Professional Certificate
UX Design Course Chicago
Earn a UX design (AKA User Experience Design) certification to accelerate your career in UX design with cutting-edge skills. Learn design thinking, wireframes, interactive prototyping, Figma, and more, and complete hands-on projects to add to your professional portfolio.
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- Tuition details and scholarships
- Financing options
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BrainStation made all the difference... I applied the same design framework we learned in class to multiple passion projects and freelance gigs for over a year after I finished the course.
Angie Kwan
Product Designer at Uber Eats
Learn Essential UX Design Skills Live, Led by Experienced Design Leaders
UX Designers craft exceptional experiences within digital products, playing a critical role within the digital world. In this course, discover the UX design process and learn best practices for conducting research, creating wireframes, and applying user-centered design principles to create experience-focused digital solutions.
Format
Online classroom. Live and expert-led.
Skill Level
Ideal for learners looking to upskill.
Real Outcomes
Build an interview-ready portfolio project.
Professional Certificate
Earn a BrainStation UX Design Certificate.
Upcoming Course Dates & Campuses
Due to COVID-19, some courses are currently being held online.
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| June 14 August 15 | August 15 | 10 Tuesdays | 8:30pm - 11:30pm CDT | Enroll Now | |
| June 14 August 16 | August 16 | 10 Tuesdays | 12:30pm - 3:30pm CDT | Enroll Now | |
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| August 18 October 20 | October 20 | 10 Thursdays | 12:30pm - 3:30pm CDT | Enroll Now |
This Course is Offered Online in Chicago
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| July 5 September 6 | September 6 | 10 Tuesdays | 6:30pm - 9:30pm EDT | Enroll Now | |
| August 1 October 17 | October 17 | 10 Mondays | 6:30pm - 9:30pm EDT | Enroll Now |
This Course is Offered Online in Miami
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| June 14 August 16 | August 16 | 10 Tuesdays | 6:30pm - 9:30pm BST | Enroll Now | |
| August 1 October 10 | October 10 | 10 Mondays | 6:30pm - 9:30pm BST | Enroll Now |
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| August 3 October 5 | October 5 | 10 Wednesdays | 6:30pm - 9:30pm EDT | Enroll Now |
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Unit 1
UX Research & Strategy
Good user experience design starts with good research and strategy to address user problems. Learn the foundational concepts of Design Thinking and human-centered design, which are critical, early concepts that will inform your work. Learn how to complete effective research and develop user personas based on the insights you’ve gathered. This unit covers the essential foundations of the design process, to ensure you’re setting yourself up for success as you embark on your UX design journey.
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Figma
- Key Skills:
- Design Thinking
- User Research
- UX Personas
- UX Research & Planning
Learn and Apply Design Thinking
Learn and apply Design Thinking and human-centered design principles: two essential frameworks for any aspiring UX designer.
Perform Effective User Research
The foundation of great design is an excellent understanding of your users. Learn how UX designers perform research and usability testing to set you up for success.
Develop User Personas That Work
Learn to combine your user data into user personas that allow you and your team to empathize with users and create UX designs that serve them.
Unit 2
Structuring & Planning Design Solutions
With a strong understanding of your users, you’re ready to begin structuring your solution. Learn the tools to accelerate your workflow, including card sorting, tree testing, and more, through hands-on projects designed to help you begin building useful wireflows to explore solutions and demonstrate them to others. Explore interaction design and, by applying an iterative approach as part of your design process, you’ll be on the path of great UX designers.
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Figma
- Key Skills:
- Information Architecture
- Content Audits
- User & Task Flows
- Sketching
- Interaction Design
Build Information Architecture
Learn how to perform a content audit and leverage it to create an information architecture – an important step for any great user experience design. Gain knowledge of hierarchy and relationship mapping to help you organize information to improve both your design and the user experience.
Learn and Apply Design Exercises
Learn tools like card sorting and tree testing: common design exercises that help you explore potential solutions and take your first steps toward an effective design.
