All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.
(Michael John Bobak)
Learn something new
Learning’s good for you. It’s as simple as that. If you stop learning you’re in trouble. Lots of trouble.
Start a new skill. Read a new book. Listen to podcasts. Ask questions on Quora. Talk to someone who knows more than you. Read Medium articles. Note down what you’ve learnt. Write articles on what you’ve learnt. Pass on the knowledge.
Without learning you lose inspiration. Without inspiration you’ll struggle to be creative. Without creativity there’s no progress…
…you get the point.
From my research, I’ve collated a list of online courses that are worth a look. I’ve deliberately made the subject matter broader than the normal UX topics. It’s important to have a broad knowledge for design. Jared Spool believes the more a a designer learns about non-design things, the better. I agree.
Bookmark this page, use it when you feel like digging into something new. Keep the old grey matter ticking along…
…and become a better design in the process.
I’ll show you online courses covering:
UX Design · UX Strategy · Interaction Design · Design Thinking · User-Centred Design Canvas · Prototyping · Information Architecture · Usability Testing · User Research · Visual Design · Code · Development Skills · Data · Content Optimisation and Strategy · Writing · Drawing · Marketing · Innovation · Freelance work · Interviews · Public Speaking & Storytelling · UX deliverables · Leadership · LinkedIn.
Personal mentor ?
If you see an 🦉 it means you get a personal mentor on the course.
Change is the end result of all true learning.
(Leo Buscaglia)
Learn UX Design
Bloc 🦉
Intensive UX training with a mentor (Study: 1. 5 years at 15 hours per week)
Career Foundry 🦉
Become a certified UX Designer (Study: 10 months at 15 hours per week)
Coursera 🦉
Introduction to UX Design (Study: 5 weeks at 2 hour per week)
Design Lab 🦉
Join their UX Academy and learn with a mentor (Study: 26 weeks at 20 hours per week)
General Assembly 🦉
UX Design Circuit with a mentor (Study: 6 weeks at 10 hours per week)
Go Highbrow
Learn the fundamentals of UX (Study: 10 days at 5 mins per day)
Gymnasium
UX fundamentals (Study: timeline not shown)
Hack Design
Learn UX and UI Design with a lesson emailed to you each week (Study: 50 weeks at 1-2 hours per week)
Interaction Design Foundation
A range of great online courses for UX design. (Study: Between 5–10 weeks at 3–7 hour per week).
Lynda
Become a UX Designer (Study: 10 hours in your own time)
Lynda
Advance your UX Design skills (Study: 10 hours in your own time)
Open to Study
User Experience for the web (Study: 4 weeks at 2–4 hours per week)
Skillshare
Intro to UX. Fundamentals of usability (Study 1.5 hours)
Springboard 🦉
Learn UX Design (Study: roughly 3 months at 12 hours per week)
The Leftbank
Information Architecture and UX (Study: 10 weeks access with a total of 80 hours study)
Treehouse
UX basics (Study: 2 hours)
Udacity
Product Design video course by Google (Study: the average time taken is 2 months)
Udacity
Intro to the design of everyday things with Dion Norman (Study: the average time taken is 2 weeks while)
Udemy
UX Design fundamentals (Study: 12 hours at your own pace)
Udemy
UX & Web Design Master Course: Strategy, Design, Development (Study 24 hours at your own pace)
uxtraining.com
Foundation in UX (Study: 12 hours at your own pace)
Design is a journey of discovery.
(Derek Parker)
Learn UX Strategy
UX Strategy is about defining what kind of user experience you want, aligned with the business goals.
Design Lab
UX Research & Strategy with a mentor over 4 weeks (Study: 4 weeks at 10 hours per week)
OReilly
A video course on a framework for UX Strategy (Study: 1 hour)
Udemy
UX mission control and strategy (Study: 2 hours)
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes . Design is knowing which ones to keep.
(Scott Adams)
Learn Interaction Design
Coursera
Design great experiences with this Interaction design specialisation (Study: 4 weeks at 4 hours per week)
Design Lab
Interaction design over 4 weeks with a mentor (Study: 4 weeks at 10 hours per week)
Interaction Design Foundation
The Psychology of interaction design. (Study: 12 weeks at 4–7 hours per week)
I will study and and get ready, and perhaps my change will come.
(Abraham Lincoln)
Learn Design Thinking
Design thinking comes from processes and methods aimed at a single goal. Stuff is done in rapid iteration until you’ve created something great.
Coursera
Design thinking for innovation (Study: 5 weeks at 2 hours per week)
Lynda
Learn design thinking. Lead Change in your organisation (Study: 2 hours)
Lynda
Understanding the process (Study: 1 hour)
Lynda
Implementing the process (Study: 1 hour)
The Interaction Design Foundation
The beginners guide to design thinking (Study: 7 weeks at 4–7 hours per week).
Udemy
Cooper crash course, design thinking in 3 steps (Study: 2 hours)
Anyone who stops learning is old. Whether twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.
