Short course | Beginner friendly | Online/On-campus | Lecturer Driven | Practical
Usability Testing
Usability testing is the practice of evaluating a product by testing it with real users — the most direct way to discover whether your designs actually work. This hands-on 2-week course takes you through planning, conducting, and analysing usability tests, then iterating on your designs based on real findings, guided by an industry-experienced lecturer.
What you'll learn?
Usability Testing
Duration
1 week
Next course
31 August 2026 – 02 September 2026
Price, starting at
Test your designs with real users
Usability testing is what separates assumption-driven design from evidence-based design — it's how you find out whether your product works before you launch it. In this course you'll learn how to plan a usability test, write test scripts, recruit participants, and run both moderated and unmoderated testing sessions using tools like Maze, UserTesting, and Zoom. You'll develop the analytical skills to identify usability issues, prioritise them by severity, and translate your findings into clear, actionable design recommendations. In Week 2 you'll put everything together in a structured testing project, working through a real design challenge from test plan to iteration. You'll leave with a Certificate of Completion from the Academy of Digital Arts and a usability testing project demonstrating your research and design evaluation skills.
What you'll learn
In this course you will learn the following skills:
- Introduction to usability testing and its purpose
- Creating test plans and defining success metrics
- Setting up remote and in-person user tests
- Moderated vs. unmoderated testing
- A/B testing basics and RITE testing
- Analysing and reporting results
- Tools: Lookback.io, Maze, Figma, Google Sheets
How it works
The course runs Mondays and Wednesdays from 6 pm to 8 pm. On Tuesdays there will be a check-in session with the lecturer.
Over the runtime of the course you will learn everything from scratch while being instructed by a lecturer.
After the course is finished you will receive a Certificate of Completion.
You will have your project work as part of your portfolio.
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