Course overview
Attention UK learners: today, it’s all about the user. Get the skills to translate user wants and needs into intuitive digital experiences that power revenue, loyalty, and product success. Our UK user experience design course gives you the confidence to tackle complex UX design challenges.
Job outcomes
- UX Designer
- UX Engineer
- UX Strategist
- UX Researcher
- UI Designer
- Product Designer
- Usability Analyst
What you'll learn
- Discover how to identify, ideate, articulate, and develop design solutions for UX challenges.
- Describe how UX designers work with product managers, developers, and visual designers.
- Explore the current UX design landscape through relevant, real-world examples.
- Develop and document personas, journey maps, user flows, and annotated wireframes.
- Utilise industry-standard tools to propose and refine design decisions.
- Apply what you’ve learned to create a portfolio project: a new or redesigned digital product experience.
Study method
- Online
- Blended
- In-class
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Duration study load
- Part-time: 10 weeks
- 20 hours per week
Entry requirements
This is a beginner-friendly UK UX design program with no prerequisites, although many students are familiar with graphic and digital design concepts. Whether you’re new to the UX design field or you’re looking to formalise your practice, our curriculum helps you gain fluency in end-to-end UX processes, tools, and documentation and put them to work for you, your company, and your career.
Our Admissions team can discuss your background and learning goals to advise if this UK UX Design Short Course is a good fit for you.
Course features
Here are just some of the benefits you can expect as a GA UK student:
- 40 hours of expert UX design instruction designed to build a strong foundation in the user experience design practice.
- A short onboarding task to prepare for this UX design course.
- Robust coursework, including expert-vetted lesson decks, project toolkits, and more. Refresh and refine your knowledge throughout your professional journey as needed.
- A real-world project where you’ll apply the end-to-end UX process to a product of your choice, creating documentation and a case study for your portfolio.
- Individual feedback and guidance from instructors and teaching assistants during office hours. Stay motivated and make the most of your experience with the help of GA’s dedicated team.
- Exclusive access to alumni discounts, networking events, and career workshops.
- A GA course certificate to showcase your new skill set on LinkedIn.
- Connections with a professional network of instructors and peers that lasts well beyond the course. The global GA community can help you navigate and succeed in the field — whether in London, across the UK, or across the globe.
Assessment
For your final project, you’ll work on a real-world UX design problem, applying all the concepts and tools learned in the UK UX design course to a product of your choice. You’ll get hands-on practice with each step in the UX process and create professional standard documentation spanning personas, information architecture, user flows, wireframes, and more. You’ll also deliver a final presentation, which can serve as a case study for stakeholders, future employers, and your portfolio.
We encourage you to tackle a user experience design challenge that’s related to your work or a passion project you’ve been meaning to carve out time for.
Throughout the UK UX course, you’ll also complete a number of smaller projects designed to reinforce what you’ve learned in each unit.
Delivery
- Online instructor-led sessions and self-paced lessons.
- Instructor feedback and support are provided in real-time.
- Personalised career coach support from day one until you find a job.
- Individual and team-based projects to build your job-ready portfolio.
- Powered by Zoom and Slack which mirrors most common workspaces.
About General Assembly
Since 2011, we’ve helped 100K+ alumni worldwide launch tech careers through our award-winning tech bootcamps. Students at General Assembly get live instruction, career coaching and networking opportunities to start or advance their career in a tech role. As part of the Adecco Group, we create a better world of work for all.
When you complete a GA course you become part of the 72K+ alumni on Linkedin who have completed a General Assembly course to start a career they love! Some of the companies that GA grads work at are: Google, Lloyds Banking Group, Bloomberg, BBC, Meta, American Express, Accenture, Microsoft, Amazon and more.