Red & Yellow
Online Short Course
User Experience Design
Advance your career with our 10-week online User Experience (UX) Design course and gain the practical skills needed to create meaningful digital experiences that users love.
UX design is about understanding user needs, behaviours, and motivations to create products, services, and digital experiences that are intuitive, accessible, and effective. Throughout the course, you'll learn how to conduct user research, develop user personas, map customer journeys, create wireframes and prototypes, and evaluate user experiences through testing and feedback.
By combining user-centred thinking with practical design techniques, you'll gain the knowledge and confidence to design experiences that improve customer satisfaction, support business goals, and deliver lasting value.
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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: R&Y Certificate of Completion
- Access: Online
- Start Date: 3 August 2026
- Cost: R13,500
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.
Hannah Wilson
Design Lead @ Makers-Yard
Hannah Wilson is an experienced UX & product design leader with a blend of design, strategy & entrepreneurial insight. Over the past decade she has worked across investment banking global markets, online retail, consulting & innovation projects. Bringing a rare perspective to complex digital challenges.
She has led design thinking for large-scale applications from Johannesburg to London & beyond.
Her career reflects a commitment to tackling hard problems with talented teams solving for seamless experiences across tech we use everyday. She has also established her own company and loves sharing her story to help other entrepreneurs reach success by sharing her story.
Fascinated by emerging technologies & their impact on people & life as we know it. Hannah looks forward to sharing her knowledge & working closely with students to explore new ideas across Design, AI & Strategy.
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