The complete guide to design communication
What you'll learn
- How to justify your design decisions
- How to convince stakeholders to implement design changes
- How to effectively facilitate user research
- How to build up trust as a designer
- How to resolve communication conflicts
- How to get hired for your dream UX designer job
Requirements
- Understanding basic UX design principles
- Cursory knowledge of Agile process
Description
Look on any job posting for any User Experience (UX) position, and you'll see "Communicate", "Collaborate" or "Present" as part of the description.
Communication is a vital part of UX, whether it's interviewing stakeholders, getting them to approve your designs, or even getting hired as a UX designer.
But design communication is a skill that is different from every day conversations: you may be the newest member of a team, trying to convince people who have worked with a tool for 20 years that it needs to be changed.
So how do you communicate as a designer?
In this course, I'll teach you the best practices for design communication, in design, research, and even interviewing. I'll go over opportunities where you will be asked to communicate, including interviews, workshops, and meetings. I will then end with how you can leverage design communication to get a job as a UX professional.
I hope you'll join me in learning how to communicate your designs.
Who this course is for:
- People familiar with UX design that want to make it a career
- UX researchers, designers, or Web designers who want to communicate more effectively
- Business stakeholders who are interested in finding how to incorporate design into the business process
Course content
- Preview03:54
- Preview07:45
- 1 questionWhat is your communication goal?
- 09:51How to address "One Small Change?"
- 1 questionHow would you address "One Small Change?"
- 04:24What will you learn in this course?
Instructor
![Christopher Wong](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 64 64"%3E%3C/svg%3E){kind=avatar}
- 3.9 Instructor Rating
- 17 Reviews
- 128 Students
- 2 Courses
Christopher is a Healthcare-focused UX designer and researcher. He graduated with a Masters in Human-Centered Computing from UMBC and has since worked as a UX fellow for the National Institutes of Health.
During that time, he acted as a liaison in conjunction with the Nielsen/Norman Group during their evaluation of a cancer research system as well as re-designing a cancer research tool for patient use.
He is currently a UX Specialist at Northrop Grumman, where he has designed for and led several UX projects from end-to-end with high profile clients.