# Design Courses ## Learn UX Design ### User Experience Research and Design Specialization by University of Michigan This FREE course will help you gain a solid foundation in UX Research and Design to create great products and advance your career. As a student you will gain hands-on experience with taking a product from initial concept, through user research, ideation and refinement, formal analysis, prototyping, and user testing, applying perspectives and methods to ensure a great user experience at every step. {% embed url="" %} [A similar version of this course is also offered by the University of California San Diego.](https://www.coursera.org/specializations/interaction-design?ranMID=40328\&ranEAID=DqiaAnGlGE8\&ranSiteID=DqiaAnGlGE8-ZNovadSz7xHESZiYXCOEVg\&siteID=DqiaAnGlGE8-ZNovadSz7xHESZiYXCOEVg\&utm_content=3\&utm_medium=partners\&utm_source=linkshare\&utm_campaign=DqiaAnGlGE8\&source=post_page-----52154a188af3----------------------#courses) ### Product Design by Google & Udacity Created in collaboration with Google, this course blends theory and practice to teach you product validation, UI/UX practices, Google’s Design Sprint and the process for setting and tracking actionable metrics. Do note that they offer both a free & paid version of this course. {% embed url="" %} ### DesignerUp DesignerUp school aims to cultivate more mindful UI/UX designers that are better equipped with the hard and soft skills to have fulfilling careers creating products for the digital world. Through their online **live webinars, tutorials, podcasts and full Product Design Master Course** they are making high-quality design education more accessible and affordable **for aspiring designers everywhere**. {% embed url="" %} ### Hack Design The world's best designers have created a digestible and iterative lesson plans for you to learn the critical elements of design. {% embed url="" %} ## Introduction to UX and Accessible Design Explore the world of accessible design, and discover how you can start a career as a UX designer. {% embed url="" %} ## Learn UX Research ### Zero to UX By Kevin Liang On his channel, on how to conduct UX Research and when and what methods to use. In addition to this you will also get access to videos on how to ace the UX research interview. {% embed url="" %} ## Learn UI Design ### UI Design Tools by DesignCode.io {% embed url="" %} This is a fantastic website with complete free courses on the best UI design software. They have free courses on [Sketch](https://designcode.io/sketch-learn), [Figma](https://designcode.io/design-system-figma), [Framer](https://designcode.io/framer-x/), [Webflow](https://designcode.io/webflow-course/) and [Protopie](https://www.protopie.io/). Apart from this they also have paid courses on how to code out the prototypes you make using CSS, JSock, Swift, React, React Native, Swift UI and Vue.js. [**Start Learning Today**](https://designcode.io/) ### **Learn UI Design by Eric Kennedy** With over [20 hours of video lessons](https://learnui.design/#syllabus), filled with strategies and live examples covering all major areas of UI design. Watch Erik, as he *actually* design dozens of examples right in front of you. {% embed url="" %} ### Meaningful Motion UI Meaningful Motion UI is a course where you learn how to integrate motion to your user interfaces using inVision Studio. Not only does it teach you the software but also the concepts necessary to understand the impact motion can have as well as the practical tips and techniques to apply them. {% embed url="" %} ### Sketch App TV ![](/files/-LwCj9mkQPcut3TWJGuu) Learn Sketch by watching these free tutorials. The Sketch tutorials feature workflows, plugins and inspiration for new user interfaces. They also a free course on Principle and a ton of UI Kit freebies. [**Start Learning Today**](https://sketchapp.tv/) ### Refactoring UI {% embed url="" %} Steve Schoger of the Refactoring UI team has a set of 6 fantastic videos which show you how he improves the design of 6 websites using a set of design strategies and tricks. [**Start Learning Today**](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxqiDtkXtOCNJdckODHk9YA/videos) ### Daily Design {% embed url="" %} In this Youtube series Mackenzie Child will be designing a new UI element every single day... Whether that be a little widget or a full page design (like today). [**Start Learning Today**](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL23ZvcdS3XPLj9eyU-9whn27EJuUZ0W2b) ### **UI Talks** ![](/files/-LwD4TaC_nBg1nVfZ_Aq) Find conference talks on anything related to **User Experience** design {% embed url="" %} ## Learn UX Writing ### Foundations of UX Writing In this FREE industry-leading course, you’ll learn about UX writing processes, testing, research, and best practices. 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