Kings College London UX Design Career Accelerator: Designing for user needs
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Designing for user needs is the 2nd course in a 6-month programme developed by digital experts at the Department of Digital Humanities at King’s College London, in collaboration with leaders from tech companies. Individuals who have earned this badge can demonstrate a range of skills, including creating user flows, wireframes and prototypes based on design principles and accessibility standards, running usability testing to improve designs and working effectively in Agile cross-functional teams.
- Type Validation
- Level Intermediate
- Time Weeks
- Cost Paid
Skills
- Accessibility Standards
- Agile Methodology
- Analytics Tools
- Card Sorting
- Cognitive Models
- Design Principles
- Figma (Design Software)
- Goal Setting
- Ideation
- Information Architecture
- Interaction Design
- KPI Reporting
- Microinteractions
- Miro
- Multisensory Design
- OKRs
- Prioritisation
- Prototype Testing
- Prototyping
- Psychology Principles
- Scrum
- Site Maps
- Storyboarding
- Tree testing
- Usability Heuristics
- Usability Testing
- User Experience (UX) Design
- User Flows
- Website/App Navigation Design
- Wireframing
Earning Criteria
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Earners of this badge were required to submit a mid-fidelity prototype, as well as a report that documented their design process including: key goals and metrics, storyboard, user flows, accessibility audit, low-fidelity wireframes, mid-fidelity wireframes and usability testing script. Additionally, they were required to perform usability testing, analyse their results and communicate their findings in a recorded presentation.