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User Interface & User Experience (UI/UX) Design Course

Here at Leinad studios, you will learn current best practices and conventions in UI/UX design and apply them to create effective and compelling screen-based experiences for websites or mobile apps using Figma. From there you will learn sketching, replicating your sketches in these softwares, color theory, design usability for developers, adding microinteractions, prototyping, creating user research and user persona, journey mapping, user flow and much more. Classes are always fun and insightful so go ahead, enroll and join us.

 

Join the bootcamp and become a skilled UI/UX Designer in 3 months.

UI/UX Design Course:

Leinad Studios Academy is the best place to learn UI/UX in Lagos, Nigeria. You will learn the fundamentals of UI/UX and the business value of UI/UX design in today’s fast paced growing field.

You will master the principles of accessibility and heuristics, covering areas such as text, navigation and links, colors, and assistive technologies.
Discover the importance of UX Research, and what can go wrong if you don’t do it correctly. Learn how to carry out interviews, focus groups, and surveys. Become an expert problem-solver, by exploring techniques such as affinity mapping. Then, learn all about persona creation and how to create a journey map.

Learn different ideation techniques such as brainstorming, bodystorming, mind-mapping, and more. See how to organize your content in an effective way to create a clean, well-designed interface.

Understand the value of prototyping once you have come up with several ideas, getting an in-depth explanation of the what, why, and when of prototyping. See how to carry out a smooth design-to-development handoff, learning about useful tools along the way.

Learn about how to measure UX and how to present your findings in a creative way to a client, as well as how to show the importance of UX design within a company. Create your own case study from scratch, documenting your entire UX design process and showcasing your work for your portfolio, and finish the course with tips when it comes to interviewing for UI/UX positions.

What you will learn in this course:

1. Introduction
2. What is User Interface
3. What is User Experience(UX)
4. Style guides
I. Typography
II. Colours
5. Creating Color Scheme, Color theory and Color combination
6. Using layout grids
7. Learning Alignments
I. Manual Allignments
II. Automatic Allignments (Auto layout)
III. Text Allignments
8. Creating Text Styles, Color Styles and Grid Styles
9. Learning plugins for:
I. Typescale generation
II. Typestyles
III. Color styles
IV. Icons
10. Creating buttons
11. Do’s and Don’ts in Typography
12. Do’s and Don’ts in using font weight
13. Introduction to UX Process
14. Design ideation techniques
15. Learning Wireframing tools Like:
I. Miro
II. Balsamiq Wireframes
16. Introduction to UX Research Methods
17. Competitive Analysis, usability testing Interviews focus groups and surveys
18. Detecting and defining the problem
19. Persona creation
20. Journey mapping
21. Empathy mapping
22. Information Architecture (Card sorting and Tree testing)
23. Value of Prototyping
24. Different types of prototypes and prototype tools
25. Micro-interactions and rapid prototyping
26. UX design and Product design similarities
27. Designing and importing illustrations using Adobe illustrator
28. User Wireflows
29. User testing Best Practices
30. Working with developers
31. Presenting to stakeholders
32. Case Studies 101
33. Design Presentation
34. Interviewing and design exercises
35. Final Project
36. UX Portfolio building:
I. Introduction to Notion
II. Creating and editing portfolio design templates with Notion

EXTRAS
– CV/Resume Review
– How to attend to interview questions

Skills you will gain:

Design Thinking

Website wireframe

UX

Problem Solving

Adobe Illustrator

User Research

Information Architecture

User Experience

Sketch

Figma

Visual design

Critical Thinking

Portfolio Carousel

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Product Design Bootcamp (Weekdays)

Earlybird Discount
₦100,000 8 weeks
  • Website Interface
  • Mondays and Wednesdays
  • Mobile & Web Interface Designs
  • Portfolio Presentation
  • Prototyping
  • Plugins and Add-ons
  • User Experience

Product Design Bootcamp (Weekend)

Earlybird Discount
₦100,000 8 weeks
  • Website Interface
  • Saturdays only
  • Mobile & Web Interface Designs
  • Portfolio Presentation
  • Prototyping
  • Plugins and Add-ons
  • User Experience

Frequently Asked Questions for UI/UX

What is the difference between UI and UX

User Interface (UI) is all about how the product interface look and function. User Experience (UX) design is about the overall feel of the user experience. Ux designers conducts extensive user research on a target user, their needs and user journey. UI designers consider all the visual aspects of the users’ journey.

What is the difference between UXUI and Product Design?

