Introduction to User Experience Design

A concise, academic introduction to UX

Offered by Georgia Institute of Technology, this beginner-level course exists to introduce the field of User Experience Design from the ground up, and has been taken by 503,474 learners.

Ground it covers

• User-centered design principles
• Requirements elicitation and requirements analysis
• Design research and UI/UX research methods
• Interaction design and usability testing
• Prototyping

Because it's a single course rather than a multi-course certificate, it's a faster way to sample UX before committing to a longer program — useful if you're a developer, product manager, or student trying to decide whether UX is worth pursuing further. The Georgia Tech framing tends toward a more systematic, requirements-driven view of design than looser "design thinking" content, which suits learners who like a structured, almost engineering-adjacent approach to a creative discipline.