Intro to User Interface Design 🇺🇸

Build scalable design systems and bring wireframes to life through UI best practices, styles, components, and more.

Are you interested in learning how user interface can improve the user experience? Our user interface design course teaches students how to bring wireframes to life by considering visual and design principles for the web, pattern-level thinking, Figma styles, components and complex components, and the importance of file hygiene.

You’ll learn how to think like a UI designer and confidently build design systems that scale.

What you’ll learn

What the user interface is, when it was invented and why it’s important

How to optimize your use of web design tools like Figma to create styles, components, complex components, and layouts

How to spot and analyze pattern-level thinking and design systems in everyday web

How to reduce design debt in your own designs by engaging in best practices for naming and organizing layers, frames and files

How to bring wireframes to life to create an interesting, thoughtful, and unique – yet familiar – interface.

How to continue to prioritize the user experience in user interface design