UIUX is focused on the usability of the product and Product Design is focused on the overall feel of the product from start to finish.

UIUX focuses on the users need while Product design focuses on the business needs and users need and it includes more elements.

Do I need to learn how to code to do UIUX?

The simple answer is No. UIUX does not require coding. However, learning how to code will be an added advantage, e.g you will be able to expand your job opportunities, design better usable products and improve your communication with other team members.

Is UIUX a good career?

Yes, UI/UX is an amazing career with lots of opportunities and competitive salary. Websites, Mobile apps, games are all around us, so UI/UX designers have very solid influence on the look, feel and experience of the digital space.

Who coined the term UX?

Don Norman, a cognitive scientist is credited with coining the term User Experience in the late 1990’s.

What is the future of UI/UX?

What is the salary of UI/UX designers?

In Nigeria, the salary of a UI/UX designer ranges from 30,000 naira (Entry/Internship) to 500,000 naira.

In the US, the salary ranges from $30,000 to $520,000.

 

Also read: Average Salary of a UI/UX Designer in Nigeria

What software are used for UI/UX?

The software or tools used for UI/UX include(but not limited to):

 

Watch Introduction to Figma and accelerate your learning

 

Watch Introduction to Adobe XD and accelerate your learning

 

 

Watch Sketch for beginners and fast track your learning

 

 

Watch Introduction to Balsamiq and get bootstrapped

 

 

Watch Introduction to Axure RP and accelerate your learning

 

 

Watch InVision for beginners

 

 

Watch Protopie tutorial for beginners

What system requirement is best for UI/UX?

These are the average system or PC 💻 spec you should have for UIUX:

 

CPU Generation: Intel i5

Graphics Card or GPU: A dedicated GPU like an NVIDIA GeForce model

Storage: At least 250gb of SSD for MAC or 500gb HDD for Windows

RAM: 6gb RAM minimum

Remember, the higher the spec of your PC, the better!😊😁

What are the responsibilities of a good UI/UX Designer?

The responsibilities of UI/UX designers are:

  1. Gather and evaluate user requirements

  2. Illustrate ideas using sitemaps, storyboards and process flows

  3. Create page navigation buttons

  4. Develop UI prototypes

  5. Prepare and present rough drafts to teams and stakeholders

  6. Identify and troubleshoot UX problems

  7. Adhere to style standards on fonts, colors and images.

What are the roles in UX ?

UX Designer

UX designers are also called generalist as they cover the entire UX process especially in smaller companies. Other titles for UX designers include Experience Designers, Interaction Designers and UX/UI Designers.

 

Deliverables for UX Designer:

  1. Wireframes

  2. User Personas

  3. User Journey Maps

  4. User Testing Reports

  5. Style guides and design systems

 

UX Researcher

UX Researchers focus on the use of qualitative and quantitative research methods to provide real user information which other designers use to inform their designs. Other titles for this role are Researchers and User Researchers

 

Deliverables for UX Researchers:

 

 

UX Writer

 

UX Writers are focused on the words in the design which include everything from buttons to error messages. They help create the narrative. Other titles for this position are Content Strategists and Copywriters.

 

Deliverables for UX Writers

What is the duration to learn UI/UX Design?

You can learn UI/UX design skills in less than 10 weeks. However, to be a professional or expert, it can take from 1-4 years. Remember, learning or practicing UI/UX as a career is a never ending process.

What other courses can I take to complement UI/UX Design?

These are the other courses you can take with Leinad Studios that can add to your skillset as a UI/UX Designer:

History of UI/UX Design

User Experience has its roots in human factors and the field of Ergonomics. Since 1940s, this field has focused primarily on the interaction between a human user, their environment and machines to how designs are created with the users in view. As more computers at workplace multiplied, User Experience started to become a good observation for designers.

Back in the ages, primitive tools were used by humans for communication. They did these by drawing representations of animals, nature and objects on stone surface known as Hieroglyphs. Overtime, this act developed into art, writing, storytelling and documentation.

As these tools became more sophisticated, revolution of the industrial age improved productivity.

Inventions such as the typewriter improved writing compared to the use of pen. However, its limitation was it was necessary to learn how to type before they can be used.

Softwares were developed and needed user interface guide or reference that will enable users to have easy access to different components of a system.

Replications of objects in real life were created to assist users to easily adapt and interact with the UI elements, these were called Skeuomorphism. An example is a landline or presented with an icon for calling and receiving calls.