Remote User Experience Design Diploma Program
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Learn from experienced UX/UI Designers
Build a standout portfolio with real projects
Set and achieve goals with our career team
Program Overview
Prepare for a career as a UX Designer
BrainStation's User Experience program is an immersive, project-based learning experience, designed to transform your skillset and launch a new career in design.
The program's curriculum is challenging, comprehensive, and constantly updated, ensuring you are always learning cutting-edge UX/UI design concepts, skills, and tools. Led by Educators with experience in the field, you will develop and work on a fully realized mobile app, in the process building a portfolio of completed projects.
By program's end, you will have the skills, experience, and confidence needed to dive into a career in UX design.
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Get Your Dream Job in Tech
$96k
Average UX Designer Salary in the United States
BrainStation Online Live Full Time programs are provided by BrainStation LP, based in New York.
How You'll Learn
BrainStation provides an unmatched online learning experience, with a world-class, data-driven learning platform, engaging live classes that emphasize collaboration and feedback, and comprehensive training and development resources.
Attend Live Lectures
Learn in-demand skills with engaging live lectures, and then apply them immediately, working on projects in a collaborative, online setting.
Get Real-Time Feedback
Get personalized feedback and guidance from Educators with experience working in the field.
Connect with Your Peers
Build real-world connections collaborating with like-minded professionals and experts from around the world.
Leverage Synapse
Use Synapse, BrainStation's intuitive, data-driven learning platform to access course content, as well as additional quizzes, challenges, and resources.
Your Student Journey
Your student journey begins with a free prep course, which will introduce fundamental UX design concepts. As you move through the program, our team will continue to work with you, providing career guidance and professional development, every step of the way.
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Prep-Course
At your own pace
What You'll Learn
User Experience Fundamentals
Understand the multiple facets of User Experience Design, including the principles of Design Thinking and Human Centered Design. You will complete a design challenge that will illustrate your ability to organize unstructured information and create a functional design for your user.
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Program
12 weeks
What You'll Learn
User Experience Design Fundamentals
Participate in a class-wide design sprint where you will gain hands on experience with Sprint Methodology. You will identify the problem space, develop solutions, and create wireframes and prototypes while using professional design tools including Sketch and InVision.
User Research and Strategy
Plan and conduct user research to understand behavior, needs, and motivation. You will then learn how to translate your findings into relevant project requirements and product designs.
Design Research and Strategy
Plan and conduct user research to understand behavior, needs, and motivation. Communicate complex interactions visually through experience maps, featuring personas that represent real users. Continue to build a core foundation in design research through Information Architecture and the creation of Task Flows. Translate your findings into product design using wireframing and prototyping.
User Interface Design
Build upon your knowledge of usability design to master the nuances of typography, colour, illustration and images. Use industry tools including Sketch to design professional interfaces. Learn methods for designing and maintaining user interface pattern libraries.
Responsive Design
Apply industry standard design principles to create both low and high fidelity applications and websites. Utilize grids and breakpoints in the design process to ensure your projects are responsive across various screen sizes, guaranteeing a seamless experience.
Professional Development
Use high fidelity design mockups to provide realistic visualizations of your projects in a functional and visually appealing portfolio that demonstrates your end-to-end understanding of the design process. Finally, understand the latest industry trends and tools to market your skills in the UX Design job market.
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Career Support
Once you have completed the program, our career team will continue to work with you to refine your portfolio, optimize your resume, build industry connections, and interview for a role in your new field.
Career Services
Preparing you for your career
Your experience at BrainStation will allow you to gain the confidence and knowledge needed to launch your new career. Have questions about our career services? with an Advisor
Build Your Portfolio
As part of the program, you will build an impressive portfolio of completed projects, showcasing the skills you have developed.
Prepare for Interviews
To get you ready for the interview process, you will be interviewed by a Hiring Manager and a UX/UI Designer, and provided with feedback.
Gain Industry Insights
You will have the chance to build meaningful connections, collaborating virtually with like-minded professionals and industry experts.
Receive Career Path Guidance
Our Student Success Team will work closely with you throughout your student journey, helping you set goals and ensuring you're on track to meet them.
Connect with world-class companies
“At BrainStation, I went from ‘never-touched-design-software-before,' to presenting my final projects with confidence. I was lucky enough to get interviews right away - I started to work full-time in the field a month after my graduation.”
Application Details
How to Apply
BrainStation selects individuals who are committed to earning a career in UX design, and who will thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative learning environment.
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Speak with a Learning Advisor
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Submit an Online Application
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Complete the Prep Course
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Meet our Team for an Interview
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Acceptance