Mobile UX Design: The Beginner's Guide
How This Course Will Help Your Career
Mobile is everywhere—over 80% of the world’s population owns a smartphone. Half of the globe’s internet traffic comes from mobile. In fact, in Q2 of 2022, that number climbed to 58%.
The user experience is different on mobile. A user’s comprehension drops by 50% when they move from desktop to mobile. To overcome this, your content, visual design, navigation, etc. needs to be twice as intuitive.
Mobile is ubiquitous and inescapable, and it needs good user experience—that’s where you come in.
Mobile UX design skills are now an essential part of any UX designer’s skill set. This course will provide you with the foundations of mobile UX so that you can break into this extensive market.
What You Will Learn
The key design considerations when designing for mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets.
Different mobile design approaches, like adaptive and responsive design, and how to choose the best approach for your project.
What context of use is and why it’s so important in the mobile environment.
A human-centered process for designing mobile experiences.
How to differentiate your mobile UX strategy.
The entire lifecycle of mobile UX design from research to launch.
A mobile-specific approach and heuristics to evaluate your mobile interfaces.
The importance of designing for inclusion and a framework to challenge your design decisions.
In the “Build Your Portfolio” project, you’ll find a series of practical exercises that will give you first-hand experience with the methods we cover. You will build on your project in each lesson so once you have completed the course you will have a thorough case study for your portfolio.
Mobile User Experience Design: Introduction, has been built on evidence-based research and practice. It is taught by the CEO of ExperienceDynamics.com, Frank Spillers, author, speaker and internationally respected Senior Usability practitioner.
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Is This Course Right for You?
This course is an introduction to mobile UX, so it’s suitable for both newcomers and experienced practitioners.
It’s not just those who are concerned with the design that can benefit from learning how to design mobile user experiences. We believe that in order for organizations to deliver the best user experiences and related business functions, they should have a strong understanding of the user experience and how it can be developed in a mobile environment.
In particular, this course will benefit:
UX, UI and Web Designers—whether beginners or professionals—looking for industry-led expertise to supplement their knowledge and advance their careers.
Marketing Teams and Management looking to leverage the mobile environment for brand-building.
Web and App Developers looking to improve the usability of their products and to communicate better with designers and product managers.
UX Team Leaders and Product Managers looking to build a better product roadmap based on sound human-centered processes.
Operations Managers and/or anyone working with mobile experiences (web and app) and looking to improve the product performance for users and business stakeholders.
Learn and Work with a Global Team of Designers
You’ll join a global community and work together to improve your skills and career opportunities. Connect with helpful peers and make friends with like-minded individuals as you push deeper into the exciting and booming industry of design.
Lessons in This Course
- Each week, one lesson becomes available.
- There's no time limit to finish a course. Lessons have no deadlines.
- Estimated learning time: 13 hours 21 mins spread over 7 weeks .
Lesson 0: Welcome and Introduction
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0.1: Welcome to Mobile UX Design: The Beginner’s Guide (13 mins)
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0.2: Build Your Portfolio (2 mins)
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0.3: Let Our Community Help You (1 min)
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0.4: How to Earn Your Course Certificate (16 mins)
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0.5: Expand Your Network and Grow Your Skills in Our Online Forums (5 mins)
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0.6: Meet and learn from design professionals in your area (1 min)
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0.7: Gain Timeless Skills Through Courses From the Interaction Design Foundation (21 mins)
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0.8: Mandatory vs. Optional Lesson Items (7 mins)
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0.9: A Mix Between Video-Based and Text-Based Lesson Content (6 mins)
Lesson 1: Learn the Basics of Mobile User Experience
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1.1: Welcome and Introduction (11 mins)
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1.2: How to Optimize Your Designs for Smartphones vs Tablets (19 mins)
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1.3: 3 Key Parameters to Design and Evaluate the Mobile User Experience (46 mins)
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1.4: Simple Guidelines When You Design for Mobile (18 mins)
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1.5: How to Design for Micro-Moments (20 mins)
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1.6: 8 Goals of Mobile UX (40 mins)
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1.7: How to Ethically Design for Inclusivity (17 mins)
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1.8: Discussion: Challenge the Assumptions of “Swipe Left”Design (8 mins)
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1.9: Build Your Portfolio: Evaluate an App with the 8 Goals of Mobile UX (9 mins)
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1.10: Congratulations and Recap (7 mins)
Lesson 2: How to Kick Start Your Mobile User Experience Design
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2.1: Welcome and Introduction (2 mins)
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2.2: Native, Web or Hybrid App: Which One is Better? (1 hour 10 mins)
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2.3: Context of Use for Mobile (25 mins)
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2.4: Responsive Design: Best Practices (17 mins)
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2.5: Adaptive Design: Deliver a Powerful User Experience (55 mins)
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2.6: Should You Choose between Responsive and Adaptive Design? (12 mins)
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2.7: Usability vs Desirability in Mobile UX (16 mins)
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2.8: Build Your Portfolio: Adapt to the User’s Context (8 mins)
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2.9: Congratulations and Recap (7 mins)
Lesson 3: Understand the Mobile User Experience Design Process
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3.1: Welcome and Introduction (2 mins)
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3.2: 5 Steps for Human-Centered Mobile Design (19 mins)
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3.3: UX Design for Mobile: Step 1—Assess the Current Situation (10 mins)
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3.4: UX Design for Mobile: Step 2—Understand Your User Needs (32 mins)
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3.5: UX Design for Mobile: Step 3—Define Your Value Proposition and Emotional Value (19 mins)
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3.6: UX Design for Mobile: Step 4—Differentiate Your Mobile UX Strategy (58 mins)
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3.7: UX Design for Mobile: Step 5—Sketch, Review and Refine (19 mins)
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3.8: How Does Sociability Impact Mobile User Experience? (33 mins)
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3.9: Discussion Exercise: Put UX Strategy into Practice (8 mins)
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3.10: The Mobile UX Lifecycle (15 mins)
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3.11: Build Your Portfolio: Differentiate your Mobile UX Strategy (8 mins)
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3.12: Congratulations and Recap (9 mins)
Lesson 4: Use Heuristics to Validate Your Mobile UX Designs
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4.1: Welcome and Introduction (2 mins)
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4.2: How to Apply Nielsen’s 10 Usability Heuristics to Mobile Design (35 mins)
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4.3: Use These Mobile-Specific Heuristics to Evaluate UX (13 mins)
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4.4: How to Apply the USE Scorecard to Evaluate Mobile UX (44 mins)
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4.5: Build Your Portfolio: Put Your Heuristic Evaluation Skills into Practice (11 mins)
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4.6: Congratulations and Recap (6 mins)
Lesson 5: Course Certificate, Final Networking, and Course Wrap-up
Learning Paths
This course is part of 5 learning paths:
How Others Have Benefited
Sarah Reif, United States
“The examples were easy to follow and the mixed video/reading elements really complimented each other throughout. Frank did a really excellent job breaking down just how different the contexts of use are for mobile and how to adapt and think about those contexts when crafting mobile products.”
Rich McNabb, New Zealand
“Frank is a FANTASTIC instructor.”
Polina Pashkevich, Belarus
“Structured info and a lot of related materials for deeper learning.”
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