Showing 232 classes for "UX design"

A Hands-On Introduction to Building Wireframes

General Assembly @ 902 Broadway, New York, NY

This intensive evening workshop will provide an overview of the theory and practice of building wireframes and will also introduce the principles and rationale for creating wireframes in the user centered design process of a software project. Students will learn software tools for designing wireframes and ways to evaluate the effectiveness of wireframes based on customer feedback. Students will also gain hands-on experience planning and designing...

Recruiting User Research Participants

General Assembly @ 10 E 21st St, New York, NY

In this workshop, you’ll learn techniques for creating a pipeline of representative members of a product’s target audience who are willing, capable, and available to participate in research. Recruiting unbiased, representative participants for your research ensures the validity and reliability of the data and feedback you gather. You’ll do this by creating a screening questionnaire, and utilizing Facebook, Twitter, and Google Plus to launch...

miLES Do Tank

Do Tank

The miLES Do Tank is an action-oriented design thinking course, tied to a challenge to translate learnings into local impact. In collaboration with Foossa, Makeshift, NYU Design for America, and Tenement Museum, the Do Tank cultivates a group of people with varied skillsets to work together on a real-world issue, from collaborative ideation to collaborative creation. This 14-weeks program for young professionals and graduate students is facilitated...

User Experience Design Bootcamp (Online)

General Assembly

Our industry-leading campus bootcamp is coming online, to wherever you are. In one day, you’ll work with user experience (UX) design experts learning to craft digital products and experiences that anticipate user’s needs — and keep them coming back. As technology changes and companies compete for customers’ time, providing users an enjoyable experience is critical to both attracting and keeping them loyal. Digital, human-centered products...

Understanding Mobile User Experience

General Assembly @ 10 E 21st St, New York, NY

This lecture looks at the touch points (get it?) we as creators have with our users and their mobile devices. The talk covers new mediums we get to play with and how old ones have changed. There will be a strong emphasis on usability principles and how designing an experience should be applied at all stages of creation and then after it is in the wild. We go through documents a dedicated ux designer would create and a slew of examples including...

How to Master High Quality User Experience for Games

Playcrafting NYC

This session will cover examples of poor usability in games, ways that Catt solved UX design problems in games, and resources for immediately improving usability in your game. Quality user experience (UX) design is crucial for avoiding mechanics, interfaces, and situations that frustrate players. What can we learn from UX design to make video games more usable, and therefore more fun? Catt Small, a UX Designer and game maker, will share ways to...

Sketch Foundations

Awesome Design School @ 425 Broadway, New York, NY

Sketch is an outstanding UX/UI and Visual Design tool that is fast, easy to use and a great alternative to adobe applications. This design program is cutting edge and empowering users in Visual Design, UX, Vector Graphics and more.  Our intensive all day workshop will help designers with little or no experience be effective and resourceful users of Sketch. Together we will learn the basics of the Sketch 4 program, how to work with the key tools...

Adobe Experience Design (XD) in a Day

Noble Desktop @ 185 Madison Ave, New York, NY

Sketch in a Day

Noble Desktop @ 185 Madison Ave, New York, NY

You’ll learn to design web layouts for mobile, tablet, and desktop (or screens for apps) using text, graphics, styles, and more. With artboards and layout guides, you can design on popular grid systems (like Bootstrap), making it easier to design responsive webpages. Symbols are where Sketch really shines. They let you reuse design elements (such as buttons) while allowing each instance to be customized. Being able to globally update symbols...

WordPress Level 1

ONLC Training Centers @ 2 Park Ave, New York, NY & Virtually Online

Master the fundamentals of a powerful content management system and unleash your website-building potential with expert guidance. Elevate your digital skills and create stunning WordPress websites with ease.

Photoshop Animated GIFs

Noble Desktop @ 185 Madison Ave, New York, NY

With the rise of mobile devices, animated GIFs have regained popularity because they just work (unlike Flash animations which do not work on mobile devices). GIFs are an easy solution for short animations. Photoshop lets you create numerous types of animations. Learn how to hide and show elements, fading them in or out, move things from one place to another, use Photoshop’s video timeline, and more. You’ll even add short video clips, and learn...

Educational Game Design Workshop

Playcrafting NYC @ 11 Times Square, New York, NY

This is a bi-monthly game design workshop where students can bring their in-progress educational games for feedback and suggestions. Each class will address a cluster of topics in educational game design (game mechanics, UI/UX, pedagogy) but we will focus mostly on your goals and ideas. If you don't already have a game in development, we can work together to find a way to take whatever subject you are passionate about and find the game in that...

Intro to Adobe XD (Experience Design)

Noble Desktop @ 185 Madison Ave, New York, NY

Critical Brainstorm: Design Thinking Bootcamp

General Assembly @ 10 E 21st St, New York, NY

Design Thinking is a popular framework for using design methods to solve a wide range of business problems. It emphasizes empathy building, information visualization, and brainstorming, among other techniques to solve problems and find solutions within groups and organizations. With this brain-based approach to design thinking, you’ll learn a framework grounded in science that helps you understand why it works and techniques for effective practice....

SketchUp Level 2 - Beyond the Basics

ONLC Training Centers @ 2 Park Ave, New York, NY

Take your SketchUp skills to the next level with an in-depth exploration of Layout, time-saving plugins, and photorealistic rendering in this advanced course. Ideal for those ready to enhance their SketchUp proficiency.

Understanding Information Architecture

General Assembly @ 10 E 21st St, New York, NY

This class will explore well-architected digital experiences and will provide a broad introduction to a useful set of tools and ideas that provide a framework under which user and business insight can be harvested and used in pursuit of real business goals. Information architecture (IA) once was practiced as a sort of web-era librarianship. It was about organizing the information contained within websites to make things easier to find and use....

AutoCAD 2014: Creating and Presenting 3D Models

NetCom Learning

Design & Society Workshop

Implosion Labs @ 495 Flatbush Ave, Brooklyn, NY

Design is a dominant paradigm for building and understanding the modern world. The language of design is especially prominent in the digital realm, where its assumptions influence how we interact with the world and with each other. But how has design come to matter? Why does it seem like such an important tool in our current cultural moment? What norms and assumptions inform the design of everyday technologies via design schools like UX? And what...

Graphic Design

Ashcan Studio of Art @ 45 E 34th St, New York, NY

This class will provide an overview of the design communication process including conceptualization, creative processes, typography, and technology. Students will gain skills in digital Illustration, Photoshop, page layout, image-scanning and image manipulation. Graphic design elements of typography, production, color separation, digital printing processes and photography will also be addressed. *materials included

Drawing

Ashcan Studio of Art @ 45 E 34th St, New York, NY

This course is designed for art beginners, mainly focused on fundamental descriptive drawing concepts and techniques in various media, including pen, pencil, ink, graphite, and charcoal. You will learn how to render line and value, perspective, and other basic techniques and concepts.