Good UX starts with understanding what it actually is. User experience design is the practice of making products that are useful, usable and pleasant, and it is much more than making screens look nice. This module explains what UX covers and walks through the design process from discovery to delivery, so you can see where every later skill in the course fits.
You'll then learn the ideas that guide almost every design decision: Jakob Nielsen's usability heuristics, the Gestalt principles that explain how people group what they see, and the psychology of design, including cognitive load and how people decide.
Treat the videos as a foundation to return to as you work through the course. When you're done, continue on to User Research.
How an idea becomes a finished digital product: the user-centered design process, step by step.
Jakob Nielsen's 10 usability heuristics, illustrated with examples from products people use every day.
How the Gestalt principles of visual perception make people see interface elements as grouped or separate, and how to use that in layouts.
A practical overview by Jon Yablonski of the psychology behind good design, from how people decide to how much they can take in at once.