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Online Short Course

User Experience Design

Advance your career with our 10-week User-Experience Design online course. Get an industry-respected certificate and the practical skills and know-how to design a unique user experience. Learn the principles behind how your users think, behave, and engage, and get the practical knowledge to apply this, to design positive user interactions for your brand.

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Course Curriculum

  • Explain what UX means, and identify good and bad examples of it in the real world and online
  • Justify why UX is important to any business and project
  • Grasp the fundamental principles of good UX design
  • Explain where UX fits into the lifecycle of a project – in other words when it should be planned and implemented
  • Define and distinguish the various roles that form part of the UX industry

The important bits

Key Info

  • Course Duration: 10 Weeks
  • Accreditation:
  • Access: Online
  • Start Date: 4 August 2025
  • Cost: R13500.00

What you'll learn

  • Understand why designing with the user in mind is so critical
  • Craft user-friendly websites that delight, rather than frustrate
  • Integrate UX into everything you do online and create digital experiences that make customers react positively to your brand
  • Design interactions that will lead to higher affinity and conversions
  • Understand aspects of human-computer interaction.
  • Understand how functionality needs to adapt across devices and channels to ensure optimal user satisfaction
Be in Demand

Get to the top with a skillset that’s highly practical and in demand across high-paying industries.

Think Outside The Box

This course is ideal for people who want to bring not only technical skills to their marketing, but creative flair too.

Learn From Industry Experts

Our lecturers and course convenors have industry experience and know what companies look for when hiring for UX positions.

Elevate Your Career

Be recognised with an industry centric Red & Yellow certificate, giving you a blend of theoretical knowledge and hands-on skills.

Red & Yellow courses are made to future-proof your career

Our courses are designed to accelerate opportunities and give a boost to your CV. Top businesses across industries recognise Red & Yellow graduates as having the practical skills and the theoretical background to hit the ground running with confidence and creative flair.

Benefits:

Our courses are both current and relevant to the South African context.

Applicable, practical assignments:

  • So that you can apply what you’re learning to your everyday work life, and your specific business challenges.

Discussion Forums and Chat sessions:

  • Helping you develop your professional network.
  • Hosted by your coach, lecturer, or subject specialist.
  • Ideal opportunities to discuss the content and get answers to all your questions.

Personalized feedback:

  • Tailored to your individual strengths, and opportunities for personal improvement.

A dedicated team:

  • Acting as your “virtual” support crew whose only focus is to help get you over the finish line.

Included in your course:

  • An industry-sought-after Certificate of Completion from Red & Yellow
  • Original, relevant, and constantly updated content
  • An interactive online learning experience that includes videos, live chat sessions, forum discussions, and more
  • A team of course coordinators to assist you and Instructional Designers and subject matter experts to guide and teach

This course is perfect for:

  • Digital marketers
  • Aspiring/current web developers/designers
  • Content managers
  • Marketing strategists
  • UX practitioners
  • Anyone seeking UX skills to improve customer experience
  • Anyone fascinated with the discipline of UX design
  • If you’re involved in, or developing, an eCommerce business

Meet your team:

This course was created by, and benefits from, our full-time lecturers’ years of experience in the field – both in lecturing and in industry. They know how to nurture talent and bring out the best in students, resulting in many award wins over the years.

David Robertson

David Robertson

Tutor

  • 4-time Loerie award winner and experienced industrial designer

  • Applies Design Thinking, leads creative teams, and gamified inhalers

  • Founder of Compass Crew, serves clients like Tiger Bands, Danone, Impulse Biomedical, and shares

  • expertise in Red and Yellow’s online workshops

Where Commercial Logic meets Creative Magic

Creative thinking is still the most powerful skill of the future, but only if it’s paired with commercial savvy and the ability to adapt. That’s why we equip future thinkers, doers, and makers with the real-world, future-proof skills they need to thrive. Whether you're climbing the ladder or building something of your own, we’ll help you learn how business works – and how to make it work for you.

Brands we work with

ABSA
PRIMEDIA
MTN
Company 4
TFG

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