(Henry Ford)
Learn the User-Centred Design Canvas
The User-Centered Design Canvas is a great way to arrange user research and business value in one place.
Coursera
Learn the user centred design canvas For entrepreneurs and innovators (Study: 14 hours at you own pace)
UX Magazine
Introduction to the User Centred Design Canvas (article)
User Centred Design Canvas
A resource to help you complete your canvas
When you talk you are repeating what you already know. But if you listen you may learn something new.
(Dalai Lama)
Learn Prototyping
Coursera
Protoyping and design (Study: 4 weeks at 4–7 hours per week)
IDEO 🦉
From ideas to action (Study: 5 weeks at 5–7 hours per week)
Udemy
Rapid prototyping (Study: 6 hours)
Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think.
(Albert Einstein)
Learn Information Architecture
ISDI
UX & Information Architecture Course (Study: 10 hours)
Lynda
Information architecture (Study: 2 hours)
Udemy
Information architecture fundamentals (Study: 2.5 hours)
Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
(Bill Gates)
Learn about User research
Coursera
User Experience, research & prototyping (Study: 4 weeks at 3 hours per week)
Design Lab 🦉
UX Research & Strategy (Study: 4 weeks at 10 hours per week)
Interaction Design Foundation
Conducting Usability Testing (Study: 4 weeks at 5–7 hours per week)
Lynda
What is a user persona (Study: 25 mins)
Lynda
Creating user personas (Study: 25 mins)
Udemy
Usability testing bootcamp (Study: 8.5 hours)
It’s what we know that keeps us from learning.
(Claude Bernard)
Learn Visual Design
Career Foundry 🦉
Study UI design with a mentor (Study: 6 months at 20 hours per week)
Design Lab 🦉
Learn Visual Design over 4 weeks with a mentor (Study: 4 weeks at 10 hours per week)
Hack Design
Learn UX and UI Design with a lesson emailed to you each week (Study: 50 weeks at 1–2 hours per week)
Gymnasium
Information design and visualisation fundamentals (Study: time not noted)
Everyone should learn how to program a computer, because it teaches you how to think.
(Steve Jobs)
Learn to Code
Career Foundry 🦉
Study web development design with a mentor (Study: 6 months at 20 hours per week)
Codecademy
Learn to code for free (range of courses)
Code Factory Academy
Free coding kick starter (range of courses)
Code School
Learn to code (range of courses)
Dash
Learn to make great websites. (Study: time not specified)
Free Code Camp
Learn to code and help nonprofits (range of courses)
Gymnasium
Coding for designers (Study: time not specified)
Highbrow
HTML & CSS basics (Study: 10 days at 5 mins per day)
One Month 🦉
Programming for non-programmers (Study: 4 weeks)
Platzi
Live streaming classes on design, marketing and code (range of courses).
Thinkful 🦉
Learn development (range of courses)
Treehouse
Learn web design, coding and much more (range of courses).
Udacity
Learn to code with this nano degree (Study: 5 months at 10 hours per week)
Udacity
Learn front end development (Study: average time taken is 6 months)
Whether you want to uncover the secrets of the universe, or you want to pursue a career in the 21st Century, basic computer programming is an essential skill to learn.
(Stephen Hawking)
Learn Development Skills
BaseRails
Learn to use an API to scrape and use data (Study: time not specified)
Codecademy
Learn Git (Study: time not specified)
Study Tonight
Github tutorial (Study: time not specified)
Udemy
Api’s crash course (Study: 2 hours)
Without data you’re just another person with an opinion
(W. Edwards Deming, Data Scientist)
Learn to work with Data
DataCamp
Online R tutorials and data science courses (range of courses)
DataQuest
Learn data science in your browser (range of courses)
DataMonkey
Develop your analytical skills in a simple, yet fun way (range of courses)
General Assembly 🦉
Learn about data (Study: 10 weeks at 6 hours per week)
Google Analytics Academy
Google analytics for beginners (Study: 4–6 hours)
Google Analytics Academy
Advanced Google analytics (Study: 2–4 hours)
Highbrow
Introduction to data science (Study: 10 days at 5 minutes per day)
Jellyfish Training
Web analytics (Study: 6 weeks course, hours not specified)
Lynda
Google Analytics essentials training (Study: 3 hours)
Lynda
Advanced Google Analytics (Study: 4 hours)
Springboard 🦉
Foundations of Data Science (Study: 4 weeks at 25 hours per week)
Udacity
Discover insights from data with this data analyst nano degree (Study: 260 hours is the average time taken)
Agile is the ability to adapt and respond to change. Agile organisations view change as an opportunity, not a threat.
(Jim Highsmith)
Learn about Agile
Coursera
Getting started: Agile meets design thinking (Study: 5 weeks at 2–5 hours per week)
Coursera
Agile methods (Study: 5 weeks at 2–5 hours per week)
Lynda
Enterprise Agile (Study: 1.5 hours)
Udemy
The agile bootcamp (Study: 3 hours)
Udemy
Mastering agile scrum project management (Study: 14.5 hours)
Content builds relationships. Relationships are built on trust.
