GUI Interaction Design Training
Interaction Design fits in the middle stages of user experience design and deals with the navigation and detailed widget, controls behaviour for information, functionality on web sites, intranets, mobile apps and software.
Course Fees and Registration
Our UX training rate is $595 per day, per person. We also provide a User Experience Certification program that starts at $2595 per person.
TorontoAug 29, 2013
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Ottawa Sep 26, 2013
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VancouverMay 16, 2013
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What You Will Learn
In this course, participants will acquire up-to-date knowledge and skills to:
- Interaction Design Principles
- Interaction Design Methodologies
- Building ID principles into the design processes of your organization
Hands-on exercises will be used throughout the course.
Interaction Design Training Outline
Introduction
- What is Interaction design?
- Origins of Interaction Design
- When would you apply interaction design?
- What skills are required to do interaction design?
Interaction Design & Principles
- User Requirements for Interaction design
- Identifying User Experience and Usability goals
- UX Architectures
- Controls, Widgets & Workflows
- UX/UI Design Patterns
- Specifications, Standards and Guidelines
Interaction Design Process
- Hierarchical Task Analysis
- Exploring alternative designs
- Prototyping the interaction
- Design iterations and refinements
- Interaction design evaluation
- Planning Interaction design in the product development workflow
Summary and Akendi's best practices.
Duration
1 day, 9:00am – 4:30pm full day session with a one-hour lunch break.
Who should attend
We assume little awareness of interaction design. The course is appropriate for anyone responsible for web apps - ria, intranets, websites, GUI development, content management, information management and the user experience of a product.
Who participated in our courses
Autodesk, Microsoft, Foresters, Ecobee, Rogers, Sage, WorkSafeBC, Ontario Securities Commission, Industry Canada, Ryerson University, Human Resources & Skills Development Canada, Service Canada, Canada Post, Export Development Canada, Conference Board of Canada, and others.
Course Fees and Registration
Our UX training rate is $595 per day, per person. We also provide a User Experience Certification program that starts at $2595 per person.
Cancellation Policy
Training cost is per person as stated with a minimum 4 participants per course. Akendi reserves the right to cancel a scheduled training session up to 5 business days prior to the training if a minimum class size of 4 participants has not been attained. Akendi is not responsible for any travel or other costs incurred as result of a cancellation.
Cancellation fee is 15% if you cancel more than 4 weeks prior to training start date. We provide a 50% refund between 4 and 2 weeks before a course. No refunds when cancelling within 2 weeks of course start date.
Instructors
Dominira Saul believes that behind every well-designed product or service there is a thorough understanding of the actual users and their needs.
Having presented many influential research and design outcomes to clients at all levels of the private and public sector Dominira is very adept at putting his belief into practice. Dominira remains focused on ensuring clear transfer of design recommendations and most 
importantly, rationale to our clients. Dominira is committed to working closely with Akendi clients to ensure their success.
Dominira is a fluently bilingual communicator who has lectured at the university level, and delivered many usability training courses.
Dominira has an MSc. in User Interface Design from London Guildhall University, a BA in Psychology from Carleton University and over 11 years of usability research and interaction design experience in the UK and Canada.
Let's Talk!
Please email Shaun Illingworth at training@akendi.com or 1.866.585.1660 x0 for questions and more information about our corporate User Experience Training courses & UX Certification program.
