Free course, six lessons, about one week
From UI to UX: Your 1-Week Foundation Course
For UI designers who make good-looking screens and want to understand why some of them still fail.
Start lesson 1Why This Course Exists
I’ve taught hundreds of designers how to transition from UI to UX over the past 10+ years.
Here’s what I’ve learned: UX isn’t something you master in 3 or 6 months. It’s an ongoing process that spans years.
But most UI designers need clarity before they dive deeper. They need to understand what UX really is, why it matters, and where to start.
This course gives you exactly that: strong UX foundations so you can continue your learning journey with confidence and direction.
No false promises. No shortcuts. Just honest, practical knowledge that will change how you think about design.
What This Course ISN’T:
- ✗ A complete UX certification (you’ll have foundations, not mastery)
- ✗ Tool-specific training (we focus on thinking, not software)
- ✗ A “get a UX job in 7 days” promise (career transitions take time)
- ✗ Everything about UX (that takes years—this gives you clarity to start)
What This Course IS:
- ✓ Your launchpad into UX thinking
- ✓ Clear understanding of what UX actually involves
- ✓ Practical frameworks you’ll use for years
- ✓ Honest guidance on what to learn next
- ✓ The clarity you need before diving deeper
The six lessons
Read them in order. Each takes ten to fifteen minutes.
- 1 UI vs UX: Why Pretty Screens Don’t Guarantee Happy Users Why a clean, well-animated interface can still fail its users. What UI design covers, what UX design actually encompasses, and the expensive lesson a food delivery app taught me.
- 2 The UX Designer’s Mindset: Thinking Beyond Pixels The shift from decorating screens to solving problems. How UX designers think about users, context, and outcomes, and the moment I realised my beautiful interface was answering the wrong question.
- 3 Why Assumptions Kill Products Every designer fills gaps with assumptions. This lesson shows how those assumptions quietly kill products, how to spot them, and the research habits that replace guessing with evidence.
- 4 Creating Your First User Persona The Right Way Most personas are fiction dressed up as research. Learn how to build a persona from real behaviour, goals, and frustrations so it actually changes design decisions.
- 5 Customer Journey Mapping: Seeing the Complete Experience Customer journey mapping explained step by step: stages, actions, thoughts, emotions, and pain points, so you can see the complete experience instead of a single screen.
- 6 Data-Driven Customer Journey: Backing Decisions with Evidence How to back a journey map with analytics, support tickets, and research data. Turn opinions into evidence and make design decisions your stakeholders can trust.
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