Benefits of User Experience (UX) Courses

I just completed a week of delivering a UX training course to an internal design team at a large company. The public UX classes I deliver draw a cross-section of designers, developers, business analysts, and project managers, while many of the private UX classes I deliver are focused on one functional area within a company. When teaching user experience design, regardless of the group, I work as both a teacher and a facilitator. As a teacher, I help participants understand design essentials, such as working with grids, type, and understanding space. Providing a foundation of design skills helps participants make informed decisions about their work. I also help ux class participants understand the design process, and make informed decisions that help create a better user experience. This process-driven approach to UX design is one of the most important pieces that participants take from the course. Learning how to approach design challenges allows you to make better decisions that can delight the end-user of your website, app, or product.

As a facilitator of the UX projects undertaken in the course, I work to make certain UX designs are focused on the needs of their intended users. This involves helping to improve and refine ideas, provide feedback, examining the use-case scenarios, and encouraging new perspectives as designs are created.

The benefits of participating in a UX class that includes a workshop environment go far beyond learning UX design principles and processes. Course participants gain from the opportunity to practice what they’ve learned, experience the complete UX process in a supportive environment where they can take risks, and receive feedback from peers and the instructor.

If you’ve found yourself grappling with user experience decisions, regardless of your role in your organization, you should consider enrolling in the regularly scheduled, public ux classes at American Graphics Institute. They provide valuable lessons to help you delight your users, bring your products to market faster, sustain better communication between interdisciplinary teams, and more accurately meet the needs of your users.