Review: Interaction Design by Designlab

This is a review of the online course Interaction Design by Designlab.

This is part of our series of reviews of online UX courses.  Read some of our other reviews or see our full list of online UX courses.

Course Information

• Course Name: Interaction Design
• Creator: Designlab
• Length: 10 hours per week for 4 weeks (plus 4 Skype sessions with a mentor)
• Intended Audience: Anyone looking to develop better communication of and confidence in their interaction design work, as well as people looking to develop their ability to understand and work with product designers.
• What You’ll Learn: A strong foundation in interface and interaction design. During the course students develop a portfolio of work that demonstrates an understanding of core principles — like information architecture, interaction states, system feedback and consistency. Project work includes the creation of user flow diagrams, wireframes and sitemaps.
• Assumed Knowledge: Some basic knowledge of UX principals would be useful, but the course is intuitive enough for an absolute beginner to benefit from it. A basic knowledge of Photoshop (or similar) is useful to complete some of the assignments.
• Price: US $299 for the 4-week course

Review

This course is not like any UX course that I have taken to date – and I have taken a few. The first and most obvious difference was the fact that this isn’t quite as much of a ‘take on demand’ course as the ones that I have experienced previously. Designlab courses have a fixed start date, an end date, and a number of assignments and mentor sessions booked in along the way. In short, you have to make sure you take it at a time when you can block out the required ~10 hours per week. I was a bit blasé about that side of things and ended up feeling like a naughty school kid that was getting behind with my homework!

Time commitment aside, this course really kicks ass. My first impression of the interface was excellent. It is slick, attractive and intuitive. I came across a few annoying bugs further down the line, but as far as first impressions go, DesignLab get 10/10.

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