UX Design Roadmap — Step-by-step Learning Path
User research, wireframing, prototyping and usability testing
The UX Design roadmap
- UX Design Foundations — beginner
- What Is UX Design? (vs UI, vs Product Design) — beginner
- The Double Diamond Design Process — beginner
- Human-Centered Design Principles — beginner
- Usability Heuristics (Nielsen's 10 Heuristics) — beginner
- Cognitive Load & Mental Models — beginner
- User Research Fundamentals — beginner
- Qualitative vs Quantitative Research — beginner
- Overview of User Research Methods — beginner
- Research Ethics & Informed Consent — beginner
- Writing a Research Plan — beginner
- Recruiting Participants — beginner
- Conducting User Research — intermediate
- User Interviews — intermediate
- Contextual Inquiry & Field Studies — intermediate
- Surveys & Questionnaires — intermediate
- Diary Studies — intermediate
- Competitive & Comparative Analysis — intermediate
- Analyzing Qualitative Data (Affinity Mapping) — intermediate
- User Understanding & Synthesis — intermediate
- Personas — intermediate
- Empathy Maps — intermediate
- Jobs to Be Done Framework — intermediate
- User Journey Mapping — intermediate
- Identifying Pain Points & Opportunities — intermediate
- Defining the Problem & Ideation — intermediate
- Problem Statements — intermediate
- How Might We Questions — intermediate
- Prioritization Frameworks (Impact/Effort, RICE) — intermediate
- Brainstorming Techniques & Crazy 8s — intermediate
- Storyboarding — intermediate
- Concept Evaluation & Feasibility — intermediate
- Information Architecture — intermediate
- Card Sorting — intermediate
- Site Maps & Navigation Structures — intermediate
- Content Hierarchy & Labeling — intermediate
- Tree Testing — intermediate
- Findability & Mental Models — intermediate
- Wireframing — intermediate
- Low-Fidelity Wireframing — intermediate
- Wireframing Tools (Figma/Balsamiq) — intermediate
- Wireframe Annotations — intermediate
- Responsive Wireframing — intermediate
- From Wireframes to Mid-Fidelity — intermediate
- Interaction Design — advanced
- Interaction Design Principles — advanced
- Affordances & Signifiers — advanced
- Feedback & System Status — advanced
- Error Prevention & Recovery — advanced
- Designing for Different Input Methods — advanced
- Prototyping — advanced
- Prototyping Fidelity Levels — advanced
- Clickable Prototypes in Figma — advanced
- Prototyping Tools Overview (ProtoPie, Axure) — advanced
- Testing Prototypes Internally — advanced
- Prototyping for Different Platforms — advanced
- Usability Testing — advanced
- Usability Testing Methods (Moderated vs Unmoderated) — advanced
- Writing a Usability Test Plan & Tasks — advanced
- Running a Usability Test Session — advanced
- Analyzing & Reporting Usability Findings — advanced
- Remote Testing Tools — advanced
- Guerrilla Testing — advanced
- UX Writing & Content Design — advanced
- Principles of UX Writing — advanced
- Microcopy for Buttons & Errors — advanced
- Voice & Tone Guidelines — advanced
- Content Strategy Basics — advanced
- Localization Considerations for UX Writing — advanced
- UX Metrics & Analytics — advanced
- UX Metrics Frameworks (HEART, AARRR) — advanced
- Analyzing Product Analytics for UX Insights — advanced
- Quantifying Usability (SUS, Task Success Rate) — advanced
- Combining Qualitative & Quantitative Data — advanced
- Reporting UX Impact to Stakeholders — advanced
- Service Design & UX Strategy — advanced
- Service Blueprints — advanced
- End-to-End Journey Mapping Across Touchpoints — advanced
- Aligning UX with Business Goals — advanced
- Working with Product Managers & Engineers — advanced
- Design Ops Basics — advanced
- Advocating for UX Within an Organization — advanced
- Portfolio & Career Readiness — advanced
- Building a UX Portfolio — advanced
- Writing UX Case Studies — advanced
- Presenting Your Research & Process — advanced
- Job Search & Interview Prep for UX Designers — advanced
- Case Studies & Capstone — advanced
- Case Study: End-to-End Research-to-Design Project — advanced
- Case Study: Improving Onboarding Through Usability Testing — advanced
- Case Study: Information Architecture Redesign — advanced
- Case Study: Mapping and Improving a Multi-Channel Service — advanced
- Capstone: Complete UX Case Study from Research to Validated Design — advanced