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Real World UX | Learn User Experience & Start Your Career (Udemy.com)

UX based on real world examples. Gain powerful UX skills you can use to start a UX career or improve your projects.

Created by: Brendan Bolton-Klinger

Last updated September 2023

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What you will learn

  • Gain UX skills you can immediately apply to improve your projects and career
  • Learn how to conduct effective and useful research
  • Understand how to apply UX Strategy to set goals and define success
  • Learn what you need to know before you start designing
  • Learn to sketch smarter
  • Learn to effectively and persuasively present your work
  • Tips and guidance on staying up to date in the field (and entering it too!)
  • Impactful portfolio pieces (if you complete the projects.)
  • A complete, practical real-world foundation in UX

How it compares

Against the other 144 rated Udemy courses in UX Design on CourseDuck:

  • Rating4.3 out of 5higher than 31% of them
  • Reviews1,925#28 of 145 by number of reviews
  • Length5.5 hourslonger than 66% of them
  • Last updatedSeptember 2023more recently than 65% of them

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Overall Score : 86 / 100

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Course Description

Here's what students have said:

"This course is the most valuable UX course I've ever bought on Udemy!" - Jody T.

"Brendan's course is AMAZING! It helped me land my first UX job!" - Phillip C.

"First course, which I found useful from practical point of view. Not just some broad, abstract philosophical narrative about UX." - Viacheslav M.

"Great instructor! He's able to deconstruct complex ideas and easily break them down into digestible content. I really recommend this course for UX practitioners of all levels." - Nutte

"After viewing Brendan's lectures and completing the project, I felt much more confident about entering the field of UX and my project ended up being one of the best pieces in my portfolio. I used it during an interview to land my first internship" - Ana K.

"The instructor's enthusiasm shines through as does his deep UX knowledge and real life experience. Certainly one of the most thoroughly thought out and well presented courses I have experienced on Udemy. I believe this course is suitable for beginners and UX practitioners as each can get different outcomes based on experience." Simon C.

(All quotes from reviews below.)

Description:

User Experience, or UX, is an exciting field. It's essentially about empowering people to do the things they want to do, which is both fun and gratifying. And, having a great user experience drives business success.

Learning UX, however, can be a challenge. Since it's a relatively young field, there's no real gold standard yet for how things are practiced, or taught, which can frustrate people who are just trying to learn things the right way, in order to apply UX immediately to what they're doing, as well as students looking to become practitioners.

I created this course because I believe your time is precious, and you shouldn't have to hunt around to get a practical foundation in UX. Or watch 24 hours of videos. This course takes you through the key concepts and steps of UX, as they would occur across a real-world project, so you gain a complete understanding of how to practice UX - from Research, to Strategy, to Design. And the confidence that comes with these new skills.

There's a fair bit of material to share, but the content is mostly short, entertaining, to-the-point videos, followed by assignments where you'll apply what you're learning so it sinks in. And, I'm confident you'll like this material because I've already taught it to Thousands of professionals and university students who have enjoyed and benefited from it.

Whether you need to effectively learn UX and apply it immediately, or you're looking to supplement your skillset, or you're just curious about entering this fun and lucrative field, this course is designed for you

After taking the course you'll possess a powerful understanding of UX and the key activities related to the field. You'll also be able to take that knowledge, and put it to use to make better work and advance your career!  (And, you'll have some great portfolio pieces if you complete the assignments!)

See you in class!

- Brendan

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Instructor Details

Brendan Bolton-Klinger

Bolton-Klinger has taught User Experience (UX) and Interaction Design classes for almost two decades at University California Los Angeles, General Assembly, Pratt Institute, and School of Visual Arts.  He is a consultant, cofounder of several funded startups, and previously was UX Lead at Huge, specializing in the design of digital experiences, ranging from of mobile applications, to large transactional and content sites. When not doing UX or teaching, he keeps busy herding toddlers and dogs.

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Reviews

4.3

1,925 ratings on Udemy

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By Simon Pawar on 6/21/2020

This course provides a great learning experience for the overview of the UX, but positively speaking the title of this course is deceiving should be changed to instead something called Intro/Overview to UX & its skills. Moreover, Brendan great work and I appreciate the efforts you put in to make this course a very good start for the UX Beginners.

By Janice Ooi on 4/23/2020

Instructor had good case examples to illustrate each point of the chapters with downloadable templates for further reference and guidance from learning. This course is for people new to UX that wants to get insight on basic content and info along with on how to break into the job market. It covers majority of the UX terms but not all. Overall, Brandon did a good job of sharing his knowledge with the community. :)

By Selim Devirek on 3/27/2020

I had no idea what UX Design before I started this course. Complete beginner. This is a very comprehensive course about UX which is made simple by Mr. Bolton-Klinger. It's easy to understand so you don't have any question marks in your mind when you finish it - except if you are curious about one of the topics and want to do more comprehensive research on it-. It really gave me the courage to go out there and start from the bottom.

By Anthony Regalmuto on 8/21/2019

It was a good intro to UX. It was very in depth and practical application, which was great. Would have been nice to have it in a 1080 or higher resolution for airplay to my television without it looking as pixelated, but perhaps im just being nitpicky. Other than that, thanks for the course.

By Eyad Mohsen on 7/8/2018

As a conclusion i think it's fine as a material, but needs to improve in the slides design trends, and putting some infographics, may be the voice get better is fine, As an Ui designer i think making a visual index to follow in your documents is a good idea, thank you

By Mateja Kardasic on 3/26/2018

I think this course is useful and applicable to the real world. The concept of doing your own project as you progress through the course is great since you are creating your very first portfolio piece - which is very useful to start a UX career. I think the instructor is very experienced and offers great tips. :-)

By Emanuele Dancelli on 9/15/2017

On the plus side there are lots of examples and you can come up with a somewhat real workflow. On the down I think a lot of aspect of UX are missing and/or tread really superficially. Nice course but not too deep. Things I didn't like but I didn't take into account for the final vote: the slides, oh the horror. I found it really boring from time to time, not really engaging.

By Georgi Lazarov on 9/9/2017

This is the greatest UX course I've ever taken, even for a complete beginner its suitable. Not only that, but I will most likely go back to it in different levels in my career since, the lectures here are so comprehensive and perfectly present the information needed for the creation of the "perfect" UX design process. Overall, this course is a holy grail for user experience, since it elegantly fulfills it role in providing information for the upcoming UXer. Cannot recommend it enough!

By Nerida Lennon on 7/21/2016

This course is ideal for building practical knowledge, skills and outcomes (e.g. portfolio projects) for a career in UX. In fact, I landed my first UX consulting project after taking this course. I really appreciated the template examples he provided throughout the course for us to use and adapt for our own needs. The only thing I would have liked to learn more about was the step before you deliver the UX work (e.g. how to sell UX to prospective clients). Brendan was very helpful and generous in answering any questions I had. I enjoyed his sense of humour! Thanks Brendan!

By Peter McCuen on 12/5/2015

This is a real zero-to-hero course--it covers everything you would need to know to and establishes a great foundation for anyone who is interested in becoming a UX professional or advancing in the field. The Instructor is engaging and the production quality is excellent, the material is first rate, as are the resources. I would highly recommend Brendan's course to anyone who is interested into breaking into the field.

By Victor Sg

Very complete and coherent. It covers and details all aspects very clearly. You can start from scratch and get good knowledge of the discipline, including advice on career plan and how to prepare a decent portfolio, or even where to look for positions. Ideal if you want to change careers (like me) or if you want to advance in the one you have.

By Brandon Brown

Good overview of content and explanations of his terms. Content would be good for beginners and review doesn't hurt veterans.

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