UX Designer in Training

Most of what you need to learn for UX isn't on Treehouse.

Some organizations want hybrid UXers, the skills of UX meeting the skills of a web designer (or simply think that UX is UI).

Instead of rapid prototyping instead they want to "prototype in code" for that you need HTML, CSS, CSS Frameworks and probably JavaScript as well. Wireframes and mockups are bread and butter of a UX, some organizations don't want to use a tradition purpose-built tool for that instead they use Photoshop or Illustrator.

Treehouse has courses for all of those things under the Web Design track.

To fill in the traditional UX skills someone asked a similar question just yesterday, so I'll paste it in here ...

There's a lot of confusion about what exactly UX is and what a UX pro does day to day.

So I'd start with this these online courses

• Intro to the Design of Everyday Things from the eminent Don Norman
• User Experience for the Web
• Human-Computer Interaction (Traditional HCI has a lot of overlap with UX)

In addition to knowledge required there are also "deliverables"

• Lynda.com has a User Experience section check out the courses labeled "UX Design Tools" and "UX Design Techniques"
• https://hackdesign.org/lessons

Besides those courses most of UX is reading books:

• The Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition
• Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability
• Information Architecture for the World Wide Web: Designing Large-Scale Web Sites
• The Elements of User Experience: User-Centered Design for the Web

For some perspective about starting out in a career check out how to break into user experience design

Well, if you're doing UX for the web I would recommend the Web Design track. Try to dabble in the design library also. After you clear the Web Design Track try the Front-End Development track to keep your momentum up and gain helpful knowledge.

David gave you some good advice! The one thing I would add is to learn to wireframes. There is a bit of wireframing in This Track.

I have worked with a lot of app designers and they make sure everything is thought out and written down in their wireframes.

Just start slow and work your way to bigger things.

Good luck!

BTW there's a UX course coming to treehouse on April 14