I’ve been doing UX/UI for almost 15 years and wanted to get some formal qualifications behind me. I found The Interaction Design Foundation (IxDF) courses awesome for filling in some of the gaps in my UX knowledge. It helped to balance out my practical skills with time-tested design and research theory. As it says in their name, The Interaction Design Foundation provides a really solid foundation for UX. IxDF focused on the fundamentals so the skills you learn would still be relevant years from now. There’s a mixture of multiple questions, short essays, videos, knowledge sharing with other students and optional exercises to help grow your skills and portfolio. For the price and quality, it has been a great investment and worth every penny.
I’ve recently signed up to do some online UX study via the Interaction Design Foundation (IxDF) over the next few months. The idea is to spend at least 30 minutes each day working towards getting over 30 UX certifications behind me.
To date, I have completed courses on Accessibility, Agile Methodologies, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Augmented and Virtual Reality Design (AR/VR), Dashboards, Design Thinking, Gamification, Gestalt Psychology, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Information Visualization, Interaction Design, Journey Mapping, Mobile UX Strategy, Mobile User Experience (UX), Perception and Memory in HCI/UX, Psychology of E-Commerce, UI Design Systems and Patterns, Usability Testing, User Experience, User Research Methods, UX Management Strategy, Visual Design and Web Design.
UX Certifications so far include:
- AI for Designers
- Agile Methods for UX Design
- Mobile UX Design: The Beginner’s Guide
- Mobile UI Design
- Design for Thought and Emotion
- Service Design: How to Design Integrated Service Experiences
- Mobile UX Strategy: How to Build Successful Products
- Visual Design: The Ultimate Guide
- Perception and Memory in HCI and UX
- Human-Computer Interaction: The Foundations of UX Design
- Journey Mapping
- UI Design Patterns for Successful Software
- Psychology of E-Commerce: How to Sell Online
- How to Create a UX Portfolio
- Get Your Product Used: Adoption and Appropriation
- Gestalt Psychology and Web Design: The Ultimate Guide
- How to Design for Augmented and Virtual Reality
- How to Create Intuitive Products by Imitating Physicality
- Information Visualization: Getting Dashboards Right
- Gamification – Creating Addictive User Experiences
- How to Become a Freelance Designer
- Conducting Usability Testing
- Interaction Design for Usability
- Web Design for Usability
- Accessibility: How to Design for All
- Mobile User Experience (UX) Design
- UX Management: Strategy and Tactics
- User Research – Methods and Best Practices
- User Experience: The Beginner’s Guide
- Human-Computer Interaction – HCI
- Design Thinking: The Beginner’s Guide
- Become a UX Designer from Scratch
AI for Designers
Empower yourself with cutting-edge skills that will enable you to both seamlessly incorporate artificial intelligence (AI) tools into your design process and learn the basics of how to design for AI – view certificate
Agile Methods for UX Design
Learn both the theory and the real-world implementation of agile, its different flavours, and how you can work with different versions of agile teams – view certificate
Mobile UX Design: The Beginner’s Guide
Mobile UX design skills are now an essential part of any UX designer’s skill set. This course will provide you with the foundations of mobile UX so that you can break into this extensive market – view certificate
Mobile UI Design
A strong UI design is essential for the success of a digital product in today’s saturated market. Mobile devices’ screen real estate is small, and people are on the move, so a good UI is even more crucial. You’ll learn to encourage task completion and to make your products intuitive and easy to use – view certificate
Design for Thought and Emotion
Interactive systems are more than just functional. If we hope to engage more effectively with our users, user experience is crucial. To create successful user experiences, we need to know how humans think and feel – view certificate
Service Design: How to Design Integrated Service Experiences
In a service design process, you use an in-depth understanding of the business and its customers to ensure that all the touchpoints of your service are perfect and, just as importantly, that your organization can deliver a great service experience every time. It’s not just about designing the customer interactions; you also need to design the entire ecosystem surrounding those interactions – view certificate
Mobile UX Strategy: How to Build Successful Products
Create user-friendly mobile experiences that captivate and engage your users like never before! Transform your ideas into highly successful products with this comprehensive course on Mobile UX Strategy – view certificate
Visual Design: The Ultimate Guide
gain a holistic understanding of visual design and increase your knowledge of visual principles, colour theory, typography, grid systems and history. You’ll also learn why visual design is so important, how history influences the present, and practical applications to improve your work. These insights will help you to achieve the best possible user experience – view certificate
Perception and Memory in HCI and UX
A large part of human interaction relies on perception, our ability to sense the world around us. But we also need to join perceived events together, which is where memory comes in – view certificate
Human-Computer Interaction: The Foundations of UX Design
How to create an experience map, customer journey map and service blueprint. An understanding of the three most common types of journey maps and why they work so well – view certificate
Journey Mapping
How to create an experience map, customer journey map and service blueprint. An understanding of the three most common types of journey maps and why they work so well – view certificate
UI Design Patterns for Successful Software
Implement design patterns that facilitate people’s needs in a way that is ethically sound—for instance by avoiding dark patterns that manipulate people’s behaviors – view certificate
Psychology of E-Commerce: How to Sell Online
Design e-commerce websites which increase customer retention and loyalty in an ethical manner – view certificate
How to Create a UX Portfolio
How to craft compelling UX case studies that tell a story and motivate recruiters to invite you for job interviews – view certificate
Get Your Product Used: Adoption and Appropriation
Manage a product’s path of use from introduction to the market and onwards to ensure that it’s constantly relevant to its customer base – view certificate
Gestalt Psychology and Web Design: The Ultimate Guide
Create complex interface designs that are visually intuitive to understand and operate by applying Gestalt principles – view certificate
How to Design for Augmented and Virtual Reality
Design engaging user experiences for augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) through the use of storytelling techniques – view certificate
How to Create Intuitive Products by Imitating Physicality
Learning how to design intuitive and easy-to-use products by taking inspiration from physicality – view certificate
Information Visualization: Getting Dashboards Right
Present complex and abstract data in a visual way which is easy for people to understand – view certificate
Gamification – Creating Addictive User Experiences
Create immersive player experiences that help contribute towards business goals and performance – view certificate
How to Become a Freelance Designer
Super practical advice on how to run and set up a design business, attract clients and market your services – view certificate
Conducting Usability Testing
An overview of how to create test scripts, interview and run usability tests – view certificate
Interaction Design for Usability
A more in-depth look into interaction design and usability – view certificate
Web Design for Usability
A short introduction to web usability – view certificate
Accessibility: How to Design for All
Really challenging and eye-opening course to learn more about inclusive design and accessibility – view certificate
Mobile User Experience (UX) Design
Great advice on aspects to remember when designing for smaller screens and devices – view certificate
UX Management: Strategy and Tactics
Great practical advice on how to grow your company’s UX maturity and balancing users’ needs with business objectives and ROI. Highly recommend – view certificate
User Research — Methods and Best Practices
Really practical advice on how to carry out UX research and the various techniques – view certificate
User Experience: The Beginner’s Guide
This is the course that goes before the “Become a UX Designer from Scratch” – view certificate
Human-Computer Interaction – HCI
This was a pretty advanced course and highlighted some areas I need to learn more about – view certificate
Design Thinking: The Beginner’s Guide
This course alone is enough to justify the cost of the yearly membership – view certificate
Become a UX Designer from Scratch
This course did an excellent job of filling in some of the gaps in my UX knowledge and provided a solid foundation to build upon – view certificate