Apply Iterative Design Processes
Discover best practices with user flows and wireflows. Learn how these helpful tools fit into the UX design process and allow you to explore potential solutions and iterate toward a great web design.
Unit 3
Visual Design & Building Prototypes
Iterative design means developing higher-fidelity designs as concepts are demonstrated and tested. Get hands-on practice creating wireframes of different fidelities, and use them to build interactive prototypes to test the user experience you've designed. Learn the basics of user interface design to understand how to convert your wireframes into full-fidelity final designs.
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Figma
- Key Skills:
- Interactive Prototyping
- Wireframing
- Visual Design
- Interface Design
Create Wireframes in Multiple Fidelities
Learn how to create low-fidelity wireframes and iterate on them until you have high-fidelity concepts for your UX design.
Build Interactive Prototypes to See Your Designs in Action
Using industry-standard tools, build interactive prototypes that allow you to click through your wireframe concepts and experience your design first-hand.
Discover User Interface Design Fundamentals
Understand the role user interface design plays in a digital experience, and explore fundamental UI concepts including grids, typography, type hierarchy, and style guides.
Unit 4
Elevating & Communicating Design Solutions
To complete this UX design curriculum, learn the core components of usability and how to complete user testing throughout the design process. Explore accessibility principles and how to create inclusive designs.
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Stark
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Tota11y
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Material Design Color Tool
- Key Skills:
- Usability
- User Testing
- Heuristics
- Design Systems
- Accessibility
- Design Presentations
How to Design and Test for Usability
Discover the core components of usability and the 10 usability heuristics for user interface design. Learn how to complete usability testing throughout each stage of the UX process to support the iterative development of your designs.
Learn Accessibility Principles
Accessibility ensures designs are inclusive. Learn the role design plays in creating accessible solutions by understanding the diversity of abilities; such as auditory, cognitive, physical, and more; and use this understanding to inform your designs.
Taught by Experienced Industry Experts
BrainStation Instructors are experienced practitioners who work at the world's most innovative companies. They're experts in their field, and enter the classroom with years of experience making sure you're learning the most up-to-date and practical skills companies around the world need.
Built With Experts From The World's Most Innovative Companies
BrainStation partners with industry experts when building all of our courses, ensuring every course covers the latest industry-relevant topics and tools businesses need. We continue to work with our network of experts to update our courses so they're always up to date.
Build and Showcase Your UX Design Professional Portfolio Project
Showcase everything you've learned with a real-world, professional portfolio project by creating an interactive prototype for a solution of your choosing. Every week, you'll be provided with clear steps to iteratively develop your final project. By the end of the course, you'll have created a highly usable, functional, and delightful solution and be able to present your UX design strategy and process.
View Tuition, Financing Options, and More in the Program Package
View the Course Package to access:
- Tuition details and scholarships
- Financing options
- Employer sponsorship
Earn a BrainStation UX Design Certificate
Upon completing BrainStation's UX Design Course, you'll receive an industry-recognized professional certificate to share with your network and showcase all that you've learned. BrainStation certificates are formatted for sharing on LinkedIn.
What Our Graduates Are Saying
Dylan Hebb
Senior Consultant at Content Bloom
When you take a BrainStation course, you're learning with some of the very best in the industry. You collaborate with product managers, digital strategists, UX designers, and all kinds of other backgrounds.
#brainstation #BeFutureProof #LearningAtBrainStation #remotelearning
Andrew Gosine
Product Designer
Our instructor... was clear, detail oriented, and made the learning environment safe and collaborative. We got a lot of real world examples from him, and all the little details he shared made this entire course special, and more than simply reading a textbook.
Overall, I'm a big advocate for Brainstation's courses - they've proved to be extremely valuable in my career.
Angie Kwan
Product Designer at Uber Eats
The highlight for me was the moment when it clicked that I definitely wanted to pursue design – it was 3:00 AM, while I was sitting in my bed, furiously working away in Sketch on my final project. I realized I was doing all of this work purely out of my own free will because I was passionate about it... These projects helped me build a strong portfolio to land the job I dreamed of.
