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January 16, 2025
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The Program

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About the Program

Step into the world of User Experience (UX) and User Interface (UI) design through our comprehensive UX/UI Professional Diploma. This program is built on the solid foundation of ‘human centric design' principles, offering skill-focused training that spans from in-depth user research to the crafting of sitemaps and wireframes.

Benefit from an engaging program that combines self-paced online modules with interactive live sessions led by regional industry experts. Join us today!

New to Design? No Problem!

Our introduction to design course is your perfect entry point into this field. No prior design experience required – just bring your curiosity and enthusiasm, and we'll set you on the path to an exciting journey.

Unique Benefits Tailored to Your Needs!

Learn UX/UI even if you don't have design experience.
Design intuitive human-centered experiences.
Get certified in less than a year.
Benefit from Arabic speaking instructors.
Become an expert in regionally relevant UX/UI designs (Right-to-left interface such as Arabic).
Join the first regional academic UX/UI program.

Who Is This Program For?

You are
  • A professional working in tech and design agencies
  • A graphic/UI designer or instructional designer looking to enhance your expertise.
  • An entrepreneur aiming to transform your concept(s) into concrete prototypes for investor presentations.
  • A young professional seeking to gain a new highly in-demand skill.
You have

What Skills Will You Gain?

Learn about user-centered design principles, personas, and user journey mapping.
Engage in hands-on projects and real-life case studies from various industries.
Design visually appealing and user-friendly interfaces.
Design both left-to-right (English) and right-to-left (Arabic) interfaces to meet regional needs.
Use industry-standard design software like Adobe XD, Sketch, or Figma.
Master the art of bringing your ideas to life, creating tangible prototypes.

Curriculum

Course Details

Creating intuitive visual designs, user interfaces (UI), and design elements is essential to emphasize the utility of any product, integrate and evoke users’ motions when interacting with or using the product and its interface. This online course aims to prepare beginners and non-designers to have a critical eye while exploring design theories, tools, and practices. This online course aims to prepare beginners and non-designers to develop a critical eye while exploring design theories, tools, and practices. It brings a design-centric approach to products and teaches the principles of designs from the perspective of a non-designer looking to enhance their skills’ set and collaborate on interactive projects. The course outlines the main principles of design, demonstrates the stages of designs, teaches the best design practices, and provides insights on how to start understanding design through the lenses of designers.

The ever-changing nature of today's organizations and the evolving needs of individuals in response to 21st-century complex challenges call for innovative and human-centered problem-solving approaches. This online course is tailored to support aspiring entrepreneurs and professionals interested in exploring innovation practices within organizations. The course is carefully crafted to provide students with human-centered design research methods and creative problem-solving tools. Its primary goal is to enhance participants' capacity to frame stakeholders' needs, identify opportunities for organizational change, and ultimately generate innovative and viable solutions to address these challenges.

Methodologies and UX Processes:
this course introduces students to the fundamentals of User Experience (UX) design and the processes involved in designing interactive products. It covers the principles, methodologies, and processes of UX design, teaching students to apply human-centered design and design thinking methods to create effective user experiences using empathy at the core. Starting with research, learners engage in heuristic analysis, develop information architecture, generate sitemaps, conduct card-sorting, create personas, map user journeys, draft use cases and scenarios, identify user flows, and delve into wireframing and low-fidelity prototyping.

Web & mobile user experience design: this course empowers students to design user-focused interfaces in a professional format. It covers the core principles and distinctions in designing for web versus designing for mobile. Students learn to identify, focus, and improve interaction design, information architecture, usability, and user journeys. Leveraging an iterative process rooted in human behavior, psychology, mental models, and cognitive science, they acquire the skills to design purposeful and context-aware interfaces.

Designing intuitive user interfaces for web & mobile: in this course, students delve into the essentials and industry standards of user interface design (UI). It emphasizes the pivotal role of UI and provides an overview of its fundamental theories and concepts. The course facilitates the discovery of UI elements and components, along with the main tools and techniques used. Students gain proficiency in methods for analyzing, critiquing, designing, and tailoring user interface solutions for both web and mobile applications as well as heuristic evaluation to reflect and measure business, users, and usability goals.

Conducting usability testing and optimization: This course tackles usability testing and optimization as methods to evaluate and enhance the user experience. With a focus on achieving ease of use, efficiency, effectiveness, and user satisfaction, students learn how to plan, test, and optimize the usability testing for the interface or product at hand. They closely examine all features, interactive components, and visual elements with a representative group of the target audience. They learn the process of determining, analyzing, reporting, and ultimately ensuring an optimal user experience, ensuring that the target users can effortlessly and intuitively engage with the user interfaces.

In this course, students learn the intricacies of UX management and the specific strategies essential for effective project management. Beyond design thinking, they explore how UX strategy influences businesses and explore various methodologies within product development, user experience functions, and organizational models. They learn how to use acquired principles and concepts such as visibility, desirability, findability, constraints, mental models, mapping, and feedback, as effective strategies within organizations and/or projects processes.

Flexible Tuition Fees

Select the payment method that suits you best!
Pay for the courses you register each term.
Base price per course: $600
Pay in full and benefit from a 10% reduction on tuition fees.
Total program tuition: $3,600 or $3,900*
(*for learners that need to take the prerequisite course)
Corporate tuition rates are available, contact us for more information.
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Choose Your Ideal Study Plan!

9 months – full-time study plan
Ideal for ambitious individuals with a strong determination to complete their studies, recommended for those who have no other commitments, allowing them to focus wholeheartedly on their educational goals.
1 year+ – part-time study plan
Created for working individuals, this part-time study plan provides the balance needed between pursuing your studies and managing your professional commitments, by taking only one course per semester.
Next Start Date

January 16, 2025

Join our upcoming UX/UI online diploma, and elevate your design skills!
Deadline to apply is January 2, 2025! Hurry!

Non-designers can take the prerequisite course at their own pace throughout the year. If you are planning to join the Spring 2024-25 cohort starting on January 2, 2025 then you will need to complete the prerequisite 2 weeks before the semester begins.

Need more information?
Want to learn more about the UX/UI program? Interested in a personalized 1-on-1 session with our enrollment coaches? Schedule a session today!

Instructors

Maher Berro

Interaction designer
Expert in UX, UI, and human centered design

Lara Chikhani

Design & Product Management Lead
Expert in experience design and strategy

Tarek El Khatib

Associate Experience Designer at epam, a big tech company.
Design expert with over 15 years of experience in UX

Sabah Haider

User Experience Research Lead
Expert in Human Centered Product Development and Design Thinking

Romy Saber

Chief marketing officer at Suyool, a fintech
Expert in user centered design & technology

Dana Al Batlouni

Director of the Interdisciplinary Design Practice Program (IDPP)
Expert in user experience research and human centered design

Maher Berro

Interaction designer
Expert in UX, UI, and human centered design

Lara Chikhani

Design & Product Management Lead
Expert in experience design and strategy

Tarek El Khatib

Associate Experience Designer at epam, a big tech company.
Design expert with over 15 years of experience in UX

Sabah Haider

User Experience Research Lead
Expert in Human Centered Product Development and Design Thinking

Romy Saber

Chief marketing officer at Suyool, a fintech
Expert in user centered design & technology

Contact Us

+961 70 013 835
uxuionline@aub.edu.lb

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