(Andrew Davis, Author)
Learn about Content Optimisation
Coursera
Learn SEO tool and strategies (Study: 4 weeks at 1–3 hours per week)
Jellyfish Training
SEO Foundations (Study: 4 weeks, hours not specified)
Jellyfish Training
SEO Advanced (Study: 6 weeks, hours not specified)
The Leftbank
SEO fundamentals (Study: 10 weeks at 8–10 hours per week)
Lynda
Introduction to content strategy (Study: 1.5 hours)
Be courageous and try to write in a way that scares you a little.
(Holley Gerth)
Learn to Write
College of Media & Publishing 🦉
Web writing course (Study: 3 months with a total of 60–80 hours)
Copywriting Apprentice 🦉
Learn copywriting with a mentor (Study: 3 months with a total of 60–80 hours)
Open 2 Study
Writing for the web (Study: 4 weeks at 2–4 hours per week)
Jellyfish Training
5 week online copywriting course (Study: 5 weeks, hours not specified)
Skillshare
The designers guide to writing and research (Study: 1 hour)
The Gymnasium
Writing for web and mobile (Study time not specified)
Drawing is putting a line around an idea.
(Henri Matisse)
Learn to Draw / Storyboard
Use pictures to clarify complexity, banish confusion and defeat fear.
The Napkin Academy
Use pictures to clarify complexity, banish confusion and defeat fear with beginner, advanced and master courses. (Study: time not specified)
Skillshare
Learn to Storyboard, The First Steps of Visual Storytelling (Study: 2 hours)
Udemy
Sketching for UX Designers (Study: 4 hours)
I believe that the more a designer learns about non-design things, the better.
(Jared Spool)
Learn about Marketing
Hyper Island
Digital marketing (Study: 6 weeks at 5–7 hours per week)
Lynda
Marketing foundations (Study: 1 hour)
The Leftbank
Introduction to digital marketing (Study: 10 weeks at 8–10 hours per week)
Udacity
Become a digital marketer with this nano degree (Study: 3 months at 10 hours per week)
True innovation is coming up with a product that the product didn’t even know they needed.
(J. Paul Getty)
Learn about Innovation
Coursera
Introduction to social innovation (Study: 6 weeks at 2-3 hours per week)
Coursera
Design thinking for innovation (Study: 5 weeks at 1–2 hours per week)
Coursera
Innovating in a digital world (Study: 4 weeks at 2-3 hours per week)
Hyper Island
Driving Transformation (Study: 6 weeks at 8–15 hours per week)
IDEO
Insight for innovation course (Study: 6 weeks at 4 hours per week)
Open 2 Study
Innovation for powerful outcomes (Study: 4 weeks at 2–4 hours per week)
Acting is a freelance career, you never stop having to prove yourself and fight for work.
(Miranda Otto)
Learn about Freelance Work
Interaction Design Foundation
How to become a freelance designer (Study: 8 weeks at 4–7 hours per week)
Lynda
Freelance UX, managing clients (Study: 1 hour)
Lynda
Freelance UX, managing projects (Study: 1 hour)
The freelance contract
Great resource for people needing a contract for their freelance work
Storytelling is the oldest form of education
(Terry Tempest Williams)
Learn about Public Speaking & Storytelling
Highbrow
Present like a pro (Study: 10 days at 5 minutes per day)
IDEO
Storying telling for influence (Study: 5 weeks at 2–4 hours per week)
Udemy
Become great at public speaking (Study: 1.5 hours)
Udemy
Presentation bootcamp (Study: 5 hours)
All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.
(Michael John Bobak)
Learn about UX Deliverables
Coursera
Design and make infographics (Study: 14 hours at you won pace)
UX for the masses
Lots of example of UX deliverables.
Leadership is doing what is right when no one is watching.
(George Van Valkenburg)
Learn about Leadership
Coursera
Innovation management (Study: 9 weeks at 2–3 hours per week)
Hyper Island
Leading teams in the digital age (Study: 6 weeks at 5–7 hours per week)
IDEO
Leading about creativity (Study: 4weeks at 3 hours per week)
The best portfolio’s show pride not just proof, tell a story and illustrate process not just passion.
Learn about UX interviews & Resume Writing
Coursera
Detailed interviewing and resume writing (Study: 19 weeks at 2–4 hours per week)
Coursera
Advanced interviewing techniques (Study: 5 weeks at 2–3 hours per week)
Lynda
Writing a resume (Study: 3 hours)
If you want to go fast go alone. If you want to go far, go with others.
(African Proverb)
Learn about LinkedIn
Coursmos
Learn LinkedIn essential with this video course (Study: 1 hour)
Coursmos
LinkedIn bootcamp, complete guide to a powerful profile (Study: 1.5 hours)
Udemy
Comprehensive guide to LinkedIn (Study 1.5 hours)
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