in actionable and meaningful insights.

Learn about how to use UXPin, the design and prototyping tool, to design documentation and create accurate wireframes and prototypes for your user experience (UX) projects.

Learn how to use UXPin to manage design sprints and stakeholder design reviews.

Discover how to use UXPin for a developer workflow. Learn how to design and iterate through ideas for apps and interactions.

Master features of the V-Ray 3.0 rendering engine and learn how to extend the range of 3ds Max with advanced V-Ray tools, such as progressive sampling and hair and skin shaders.

Learn the essentials of V-Ray 5, the fifth version of the popular third-party render engine inside 3ds Max