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Web-based, self-guided online courses, with over seven hours of on-demand video.

Over 400 total enrollments since November 2018

An Introduction to User-Centered Design Bootcamp

This course will explore several techniques for flushing out high-level design solutions for your projects and get inside the minds of your target audience. You will be empowered with methods you can immediately implement in your day-to-day work. Content of this course has an emphasis towards user experience as it relates to software, but the ideas can be applied to many disciplines.
The course will include:

  • Definitions for User-Centered Design (UCD), User Experience (UX), and User Interface (UI);
  • Design-Thinking Strategies and Methods;
  • User-Centered Design strategies for human-centered problem solving; and,
  • Research methods to gain a better understanding of your target-audience.
  • 1.5 hours on-demand video
  • 5 downloadable resources
  • Assignments / Activities included

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Legacy Courses

A User Experience Approach to
Idea Generation and Evaluation

This course will explore hands-on techniques for generating and evaluating ideas, including methods that work for both individuals and small teams.
The course will include:

  • Identifying and forming consensus on key target audiences;
  • Generating ideas to prioritizing capabilities for new solutions and the related benefits; and,
  • Specifying key objectives to measure and gauge for success. 
  • 1.5 hours on-demand video
  • 5 downloadable resources
  • Assignments / Activities included

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A User Experience Approach to
ROI + Brainstorming

This course will explore hands-on techniques for quantifying time spent on brainstorming, and identifying a common baseline for a new project or product. These methods work best in a group setting, for small teams.
The course will include:

  • A numerical way to represent the value generated by a brainstorming session
  • Identifying a common baseline for a project, by establishing a unified purpose and forming alignment.
  • 43 minutes on-demand video
  • 1 downloadable resource
  • Assignments / Activities included

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A User Experience Approach to
Agile and Scrum

This course will explore concepts for taking a user experience approach to working within an agile team or scrum team. At the end of this course, you will have a foundational / introductory understanding of the intersection between business, agile, and user experience, to give you a jump start to working collaboratively within an agile or scrum team.
The course will include:

  • An introduction to agile and scrum
  • The players and roles for a scrum team
  • The overall life-cycle of the scrum methodology

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Course Testimonials

I've learned great techniques I can use in my job to better brainstorming of UX for our products.

~ Josh S.

This course is essential for anyone who wants to develop a great user experience for their product or service.

~ Brandon B.

Valuable information, clear explanations, engaging delivery, helpful practice activities, and accurate course description.

~ Rama

Knowledgeable instructor

~ Masudul B.

Instructor

Frank Garofalo

Frank Garofalo, M.S. CGT

Our Principal Consultant, Frank Garofalo, has worked in the web and interactive industry since 1999. Over the years, he has had employment experience with various companies, such as Esri, The Walt Disney Company, Bank of America, Cyber View, and Garmin.

Through his employment background, Frank has been involved with design and user experience efforts on projects for Fortune 50 companies, US Federal agencies, and with budgets of over $12 million.

Frank has managed a 35+ person department of User Experience Architects, User Interface Designers, Icon Designers, and Usability Research experts, at a billion-dollar software company. He started the user experience cross-company team at Esri (a world-wide leader in geographic information systems).

He has hosted and facilitated similiar design-centric seminars and workshops since 2011.

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