Mobile User Experience (UX) Design

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What You’ll Learn

  • How to design mobile interfaces based on mobile usability best practices
  • How to use personas and task modelling to plan a mobile user experience
  • An understanding of how your UI choices will differ between operating platforms (e.g. iOS vs Android)
  • How to evaluate a mobile design and avoid bad mobile user experiences
  • How to implement a mobile UX design strategy

Mobile usage overtook that of desktop way back in 2014 according to Comscore; since then, the gap between devices has only widened, with the rise in mobile usage doubling the loss seen on desktop. This increase in mobile traffic has made mobile user experience one of the most important factors in the success of a product or website, and it means that the skills involved are absolutely essential for designers, marketers, and developers if they want to keep up with the times. This course will teach you how to do just that—design great mobile user interfaces, with an emphasis on mobile usability best practices.

When you want to start designing a great user experience on a mobile device, using common sense design approaches or simply learning by doing won’t be enough. With Google reporting that 61% of users were unlikely to return to a mobile site they had trouble accessing and, even worse, 40% choosing to visit a competitor’s site instead, such uneducated approaches could prove disastrous for your product or website. A user’s comprehension is 50% less on a mobile device, which means that content, navigation, and visual design elements must be twice as intuitive as they are on a desktop. With hard facts like that, you must constantly keep in mind the point that little screens mean very little room for error. Designing for mobile means taking the rough of the risk with the smooth of the sheer profit potential, and your need to learn the skills involved in creating an easy-to-use mobile user interface and, consequently, a great mobile user experience is nothing less than vital.

This course is built on evidence-based approaches as well as solid evidence distilled from decades of research and practice. Here, CEO of ExperienceDynamics.com, Frank Spillers, who is a distinguished speaker, author, and internationally respected Senior Usability practitioner, will teach you what you need to know to stay one step ahead as you venture into this exciting, cutting-edge and lucrative field.

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The course covers all the major aspects of mobile user experience design. It has definitely equipped me with a great knowledge to build grea...

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Matthew Shenton
User Interface and User Experience designer

Great content, I loved how much the instructor sets practical design tasks for you to do. I also loved the feedback on open question answers...

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Course Overview:

  • Each week, one lesson becomes available.
  • Study flexibly. Take as much time as you want.
  • 26h, 14m over 6 weeks (est.).

Lesson 0: Welcome and Introduction

To be scheduled. Estimated time to complete: 1 hour, 43 mins.

  • In-depth video lesson with experts, animations and templates. 0.1 An Introduction to Courses from IxDF (33 mins)
  • Multimedia lesson: E.g. templates, animations, illustrations, graphs, and text. 0.2 Get Help, Career Advice, and Job Opportunities (6 mins)
  • In-depth video lesson with experts, animations and templates. 0.3 How to Get Your Course Certificate (19 mins)
  • Community-based learning and networking. 0.4 Grow Your Global Network and Build Your Brand (12 mins)

Lesson 1: An Introduction to Mobile User Experience Design

To be scheduled. Estimated time to complete: 3 hours, 45 mins.

  • Multimedia lesson: E.g. templates, animations, illustrations, graphs, and text. 1.1 An Introduction to Mobile User Experience (4 mins)
  • In-depth video lesson with experts, animations and templates. 1.2 UX Design For Mobile: Introduction (11 mins)
  • Multimedia lesson: E.g. templates, animations, illustrations, graphs, and text. 1.3 One Size Fits All? Definitely Not in Task-Oriented Design for Mobile & Ubiquitous UX (33 mins)
  • In-depth video lesson with experts, animations and templates. 1.4 Responsive vs. Adaptive Design (41 mins)

Lesson 2: The Elements of Mobile UX

To be scheduled. Estimated time to complete: 4 hours, 36 mins.

