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Attention New Yorkers: today, it’s all about the user. Get the skills to translate user wants and needs into intuitive digital experiences that power revenue, loyalty, and product success. Our NYC user experience design course gives you the confidence to tackle complex UX design challenges.
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Our NYC learners have options. Choose a 10-week, part-time evening format or a one-week, full-time accelerated course. No matter the course you choose, you’ll get best-in-class live learning and expert-led practice.
The future of design is all about user experience. And user experience design skills aren’t just useful to designers. UX skills are a powerful complement to backgrounds in visual design, marketing, product, engineering, business strategy, and more.
The present and future of design is focused on user experience. UX/UI roles are predicted to grow 164% above the national average over the next 10 years, and employers rate UX/UI as the #1 most in-demand product design title.
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Total cost of course: $4,500.
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“I made some really great connections and learned so much from GA. It's the extra push I needed to get into UX/UI over traditional visual design. I'm ecstatic to have a credible portfolio piece molded by feedback from my peers and teachers. My instructor even helped me negotiate a new contract as a UI designer.”
GA grad, UX Design Short Course
Great user experiences offer a competitive advantage for any company. They help keep customers loyal and turn them into a brand’s biggest advocates. Plus, they drive product adoption and bottom-line growth. According to a report by InVision, 92% of mature design organizations can draw a straight line from the efforts of their design team to their company’s revenue.
For NYC-based professionals interested in UX and design thinking, this means that gaining new user experience design skills can make you an indispensable team member and expand your career opportunities — in New York City and beyond — whether you’re a designer or in a design-adjacent role like marketing, product, engineering, operations, and more. Just check out the numbers: the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that overall employment of web developers and digital designers is projected to grow 16% from 2022 to 2032, much faster than the average for all occupations. And CompTIA predicts UX/UI roles will grow 164% above the national average over the next 10 years.
User experience design skills are a powerful extension to a professional background in marketing, product, engineering, interaction design, business strategy, and more. You’ll find a diverse range of NYC-based students in the classroom, including:
Ultimately, this NYC UX design program attracts a community of eager NYC-based learners who are passionate about crafting delightful, user-centric products and campaigns.
This is a beginner-friendly NYC UX design program with no prerequisites, although many students are familiar with graphic and digital design concepts. Whether you’re new to the UX design field or you’re looking to formalize your practice, our curriculum helps you gain fluency in end-to-end UX processes, tools, and documentation and put them to work for you, your company, and your career.
Our Admissions team can discuss your background and learning goals to advise if this NYC UX Design Short Course is a good fit for you.
Here are just some of the benefits you can expect as a GA NYC student:
For your final project, you’ll work on a real-world UX design problem, applying all the concepts and tools learned in the NYC UX design course to a product of your choice. You’ll get hands-on practice with each step in the UX process and create professional standard documentation spanning personas, information architecture, user flows, wireframes, and more. You’ll also deliver a final presentation, which can serve as a case study for stakeholders, future employers, and your portfolio.
We encourage you to tackle a user experience design challenge that’s related to your work or a passion project you’ve been meaning to carve out time for.
Throughout the NYC UX course, you’ll also complete a number of smaller projects designed to reinforce what you’ve learned in each unit.
Our Admissions team is here to help and can advise whether this NYC UX Design Short Course is right for you and your learning goals. You can also:
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