UX/UI Designer
Upcoming course: May 2024 | 250 Hours | 6 Months | Evening course
Your best path to a career transformation. This part-time UX/UI design program features expert instruction, hands-on projects, and a real connection to the industry to get you hired.
User Experience (UX) Design is creating and designing digital products and services that are useful, usable, and desirable. UX is based on how a person feels when using a product or service, like an app, website, or software application. User Experience Specialists centralize the user in the design and development process and create an environment where customers consistently have positive, meaningful experiences.
A UX/UI Designer is a person who can develop a digital product. In doing so, the UX/UI Designer has a direct effect on customer satisfaction and product adoption and scale.
70% of design teams increased headcount in the past year. Employers rate UX/UI as the No. 1 most in-demand product design title. We can get you to that sought-after job!
Explore The Art and Science Behind Human-Computer Interaction
Learn the professional terms and scientific basis of UX/UI, while acquiring correct practices and methods. You will develop a knowledge of networks, mobile & apps, e-commerce, psychological principles and more.
Open Doors With Industry Connections
Equip yourself to succeed in a rapidly expanding field with help from our network of UX experts, instructors, hiring partners, and alumni. The UX/UI Designer curriculum was created in collaboration with the industry’s leading companies to make our programs as relevant as possible to the local industry’s needs, assuring you’ll be job-ready as soon as the program ends.
Deliver a Professional Project
Throughout the program, practical skills in user’s research, information architecture design and user oriented characterization are acquired through hands-on use of analysis tools and examples of real-life notable UX/UI projects.
Who Is the Program For?
Driven and motivated individuals with or without design background, who wish to launch a highly sought-after career as a UX/UI Designer.
During the program, you'd develop knowledge of design principles and techniques for website, mobile, eCommerce, and psychological principles of human-machine interaction. The program would establish your skills in research of user-oriented characterization, information hierarchy and design, wireframing and pixel-perfect design, all through hands-on exercises and a final Bring It Together (BIT) project.
Top Notch Professionals
This unique program was built by a professional team made up of the leading experts in User Experience, with vast knowledge and experience in training, too.
Daniela Mateus
Program Trainer
Daniela has a huge passion for technology.
very important components for Daniela: technology and creativity.
Carla Garcia
Program Coordinator
Carla will manage the course, ensuring that you will have access to all tools, content, project and study materials.
It will support you throughout your journey as a student at TechOf.
Shai Rosen
Head of UI/UX Program
Shai is considered one of the leading lecturers in Israel in User Experience. He is the Director of Strategy, Consulting and Digital Customer Experience at Uniq UI, a Real Commerce Group company. Shai has experienced and created the digital world for over 20 years through almost any tech job role – a software developer, team leader, project manager, strategic consultant, VP Marketing, and VP Strategy.
Program Curriculum
This module will emphasize the importance of user experience in every product we create. Further, we will learn the origin of the concept, when and how it grew, and we will set the foundations for optimal user experience and advanced principles of user experience.
- Familiarity with basic concepts and with the basic software and pen tool
- Creating and editing routes
- Transformation and complex forms
- Graphic style and text
- Working with data visualization tools
- Creating UI elements & forms
- Basic concepts in image processing and familiarity with the software
- Photoshop drawing, working layers and working with Presets and libraries
- Photoshop photo overhaul, working with selection areas building an initial montage
- Saving and exporting files, working with Artboards and Vectors
- Creating GIFs
- Basic concepts and familiarity with the software
- Understanding responsive
- Creating a low & high-fidelity wireframe
- Creating an interactive prototype
- Creating component base interface
- Digital formats, resolution, and basic Gestalt principles
- Typography for the web, combining fonts and arranging text
- Composition, image making, visual hierarchy
- Layout and grid
- Shapes, lines and digital art
- Web design – concept, mood board & design
- Colors, theme and palates
- Accessibility in digital interface
- UX designer role
- Research methods
- Cognitive process
- Controls and information architecture
- Mental models
- Prioritize and set up features
- eCommerce best practice
- Mobile first vs hybrid apps
- Responsive
- Data visualization
- Creating design systems
- Interactive prototype
- Hands-on creating UI layout
- Creating and solving real-life problems using up-to-date technology-driven products
- Data visualization
- Storyboard & motion design in digital interface
- Atomic design principles
- Dashboards
- Creating your first portfolio
- Preparatory workshop for market: home tasks, CV (understanding your personal strength), getting ready for job interviews
- Hand-off process
- Modern web technologies and working with development teams
FAQs
Working in UX involves various elements of research, testing, business analysis, project management and psychology, as well as the more hands-on design tasks such as wireframing and prototyping. Despite the variety the role offers, day-to-day roles usually include conducting user research, designing user flows, determining the architecture of digital products and more.
Yes! All graduates who have successfully completed the program will receive a User Experience Specialist certificate.
Thousands of alumni use their course certificate to demonstrate skills to potential employers, along with their LinkedIn networks. Our UX/UI programs are well-regarded by many top employers, who contribute to our curriculum and partner with us to train their own teams.
If there are no restrictions, studies take place mainly at our physical center. In case of any travel or gathering restrictions, the program moves seamlessly online – with live interactive sessions with your trainers. Some learning materials – like class recordings and topics for self-study – can be watched on-demand from anywhere.
Register your interest, take a 1-hour online assessment test, and have a talk with one of our career advisors.
This is an entry-level program for beginners and career changes, no background needed. However, all candidates take a computerized assessment to ensure that they have the right personality, as well as the basic math and logic skills, to complete the program and be successful in their future jobs.
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