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Fate of UX Foundations

Hello all!

I was wondering what will happen to the UX Foundations course now that Allison has left? Will we get the finished content?

9 Answers

Nick Pettit
STAFF
Nick Pettit
Treehouse Teacher

Hey everyone,

First, Allison did a great job during her time at Treehouse and we'll miss her a lot!

Second, we're likely going to retire the two stages of UX Foundations that have been released and replace it later this year. Let me explain...

We're transitioning to full-project releases. This also means that we're pushing for higher quality on many elements of content production, both on-camera and behind-the-scenes. We're close to a final decision on UX Foundations, but I think we're going to have to retire the content that's present and rebuild the course to meet our newer standards of quality. This hasn't been an easy thing to decide and I know that's frustrating news to hear, but rest assured, the new UX Foundations will be worth the wait and will be a much better course overall. We have big plans!

If you have any questions about this, feel free to reply to this thread. We're still in the process of figuring this out, so I don't have all the answers yet, but I'd be happy to address any concerns.

I hope she hasn't left... I could swear she does the voice for Mike... I don't mean anything by it, other than:

if($Allison->IsTalkingInMuppetVoice)
{
    $SheCouldSoundLikeMike = true;
}

Hate to break it to ya...but she left

My reaction to only hearing about this now and remembering only a few days ago I tweeted Allision about the status of the class on Twitter: Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

Maybe Nick Pettit can let us know of Treehouse's plans for UX Foundations

Thanks for the update Nick Pettit . I'm looking forward to the new release schedule. Starting a stage then waiting for the rest of the it was always one thing I never liked very much. Already having high quality content, I really can't wait to see what you guys do next.

Ally Hodges
Ally Hodges
3,949 Points

Hey!!

I just took the UX foundations and I'm sad to see it retire, but if there will be a better UX foundations, I'm all for it and I'm eager for it's release!

Keep up the great work.

Ally Hodges : You can trust in Treehouse delivering with the revised course. Awesome illustrations by the way...

Amsandra Johansson
Amsandra Johansson
20,395 Points

Are you considering doing a whole UX Design Track? I think that would be interesting.

Thank you for all the great content :)

Any update on the UX design course? Looks like its been over eight months since the idea was introduced.

Nick Pettit
Nick Pettit
Treehouse Teacher

Hi Mike Nicklas,

We've ultimately decided to create two courses that fill the same role. They are:

That said, we still may do a UX course in the future to answer any remaining areas of ambiguity.