For those considering a career in UX design, our UX Design Fundamentals course is a perfect introduction to the field and covers all the fundamentals. A team of people. Experienced professionals who share their knowledge and insights through online UX design courses.
Together with Parsons School of Design, Creative Bloq has assembled a handpicked team of UX designers, product designers and branding experts to deliver the course. Five or more modules provide insight into topics such as the concepts behind the human approach to UX design, user research and usability testing methods, design concepts, wireframes, and new technologies shaping user interface design .
Our contributors come from a variety of backgrounds and have approached the field of UX design through many different routes, from graphic design and branding to product design. This gives you a unique perspective on an industry that continues to evolve and develop at a rapid pace.Meet our contributors below and sign up for our fully remote UX Design Fundamentals course (opens in new tab) Start your UX design journey today.
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UX Design Fundamentals: Meet the Course Contributors
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Abigail Posner works at Google but comes from a diverse background that incorporates anthropology and advertising. Posner’s current role is to help advertisers and marketers understand users’ emotional relationships with the digital space and take a more strategic and creative approach. Her humanitarian lens on culture, business and technology brings a fresh perspective to product development, branding and marketing. While at Google, she also launched her Humanising Digital, the industry’s first thought her leadership series.
In our UX Design Fundamentals course, Posner helps frame how UX in all its forms benefits individuals. She combines personal and professional experience to help students open up to different kinds of her UX design.
“When I think of technology, whether it’s technology or furniture, or actually making something, I always think about what role it plays in culture and how humans really are. Ask them what they need, and that’s it,” says Posner.
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Trine Falbe has been in user experience design for 20 years and is now an independent ethical design advisor, consultant, trainer and entrepreneur building digital products. She has worked on digital her customer and user experience in news, kids, and various e-commerce businesses. Falbe has been a UX educator for 10 years, she has written two books on the subject, and she is often asked to speak at international conferences.
In our UX Design Fundamentals course, Trine brings this wealth of experience to the fore, enabling students to understand the broader area of user experience and how it is evolving.
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A key moment in Prakarn Nisarat’s career was when he moved to Seattle to work for the Office of Head Starts, which designs tools to help millions of families, especially children with autism and Down syndrome. . There he realized the power of design and began exploring how technology and design can improve people’s lives. Since then, he has incorporated new technologies such as augmented reality, smart he devices, and voice interfaces into his vision of design.
In recent years, he has helped Fortune 100 companies and universities launch multiple cutting-edge products, including Google, Meta, Microsoft, Lululemon, Novo Nordisk, University of Washington, and Stanford University. Now he’s a senior at Google where he works as an interaction designer working on the Google Assistant experience. He brings his knowledge and experience to our UX Design Foundations course and gives advice on his common UX mistakes to avoid.
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Daphne Lin’s background is in engineering and front-end development, but she is now transitioning into research, interaction design, and leadership. She is now at Spotify where she has worked as a design consultant for a wide range of clients ranging from small startups to large Fortune 500 companies. With a passion for human-centered design and putting the user at the center of every big decision, Daphne’s purpose is to find design-her solutions to problems using lean UX.
Contributing to our UX Design Fundamentals course, Daphne brings her insight and expertise to several modules, teaching you how to humanize user experience design with real people in mind. will give you
“Interaction in design is about designing information and actions that you reveal one at a time on a page so that users can easily follow a specific task,” she says. “At any point on the page, the user should be able to easily understand the main task.”
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Nena Salobir is an award-winning graphic designer and art director who has specialized in startup branding for over ten years. As a creative with her consulting experience in front-end web design, illustration and strategic marketing, she offers her unique holistic creative view.
Currently creative director and co-founder of Orbits, a unique virtual events platform, she successfully developed the platform during the pandemic and hosted events for Microsoft, Google, ASUS and UN Women in its first year. Did. Check out Salobir’s 6 essential tips for her UX design.
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Agnes Pyrchla’s work is rooted in creating thoughtful experiences. Now her product manager at Planet Labs, she works to make satellite imagery accessible to all types of viewers by abstracting the complexities of the geospatial domain and creating her simple yet sophisticated web tools. I manage a team that helps me understand.
Pyrchla has worked with both startups and Fortune 500 companies, and her work has been featured in MIT Tech Review, Business Insider, UX Collective, and Parsons Design School. Our UX Design Fundamentals course explores how designers should think beyond immediate experience, and how users’ experiences evolve over time and affect individuals differently. she shines the light She defines user behavior and how to interpret it to successfully preempt.
“The goal of UX is to help you think like someone in that position and really embody who that person is as if you were in that position,” she says. say. “It’s a shortcut to put yourself in someone else’s shoes and walk a mile.”
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Jacquelyn Iyamah is the founder of Black UX Collective. Black UX Collective is a platform highlighting the importance of black designers in technology, and Making the Body a Home helps people solve racial conditioning. She holds a master’s degree in interaction her design from the University of Baltimore and a bachelor’s degree in social work from the University of California, Berkeley. She works for Uber as a designer for
Through his UX Design Fundamentals course, Iyamah will teach you the importance of fair representation and the importance of creating products and experiences that benefit everyone.
“During the design thinking process, we need to constantly question ourselves and our prejudices to avoid designing products that continue to cause harm,” she says.
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Amir Baradaran is the founder and CEO of ABXR Studio, a cutting-edge platform democratizing XR creation for Web 3.0. He is an artist, technologist, entrepreneur, and academic specializing in artificial intelligence and augmented reality. He was a spatial computing researcher and principal lecturer at Columbia University, where ABXR was born.
Baradaran brings valuable experience to the UX Design Foundations course, empowering students to ask tough questions and broaden their horizons to design for the many, not the few. Inclusiveness and fair representation are key elements that today’s designers need to be aware of, and Baradaran aims to help students get them right.
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John Bricker is the founder of Gensler’s retail and branding studio. His Sort His focus on leadership and design experience has helped develop the Gensler brand into one of the design industry’s most recognizable brands.
In the UX Design Fundamentals course, Bricker provides unique and actionable insights from his experience working with many clients. He highlights the importance of addressing briefs, from cost considerations to understanding different physical and digital spaces, while managing expectations and coordinating the various movements necessary to create a successful user experience. I am emphasizing.
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Daniel Holtzman is an interactive creative director. Over his 10+ years, he has worked across multiple industries and applications, always with a strong focus on user-centered design. He currently works at Frog Design, the world’s leading creative consultancy, where he challenges the status quo to create and build transformative human experiences.
Holtzman contributed to many modules in the UX Design Foundations course, helping students understand the core fundamentals of user experience, how it’s evolving, and how they can take advantage of new movements in UX design. We support you in this way.
“UX is about how a product or experience impacts a user’s life and how that product or experience makes it easier for users to use, get more, and find more. It’s about understanding how to create something that’s fun to do and ultimately engage with the product in a more successful way.”
Other contributors to the UX Design Foundations course include Pilar Serna, senior design manager at Spotify, and Luke Cooley, a UX researcher on Google’s Cloud AI team. Deliver a great user experience from the start.
All our professionals are highly regarded in the industry and their unique experience provides behind-the-scenes knowledge and insight into the course. Sign up for the course below.
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