Web design courses in Kiev (UI UX design) ☑️ DAN.IT

Course description

Duration

250 hours
6 months

For 5 months you will go from the fundamentals of graphic editors to the ability to hear the client and create effective design solutions. Minimum of cold theory. A focus will be placed on the practical solution of real problems.

On the course, we will learn to understand the customer, explore his business, offer a creative way to solve problems, develop a design. We will work with different platforms and tools, learn to see the possibilities, think broadly, throw ideas on paper, prototype, communicate with programmers, invent many solutions and choose the best from it, create beautiful and well-designed layouts, present your solution to real clients. And, of course, we will supplement your portfolio with 4 projects.

We teach not detail but principles of design. You will learn to answer the question “Why is it necessary for the client” and “Why is this so?”

For whom

beginners in the field of design, who is older than 16 years

to all who aim to simplify the interaction of man and system to well understandable actions

graphic designers who decided to engage in the field of web design

Course instructors

Anton Leschenko

Lead UX Designer UX Architect at Luxoft

Denis Sergienko

Founder at sA.design

Dmytro Synegin

Senior Product Designer at iDeals Solutions

Alina Madey

Senior UI/UX designer at AITHEON-platform

Mikhail Samovarov

Co-founder and Art-director at LEAGUE, Design Agency

Vadym Silyava

BA / UX Lead at Trinetix

Svetlana Lubnina

UI/UX Design Team Lead at Semalt

What will you be able to

Understand the principles of design in the technical (composition, color theory and fonts) and psychological (gestalt principles, the psychology of human perception of the site) ways

Understand business tasks, manage the basics of business analysis and speak with the client in one language

See both competent and unsuccessful designs, and to explain reasonably what is wrong with the last ones

Find ideas and offer concepts for design solutions

Create a design for landing pages, admin panels and mobile applications

Work in Figma, Tilda, Webflow, Whimsical, After Effects, Adobe XD

Program

Preparation for the beginning

Immediately after passing the interview and enrollment, the student starts preparing for studies. As a first homework assignment, the student receives literature and links to video lessons, with which he will be acquainted before the start of the course.

Module 1. Promo-site

Let’s start to get acquainted with the Design Process, go through all its stages. Starting with the Business Interview, and ending with the presentation of the prototype to the client. In the process of working on the project, we will also analyze the principles of user experience design, try to understand the user, his interaction with the interface and create a comfortable product based on this. In this module we will go through the basic basics of visual design: building a composition, working with color and grid, typography. At the end of the module, we will assemble our work into a clickable prototype, prepare presentation materials, and defend our work in front of the client.

Module 2. Mobile application

The second project will be a mobile application. Let’s deal with the iOS & Android guidelines. Let’s find out what is the difference in user experience on different devices. We will learn how to connect users to your product using gamification. We will also touch on the topic of animation of interaction with the interface. We finish the module by preparing layouts for release in app stores as well as a familiar demo for the client.

Module 3. Admin Panel

In the third module, we will work on a large Enterprise product with several types of users and different tasks for each of them. The module begins with more advanced UX techniques, then we will analyze the psychology of human perception. We will conduct the first user interviews to better understand the problem, learn how to process survey results and draw high-quality conclusions based on them. We will also learn how to work in design teams and divide tasks. Working on this project, we will deal with tables, calendars, forms and other elements of high-load systems. At the end of the module, we will study the product design metrics on the basis of which we can evaluate our work.

Module 4. Product design

The last module will be devoted to your thesis on one of the proposed socially significant topics. During this project, we will learn how to conduct Design Sessions and Brainstorms and Design Hackathons.

Pro Tips and Career Consulting

The final part of the training will be based on pro design elements: animation, pro-techniques, designing in multi-discipline teams, HTML basics, etc. Particular attention will be paid to the creation of a portfolio, the presentation of your ideas and projects, Business English and advices from a career specialist. Students will create a third project for a real customer.

Workshops and master-classes

In parallel with the main training, students will be able to attend master classes and workshops with invited speakers, as well as in non-academic times use our space to work on their projects.