Why User Experience Design?

“Companies are actively investing to build up talent in UX and UI as user satisfaction with the online interaction experience of products has taken top priority.”
– Straits Times, 2019

Ever wondered how the websites you visit are functional, easy to read and access? These are the works of UX designers. If you want to try being one, then go get a UX design course from Smartcademy Singapore!

The user experience design course from Smartcademy is an in-depth look and feel of how UX has become one of the most crucial aspects of web development.
User experience has been endlessly regarded as the ‘face value’ of a website and most of us agree.

Supported By:

Intro To User Experience Design
Administered by the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA), the CITREP+ funding support is eligible for Singapore Citizens and Permanent Residents. Valid for courses commencing from 1 April 2019. Terms and conditions apply. Please visit go.gov.sg/tesacitrep for full details.

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Overview

Course will span across 7 lessons, each lesson will be 3 hours
Consist of 3 hours of assignments & capstone project
No prior design/technical background is required

Course Fees

Course fees will be S$2500 before funding support.

Funding Support

Eligible Singaporeans/PRs can apply for funding support up to 90% (T&C applies). ONLY Eligible Singaporeans who fits the criteria as a Student/Full-Time NSF/Just ORD can apply for funding support up to 100% (T&C applies). For more info, click here!

Just for clarification purposes

This funding support can also be used for other courses supported under the same programme.
Meaning to say you can go for Course A, B and C then apply for funding support for all courses (T&C apply).

Course Schedule

Intro To User Experience Design – March Intake 2021: (Live Webinar)

6, 7, 13, 14, 20, 21, 27 March 2021
Saturday & Sunday: 9AM – 12PM or 12:30PM – 3:30PM
You can pick one of the time slots above
Kindly note that you have to commit to the time slot chosen for the above dates

As there are limited slots for those want to claim under the 100% subsidy tier, please fill in this interest list below and we will be in touch with you once there are openings.
https://forms.gle/rjPRQ32kPET2bJ3J9

There are no changes for those that are claiming under the 70% or 90% subsidy tiers.

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Course Outline

Learning Objectives 1.0:

Introduction to User Experience Design

Breakdown:

What is User Experience design?
UX VS UI
Why is UX important?
Who practices UX

Learning Objectives 1.1:

Project Introduction

Breakdown:

How will the project work?
What you’re expected to deliver
Our schedule for the rest of the class
How you’ll be assessed
Project Brief
Team formation

Learning Objectives 2.0:

Overview of the different User Research

Breakdown:

Why user research?
Who are the users?
What do we need to know about our users?
Double diamond process
Types of user research

Learning Objectives 2.1:

Deep dive into user interview

Breakdown:

Intro to user interview
How to prepare for an interview
How to conduct a user interview
Post-interview

Learning Objectives 2.2:

Intro to Competitive, comparison and task analysis

Breakdown:

Why competitive/comparison analysis?
Different examples of competitive analysis
Understanding task analysis

Learning Objectives 3.0:

Synthesize data collected from qualitative research

Breakdown:

Intro to Affinity Mapping
Affinity Mapping Exercise

Learning Objectives 3.1:

Intro to Persona

Breakdown:

What is a user persona
Examples of user personas
Exercise

Learning Objectives 4.0:

Intro to Prototyping

Breakdown:

What is prototyping
Benefits of a prototype
Crazy 8’s Exercise
User Scenario
HMW statement

Learning Objectives 4.1:

Usability testing

Breakdown:

What is Usability testing?
Why is usability testing so important?
How to conduct it?
Usability testing exercise

Learning Objectives 5.0:

Intro to Figma

Breakdown:

Key difference between Figma app
Key and essential features used in Figma
Basic of sketch app walkthrough
Commonly used hotkeys to speed up your workflow
User interface (UI) Exercise
Resources

Learning Objectives 5.1:

Sketch app / Figma Exercise

Breakdown:

Start translating User Interface
Gather inspirations from similar apps
Learn how to source for resources around designing an app

Learning Objectives 6.0:

Intro to Marvel app prototyping tool

Breakdown:

Prototyping Exercise: Goat app
Getting started with Marvel app
Marvel Class Exercise
Today’s most used tools in the industry
Sharing of artefacts with the class

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Course Instructors

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Learn from the best instructors of UX designer courses from Singapore! Get insider tips, in-depth lessons, and real-life applications of each lesson from Smartcademy.

Emerging Industry
Demand for User Experience Designers is booming right now.

High Salary
Salary can go up to S$120k for a mid-level User Experience Designers.

Future Prospects
Companies are placing greater emphasis on User Experience.

According to EDB, some 50,000 ICT jobs are expected to be created in Singapore in the next few years. Michael Page also released that demand for technology jobs in Singapore rose by over 20% in the past 12 months.

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