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Andaleeb Rizwan
Graphic Designer
Brainstation's UX Design course gave me the complete understanding of the field of UX which I was looking to get... The structure was friendly and the instructors were very helpful with explaining concepts, giving real world examples and answering questions during class and later, on Slack. If you're looking for a good understanding of UX, this course is it!
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Frequently Asked Questions
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Will I earn a UX design certificate from this course?
Yes, when you complete the UX Design course, you'll earn a BrainStation UX Design certificate. UX course certificates can boost your LinkedIn profile and resume, helping you stand out in the job market to potential employers when applying for UX, UI, and user research job openings. A UX Design certification can help your job search regardless of if you're looking for an entry-level job or more, and can help you build your professional network.
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What payment options do you offer for UX design courses?
BrainStation offers some of the most competitive payment options for UX design training, with a range of flexible plans and scholarship opportunities.
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Monthly payment installments
Allowing you to split your tuition into smaller monthly payments.
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Employer sponsorship
Get your tuition reimbursed by your employer.
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Scholarships
We offer a range of scholarships to make learning UX design more accessible.
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Monthly payment installments
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Are there any prerequisites for this UX Design course?
BrainStation's UX Design course was created for those who are new to UI or UX design, and can be considered beginner-friendly. There are no set prerequisites for this course.
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Do you need a UX Design background to take this course?
By enrolling in the UX Design course, whether it's an online UX design course or on-campus, you can expect to learn from an Instructor with experience in the UX and UI design field, and to collaborate with like-minded, ambitious professionals keen to boost their UX design skills.
From an educational point of view, 80 percent of learners at BrainStation have a post-secondary education, with 20 percent having earned a Master's degree or PhD.
Professional backgrounds vary quite a bit, as an increasing amount of individuals – from development to marketing – are looking to add design know-how to boost their career toolkit.
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What UX design tools will we learn in BrainStation’s UX Design course?
Throughout the UX Design course, you will learn to work with UX design tools that will take your digital design skills to the next level.
Get hands-on experience with design tools taught in this course, including Figma, InVision, and more. You'll also have the chance to try out motion graphics, mood boards, and accessibility testers that will help you effectively plan a stimulating and inclusive design.
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Can I take this course online?
Yes, you can take BrainStation's UX Design course online.
BrainStation's online UX Design courses are taught by leading industry experts in a live, interactive classroom environment. Our project-based online course encourages collaboration and communication between classmates, who work together on cross-disciplinary teams to create real-life projects that eventually become the basis of their professional portfolio.
Students in our online UX design courses stay in touch with each other and instructors alike through BrainStation's industry-leading student learning platform, as well as a lively Slack community, which provides support and updates even beyond graduation.
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How Long Are BrainStation's UX Design Courses?
BrainStation's UX design course is typically five-to-10 weeks long depending on the delivery format, as students can choose whether to take courses on weekends or evenings.
In that time, you will master core UX concepts, learn how to guide the UX design process from the initial UX research phase all the way to product launch, and ultimately complete hands-on projects designed to build the kind of professional portfolio UX Designers need.
UX Design 101
What Is the Difference Between UI and UX design?
UX design is the craft of making a user's experience as effective, efficient, and pleasant as possible, especially when interacting with digital products. UI design, on the other hand, refers to all the visual design elements the users of a website, mobile apps, or piece of software (or mobile device, or even appliance) interact with.
Essentially, UX design refers to the process of designing products with the user in mind. UX design has proven critical in mobile app design, smart watches, and even physical objects.
The "UI" in "UI design" stands for "user interface." UI design, therefore, has a narrower focus than UX design, which concerns a user's entire journey from beginning to end. These two specialties must work seamlessly together to create a strong user experience.
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This hands-on course allows you to experience the design thinking process through an iterative series of exercises that will prepare you to apply Design Thinking to a wide range of challenges. Design Thinking has emerged as an essential tool for all kinds of designers, and complements the material covered in BrainStation's UX Design course.
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