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

Get up and running with the V-Ray Next rendering engine inside 3ds Max. Learn how to leverage the many tools and features found in this powerful rendering solution.

Explore the rendering workflow in V-Ray Next for Unreal, the game-changing render engine offering offline and real-time photographic rendering.

Learn how to limit, contain, or prevent color bleed when working with global illumination renders.

Learn how to determine a customer’s required outcomes and measure activities and outputs to prove the value of your solution in helping to attain those outcomes.

Explore the benefits of value-based pricing, a strategy in which you set prices based on the perceived value to customers instead of on cost.

Deepen your understanding of values and ethics by evaluating scenarios where competing demands throw corporate values into conflict.

Ajax is the backbone of high-performance web apps. Learn how to use vanilla JavaScript, Ajax, and APIs like Fetch and XHR to request and handle data and modify webpage content.

Animate content with JavaScript and native web technologies. Explore how to configure and animate DOM elements, animate within the HTML5 canvas, and use the Web Animations API.