Sketching for UX Designers - Boost UX work with pen & paper! (Udemy.com)
Learn how to boost your UX design workflow with sketching user interfaces, animations and storyboarding.
Created by: Krisztina Szerovay
Last updated January 2023
What you will learn
- By the end of the course, you will be able to sketch user interfaces, user flows, ui animations and storyboards.
- You will understand that you don’t need any artistic skills, sketching is about generating and communicating ideas.
- This course is also a great starting point for other areas of visual thinking, like graphic facilitation or sketchnoting.
How it compares
Against the other 144 rated Udemy courses in UX Design on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.7 out of 5higher than 89% of them
- Reviews4,217#19 of 145 by number of reviews
- Length4.7 hourslonger than 61% of them
- Last updatedJanuary 2023more recently than 61% of them
Quality Score
Overall Score : 94 / 100
Course Description
You will learn how you can boost your UX, UI or product design workflow with sketching.
Last update: 25th January 2023 - 4 new files added (UI sketching and Storyboarding Pro Tips posters)
Update: 16th November 2019 - new lecture added: 12 Benefits of Sketching for UX - a summary
Update: 17th October 2017 - new course material added: the Sketching for UX Designers WORKBOOK (24-page long, filled with useful sketching exercises)
Update: 5th June 2017 - new section added: a 40-minute long sketching practice activity through the different Gestalt principles.
The three main parts are
Warming up and drawing basic shapes
Sketching User Interfaces, User Flows and UI Animations
Creating Storyboards.
Not only will I invite you to draw along with me throughout the course, I will also give you exciting exercises to quickly develop your skills.
You will be able to use your sketching skills in many more UX design or service design methods, like in creating Empathy Maps, User Journey Maps and Personas.
In addition, the course provides a great starting point for other areas of visual thinking, like graphic facilitation or sketchnoting, since in the section about Storyboarding I show you how to draw people, locations, objects, how to express process, use containers, color and effects, and so on.
Sketching skills are great for any product design process, but next to applying these skills in your professional workflow, you can improve your personal development as well for example by sketchnoting UX talks or podcasts.
Throughout the course I use pen and paper, so it won't provide you a complete workflow for using digitzier tablets for sketching, but I believe that almost everything I teach you can be applied for sketching on a tablet, so feel free to draw along with me or practice sketching with a digital tool.
Sketching is great because
this technique takes into account how our visual perception works - when we look at images, we understand them much faster than we read words;
it can reveal things we might have not seen before, connections we have not noticed;
it enables a mutual understanding;
it supports the fail fast approach;
it is a quick and cheap way to generate many ideas.
Important: This course is not about teaching how to use Sketch App by Bohemian Coding, but about sketching user interfaces with pen and paper!
Course update log:
Updated on the 17th October 2017: new course material (workbook)
Updated on the 5th June 2017: new section
Released on the 15th April 2017
Instructor Details
- 4.7 Rating
4,217 Reviews
Krisztina Szerovay
I'm Krisztina Szerovay, lead product designer with 10+ years of professional experience. I come from a family of teachers and engineers, so the value of knowledge-sharing and designing complex systems have always been apparent to me.
Teaching is not a profession for me, it is a passion, and I'm really grateful to have the opportunity to reach and help students from all over the world. If you have any questions, suggestions or feedback, please contact me! I believe that teaching itself is an ongoing learning process.
Next to design, I also did legal writing and research. I consider myself a generalist, I always utilize a multidisciplinary approach during my work, connecting the dots to achieve the best result possible.
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Reviews
By Elijah Micheal mbang on 6/7/2024
The instructor of this course should be given an award because she took here time to explain every concept bit by bit, making it an very interesting journey to follow up I highly recommend this course to anyone who want to know more on Sketching & Storyboarding but this instructor leaves and breathes it Thank you for this information.
By Design User on 8/30/2022
I learned a few valuable things, but this course took me a very long time to complete due to the way the content was presented. I wanted to sketch my notes similarly to how the content was sketched on the screen, but sometimes the sketches were not enough for me to remember the information, so I needed to write notes in addition to the sketches. It just was a difficult format for me to follow personally.
By Gregory Schonland on 10/26/2021
I enjoyed the course, even though it took me a while to get through it. I really like how it covers a lot of UI/UX fundamentals, even though you are using basic drawing tools (which makes it somehow more engaging). I struggled now and again with the accent difference, but there's always the transcript to help out. I would recommend this course.
By Yolandi Thompson on 1/17/2021
I loved this course! The mentor has inspired me with a new way to approach, understand and explain information. As a beginner in UX design, for me, this is an excellent starting point. Sketching allows the brain to process and summarize information faster. This course was also a good refresher on design principles - I am thankful for all the resources included. Sketching is an exciting technique to use for learning UX design. Visual thinking methods help to generate and apply creative ideas. It is also an awesome way for effective communication.
By Carlos Salgado on 3/28/2019
Una excelente elección, Krisztina se esmera por hacer un curso agradable, con buenas prácticas y ejercicios, sitios y libros de consulta y sobre todo un sólido dominio de los dos temas del curso: Sketching y UI. Revisé su página y su trabajo, me suscribí a su newsletter y estoy seguro que recibiré conocimiento interesante cada semana.
By Amrita Tulshan on 2/8/2019
Amazing instructor. The instructor is very much clear in her teaching. For Beginners it's amazing. Great Job instructor. Thank you soo much for solving each and every problem. I am very much satisfied with this course. Her way of teaching is very creative and helpful. I will suggest to all students who want to go for this course. Anyone can do that. Even if you are an expert it will help you a lot and for a beginner, it is yes.
By Jhonatan de Souza Januário Rodrigues on 1/18/2019
The course was wonderful, the instructor is very captivating, cute, uses a very friendly and engaging language, knows how to give useful and applicable examples. In short I loved doing this course and feel like doing sketches forever. O curso foi maravilhoso, a instrutora é muito cativante, uma fofa, utiliza uma linguagem bem amigável e empolgante, sabe dar exemplos úteis e aplicáveis. Resumindo eu amei fazer este curso e dá vontade de fazer sketchs para sempre.
By Arpana Khalkho on 9/11/2018
I am very happy happy after completing this course. My sketching has greatly improved. Other sketching courses or material that I had looked at was all about art. But this is exactly what I needed - improving my sketching so that I can apply it directly to my UX work. It has greatly helped improving my professional work. I think the instructor has done an excellent job. The structure of the course and her explanations were spot-on. The workbook pdf is a great addition for practice.
By Pablo Rincón García on 1/23/2018
I love how this course takes you through a journey in sketching. The concepts, exercises and methodology presented are very specific and applicable to your daily routine. I also value the fact that Krisztina not only gives you all that important knowledge, but also encourages you to practice and improve your skills, making the course even more meaningful! She's also a very dedicated instructor, always willing to share feedback. Thank you for your time making this awesome course! :)
By Gabriela Fabryova on 11/28/2017
I've really appreciated the Krisztina's course and I've learned a lot ! Pluses : detailed, concrete, lot of exercices, interesting content, easy to follow, great references in bonus documents To improve : a bit more energy and enthusiasm in the way the course is presented would increase the dynamics and student's motivation ;) Thank you very much !
By Michael Cole
I really enjoyed this cource. I didn't finish it, but I enjoyed the experience.
By Andrey Glinskiy
great course. allows you to touch the profession of ux a designer







