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Visual Design—UX Fast Track


So you want your team to learn more about visual design?
Your organization can get lifetime access to ANY or ALL 4 UIE Virtual Seminars on this very topic.


It’s hard, when looking at a web page, to know that something just isn’t right, but not know what to do. Is it the color? Is it the layout? Maybe the fonts aren’t working? How do we get the visual look to match our great ideas?

Good visual design isn’t rocket science. It isn’t black magic. Like many things, good visual design is made of skills that anyone can learn. And, with practice, you can become good at spotting, fixing, and creating your own high-quality pages.

We put together 4 of our recorded virtual seminars with a focus on visual design. These seminars are a valuable resource if you're just starting out in web design and a great refresher for seasoned designers. The seminars are set up for you to watch whenever you like, wherever you like, as often as you like. Share those your purchase with everyone in your organization. Want to purchase all 4 together for just $429? You'll get lifetime access for your organization to any you purchase!

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So you want to learn more about Visual Design

In this UX Fast Track You’ll Find:

Essentials of Effective Visual Design

In Essentials of Effective Visual Design, Patrick Hofmann will help you make your products easier to use by applying surprising, memorable design techniques. Patrick, an expert in visual instruction and wordless communication, has worked with usability professionals like you to improve the design of digital, online, and hard copy information.

Effective Use of Icons & Images

How can you design and implement icons and images for maximum impact? How do you build them? When should they be used? What characteristics lead to an effective use of icons and images? How do you know you've done a good job? Effective Use of Icons & Images will address Patrick Hofmann's most recent usability research and visual design projects to answer these questions.

Visual Design Essentials for Non-Designers

We've all been thrown into situations where we have no idea how or where to begin. For anyone responsible for their site's design, or even those who want to make a difference but don't know how, the process can be daunting. Even the term "web design" implies knowledge and understanding of something visual, creative, even artistic ability.

Visual Design for Web Applications

Web applications live in this strange world, half application, half web site. Something as simple as making a command look like a command, becomes difficult quickly. Do you make it a button? Should it be a link? In Visual Design for Web Applications, David Rivers discusses a number of considerations for creating or updating your application’s visual design. He’ll show you how to make it successful and delightful.

Want to purchase all 4 together for just $429? You'll get lifetime access for your organization


Why A UX Fast Track?

You may already be familiar with our continually growing UIE User Experience Training Library. Since 2006, the UIE Virtual Seminars—User Interface Engineering's series of online seminars—have brought top talent to you, to teach you the field's latest skills and best practices. In the comfort of your office, you and your team get to hear perspectives and insights of thought leaders from the world of user experience design.

The UX Fast Track is an easy way for you to focus on improving or refreshing the skills UX designers use. We're grouping recorded seminars of specific experience design-related topics for you in a curriculum-style format. With each seminar you choose to purchase, you'll get lifetime access. Anyone in your organization can access them whenever they like, as often as they like.

There are over 50 recorded seminars to choose from, covering topics from user research practices, design process and strategy, information architecture and visual design.


In our UX Fast Tracks, we're grouping seminars for you in a curriculum-style format.

Each seminar will provide your team with countless takeaways to immediately make their visual design better. Buy them all and you're providing your team lifetime access to a package of some of the most current thinking about visual design.

The UIE Virtual Seminars I’ve viewed have been great. Accessible format, informal delivery and excellent content. I’ve always liked UIE’s approach to and delivery of user experience research.

Glenn S.

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