Creating a Great User Experience for Mobile Apps

Online Course

Future Learn
Creating a Great User Experience for Mobile Apps

What is the course about?

Creating a Great User Experience for Mobile Apps
The course Creating a Great User Experience for Mobile Apps is an online class provided by University of Leeds through Future Learn. It may be possible to receive a verified certification or use the course to prepare for a degree.

Discover the essentials of user experience and bring your product to life by designing your own mobile app.

Course description
  • Explore the core principles behind user design and user experience
  • 2 weeks
  • News, shopping, banking, social media; most of us have multiple mobile apps on our smartphones, but how are they made and what makes a good one?
  • Dive into the world of app design with the Institute of Coding and learn how to create a great user experience.
  • You’ll hear from industry professionals on how they go about designing and building apps for their users.
  • You’ll also have the opportunity to produce clickable prototypes from your own sketches and create your own app.
  • How a smartphone works
  • The features that make a phone interactive
  • Looking for problems to solve with apps
  • Designing an app
  • Testing an app
  • Meeting an app development team
  • Identify the features of a smartphone that influence the design of an app.
  • Describe how interactive and visual features contribute to great user experience of apps.
  • Discuss the various roles and stages necessary to make a mobile app.
  • Identify and describe a simple problem that an app could solve.
  • Design screens and architecture of a mobile app using pen, paper and your own smartphone.
  • Produce clickable prototypes from your sketches and test them.
  • This course is designed for people who have digital skills but would like to build confidence in using digital technology in the workplace.
  • This may include those studying for A-levels, those who have a degree, or those who want to improve their career prospects.
  • The course will also be useful for anyone in employment who wants to boost their digital skills or anyone returning to the workplace who’d like to gain confidence in how working practices have evolved.
  • You might also be interested in the other courses in the Digital Skills for the Workplace collection from the University of Leeds and the Institute of Coding.
  • University of Leeds
  • As one of the UK’s largest research-based universities, the University of Leeds is a member of the prestigious Russell Group and a centre of excellence for teaching.
  • Institute of Coding
  • The Institute of Coding is a family of learners, businesses and educators creating a new way to develop the digital skills needed at work and beyond.

Prerequisites & Facts

Creating a Great User Experience for Mobile Apps

Course Topic

IT & Computer Science

University, College, Institution

University of Leeds

Course Skill Level

Course Language

English

Place of class

Online, self-paced (see curriculum for more information)

Degree

Certificate

Degree & Cost

Creating a Great User Experience for Mobile Apps

To obtain a verified certificate from Future Learn / University of Leeds you have to finish this course or the latest version of it, if there is a new edition. The class may be free of charge, but there could be some cost to receive a verified certificate or to access the learning materials. The specifics of the course may have been changed, please consult the provider to get the latest quotes and news.
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School: University of Leeds
Topic: IT & Computer Science