  • Multimedia lesson: E.g. templates, animations, illustrations, graphs, and text. 2.1 The Elements of Mobile User Experience (4 mins)
  • In-depth video lesson with experts, animations and templates. 2.2 A User-Centred Approach to Mobile Design and a 5 Stage Process for You to Use (19 mins)
  • In-depth video lesson with experts, animations and templates. 2.3 What Comes First in Mobile Design: Tasks, Content, or Mobile Optimization? (1 hour, 1 min)
  • In-depth video lesson with experts, animations and templates. 2.4 How to Craft Effective Mobile Experiences: The Role of Content Strategy and UX Writing (35 mins)

Lesson 3: Fit the task

To be scheduled. Estimated time to complete: 7 hours, 27 mins.

  • Multimedia lesson: E.g. templates, animations, illustrations, graphs, and text. 3.1 Design That Fits the Task (4 mins)
  • In-depth video lesson with experts, animations and templates. 3.2 Goals of Mobile UX (51 mins)
  • Multimedia lesson: E.g. templates, animations, illustrations, graphs, and text. 3.3 Simple Guidelines When You Design for Mobile (18 mins)
  • Multimedia lesson: E.g. templates, animations, illustrations, graphs, and text. 3.4 The One Thumb, One Eyeball Test for Good Mobile Design (18 mins)

Lesson 4: Fitting the UI style guide

To be scheduled. Estimated time to complete: 7 hours, 0 mins.

  • Multimedia lesson: E.g. templates, animations, illustrations, graphs, and text. 4.1 The UI Style Guide for Mobile (3 mins)
  • In-depth video lesson with experts, animations and templates. 4.2 Smartphone vs. Tablet (41 mins)
  • In-depth video lesson with experts, animations and templates. 4.3 How to Optimize Your Designs for Smartphones vs Tablets (19 mins)
  • Multimedia lesson: E.g. templates, animations, illustrations, graphs, and text. 4.4 Mobile Comprehension – Do Smartphones Make Us Stupid? (16 mins)

Lesson 5: UI mobile components and patterns

To be scheduled. Estimated time to complete: 3 hours, 25 mins.

  • Multimedia lesson: E.g. templates, animations, illustrations, graphs, and text. 5.1 UI for Mobile – Components and Patterns (3 mins)
  • Multimedia lesson: E.g. templates, animations, illustrations, graphs, and text. 5.2 The Anatomy of a Smartphone – Things for Designers to Consider for Mobile Development (17 mins)
  • Multimedia lesson: E.g. templates, animations, illustrations, graphs, and text. 5.3 The Rumble in the Board Room – Mobile Splash Screens What Clients Want and What They Should Get (15 mins)
  • Multimedia lesson: E.g. templates, animations, illustrations, graphs, and text. 5.4 User Input and the Mobile User Experience – We’re All Thumbs Now or Maybe Not (16 mins)

Lesson 6: IxDF Course Certificate and Course Wrap-up

To be scheduled. Estimated time to complete: 12 mins.

  • In-depth video lesson with experts, animations and templates. 6.1 How to Add Your IxDF Certificate to LinkedIn (6 mins)
  • Multimedia lesson: E.g. templates, animations, illustrations, graphs, and text. 6.2 Help Us Help You: Course Evaluation (4 mins)
  • Multimedia lesson: E.g. templates, animations, illustrations, graphs, and text. 6.3 Six Steps to Your Career Success (3 mins)
  • Multimedia lesson: E.g. templates, animations, illustrations, graphs, and text. 6.4 Get Your IxDF Course Certificate (2 mins)

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Hemant Panchabhai
Hemant Panchabhai
Senior Product Designer

The course covers all the major aspects of mobile user experience design. It has definitely equipped me with a great knowledge to build great mobile experiences. I would say this course is crucial if your users are mobile users.

Matthew Shenton
Matthew Shenton
User Interface and User Experience designer

Great content, I loved how much the instructor sets practical design tasks for you to do. I also loved the feedback on open question answers.

Jennifer Steiner-Kotch
Jennifer Steiner-Kotch
Front End Web Developer

The overall organization of this course was great. I really liked the overview and wrap-up included in each module that introduced and summarized the information that was presented. The overall material was in-depth and very relevant to current trends and best practices.