Bentley University User Experience Center

11/04/2025

Register to secure your spot!

https://www.bentley.edu/centers/ux-education/ux-certificate

02/24/2025

UX 922 Usability Research with Dan Berlin
March 13-14, 2025
Learn from the best! During Dan's 13+ year UX career, Dan has lived the agency life and spent 10 of those years building research teams and practices.

The Usability Research course is the keystone research method in user experience research. Whether we are evaluating a digital product, a physical device, or even a real-world experience, observing people’s behaviors while they interact with something is the gold standard of research. This course will take you through the usability study timeline and convey best practices for each step along the way to ensure your research attains goals and has actionable outcomes.

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Enhance your UX skills with Bentley's UX certificate program. Join a global network of UX professionals today! Built on a solid foundation in human factors, usability engineering and project management, our UX certificate helps participants improve the performance of their product designs while...

02/03/2025

Experience Design Fundamentals: March 6-7, 2025
Bill Hartman will be teaching this course through the UX Certificate Program at Bentley University. He is an expert in the translation of user and channel inputs into design requirements to best support business goals. Students can attend in-person OR on-line.

The class will examine design stages and techniques through real-world examples and hands-on prototype development. User experience concepts will be visualized in the form of paper prototypes as teams explore the relationship between content types, navigational metaphors, and creating a branded experience.

Register early to secure your spot: https://www.bentley.edu/centers/ux-education/ux-certificate

01/22/2025

Join James McElroy for The Business of Experience Design course On January 30-31, 2025. This course distills decades of best practices, principles, and real-world experience into a highly interactive two-day format applicable to design organizations ranging in size from a single designer in a startup to leaders of teams of hundreds of designers in Fortune 500 organizations. Student can attend in-person OR on-line from 9a-5p (EST).

Register now to secure your spot:

Enhance your UX skills with Bentley's UX certificate program. Join a global network of UX professionals today! Built on a solid foundation in human factors, usability engineering and project management, our UX certificate helps participants improve the performance of their product designs while...

01/09/2025

Experience Design Career Visioning and Strategy

UX 974 with Janelle Estes

Over the four half days, this course will set you up for success, help define your goals and enhance your skills required for a career as a user researcher, designer, and leader in the experience design field.

Register early to secure your spot: https://www.bentley.edu/centers/ux-education/ux-certificate

11/19/2024

QUALITATIVE RESEARCH METHODS WITH DEMETRIOS KARIS:
DECEMBER 5-6, 2024
This course covers several types of user research methods, including both qualitative and quantitative techniques. User Research Methods complement lab and online studies and are an essential part of a user researcher’s toolkit. Through lectures, case studies, class exercises, and group discussions, we will explore commercial ethnography, interviewing, diary studies, survey design, focus groups, and the development of personas.

Key Outcomes
Conduct an ethnographic interview in class after learning about interviewing techniques (both semi-structured and ethnographic interviewing).
Learn how to create an observation guide for a home or ethnographic study.

Register to secure your spot: https://www.bentley.edu/centers/ux-education/all-courses

10/23/2024

Experience Design Fundamentals with Bill Hartman, November 7-8, 2024
In this class, Bill will explore the propagation of user requirements into design solutions. He will examine design stages and techniques through real-world examples and hands-on prototype development.

Space is limited, secure your spot: https://www.bentley.edu/centers/ux-education/ux-certificate

09/17/2024

Dr. Bill Gribbons is teaching Human Factors & Experience Design next week, September 26-27, 2024. This course introduces you to the applied theories relevant to the design of information products, systems, user interface designs and the larger user experience. It is particularly relevant to those working with critical applications, diverse user populations, and new technologies.

Register: https://www.bentley.edu/centers/ux-education/all-courses

08/28/2024

If you are ready to start your UX journey or take your UX career to the next level, visit Bentley University's UX Certificate Program site. The Fall 2024 schedule includes exciting new courses and changes to the program for real-world application. Register early to secure your spot.

Enhance your UX skills with Bentley's UX certificate program. Join a global network of UX professionals today! Built on a solid foundation in human factors, usability engineering and project management, our UX certificate helps participants improve the performance of their product designs while...

05/08/2024

Last class for the Spring 2024 semester with the UX Certificate Program. Register now for Prototyping the User Experience:

https://www.bentley.edu/centers/ux-education/ux-certificate

Course introduction:
Prototyping is a key part of the design process. A prototype can be used to sell ideas to get funding, align teams with a shared vision, test and refine product experience, and provide the development team with exact specifications. In this course, you will learn the Design Thinking process and essential design principles to apply in your experience designs as well as gaining hands-on experience in creating prototypes using paper and web-based applications (Balsamiq and Figma) by working on a realistic sample project step by step. This course will also introduce how to prototype GenAI related user experience and how to leverage GenAI tools during the design process. At the end of the course, you will work on a design challenge to apply what you have learned from the class in practice for the course project, which could add to your design portfolio.

Enhance your UX skills with Bentley's UX certificate program. Join a global network of UX professionals today! Built on a solid foundation in human factors, usability engineering and project management, our UX certificate helps participants improve the performance of their product designs while...

03/25/2024

Digital experiences are about creating a conversation with users. Conversations consist of words, tone, even gestures. In this course Sarah Johnson, will walk you through the steps for putting content strategy first in everything you design.

Anyone interested in user experience or content strategy, content design, or UX writing, as well as the content curious, should register.

https://www.bentley.edu/centers/ux-education/ux-certificate

03/25/2024

Let's celebrate 25 years of HFID Alumni memories together!