UI/UX Design Fundamentals & Prototyping with Generative AI

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Power your design career forward with user interface/user experience (UI/UX) and GenAI skills that can shape how the world experiences digital products. This hands-on specialization gives designers and other marketing professionals the UI, UX, and GenAI skills to move into UI and app design and create intuitive, user-centered experiences that businesses need. No prior AI experience required. During this specialization, you’ll master the fundamentals of interaction design, usability, and visual design using tools like Figma, while sharpening essential techniques like heuristic evaluation, user journey mapping, A/B testing, micro interactions, and responsive UI development. With that under your belt, you’ll then supercharge your creativity by exploring how generative AI is revolutionizing workflows—from faster ideation and automated prototyping to personalized experiences and smarter usability testing. Through hands-on labs and real-world projects, you’ll generate low and high fidelity wireframes, design variations, interactive prototypes, and transform AI-driven insights into impactful user experiences. By the end, you’ll have a solid grasp of UX/UI fundamentals and know how to leverage the power of GenAI to future-proof your career and stay ahead in the digital era. Enroll today to add UI/UX design and GenAI skills to your resume that will take your design career to the next level.

Syllabus

Course 1: UX/UI Design Fundamentals: Usability and Visual Principles
Course 2: UI/UX Wireframing and Prototypingwith Figma
Course 3: Generative AI: The Future of UX UI Design

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15 hours 17 minutes
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The user interface (UI) design market is growing fast, driven by the increasing demand for digital products that prioritize user experience (UX) (Global Growth Insights). This course offers an in-depth exploration of UX/UI fundamentals, design thinking, user-centered methodologies, interaction principles, and the strategic use of UX animations, enabling learners to craft seamless, visually engaging, and highly functional digital experiences. During the course, you’ll look at key aspects of UX/UI design, how to conduct heuristic evaluations to identify and fix usability issues and use user journey mapping to understand and optimize user flows. You’ll explore A/B testing techniques that help you make data-driven design decisions. Plus, you’ll dive into microinteraction design to create engaging user interactions and learn to build responsive user interfaces that ensures consistency across different devices. Using industry-leading tools like Miro and Figma, you’ll apply your skills through hands-on labs, real-world design challenges, and usability testing frameworks. Then, you’ll complete a project designing a fully interactive UX/UI prototype for a health and fitness app, conduct usability testing, gather feedback, and refine your design to create a polished product, perfect for your portfolio!  If you’re keen to kickstart your UX/UI career with the core UI/UX skills employers are looking for, enroll today!
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18 hours 37 minutes
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Companies of all sizes use Figma, making it a top requirement for a UX/UI career. Creating wireframes and interactive prototypes reduces development time by 20% by aligning teams and identifying issues early. This course is your gateway to mastering the fundamentals of wireframing, prototyping, and usability testing with Figma, giving you job-ready skills and hands-on experience employers look for in a UX/UI designer. During this course, you’ll gain hands-on experience using Figma, learning the essentials of building structured wireframes, user flows, and interactive prototypes, including gesture-based-UI. You’ll also explore Gestalt principles to build strong visual hierarchy, structure content through effective information architecture, and take a mobile-first design approach. Through real-world challenges and usability testing, you’ll refine the designs you work on based on feedback and gain the confidence to solve UX problems with clarity and purpose. At the end of the course, in the final project, you’ll create a polished, high-fidelity prototype and your own reusable design system. Great to talk about in interviews! If you’re looking to get hands-on using Figma for wireframing and prototyping, enroll today!
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8 hours 8 minutes
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Leverage the power of generative AI (GenAI) to transform your UI UX design capabilities! This course builds the hands-on skills designers and creative professionals need to integrate AI into every stage of the user experience workflow—from ideation and research to prototyping and conversational design. You’ll explore leading tools such as UXPilot, Miro, Visily, Uizard and Figma and learn how you can use AI to streamline tasks such as generating personas and journey maps, creating UX microcopy, and simulating chatbot interactions—while ensuring design human-centered, inclusive, and accessible. In hands-on labs, you’ll build practical skills in AI-assisted wireframing, usability testing, and conversational UX design. Plus, you’ll complete a final project, where you’ll design an AI-powered experience, apply prompt engineering, and refine your solution through feedback loops. Within just 4 weeks, you’ll be ready to embrace AI as a collaborative design partner, and to work faster, smarter, and more innovatively. If you’re looking to power your UI/UX career forward and lead the next wave of AI-enhanced digital experiences, enroll today!