Introduction to UX and Accessible Design

Learn how to design more accessible user interfaces

User interfaces are the part of technology that connect you to your devices, humans to algorithms – allowing people to take their ideas and turn them into products.

Interfaces are vital to modern technology. But how can we ensure they’re accessible for all users? On this course, you’ll learn from disabled user experience (UX) experts about the issues facing disabled users.

You’ll get to grips with the guidance and regulations covering user interfaces, and learn to master CSS and JavaScript to make easier-to-use interfaces, taking your first steps to becoming a UX designer.

Featured in the UK government’s The Skills Toolkit collection.

This course is aimed at early-career creative technologists, established technologists looking to extend their skills, as well as professionals from wider fields looking to understand more about accessible design, and the importance and opportunities that user interfaces and creative technologies present.

You might also be interested in the other courses in the Essential Creative Technologies collection from UAL Creative Computing Institute, Lancaster University and the Institute of Coding.

• Inclusive interfaces
• Welcome to the course
• What is it like to be a user?
• Designing for accessibility
• Designing interfaces for accessibility
• What impact can accessible interfaces have?
• Summary
• Applying accessibility
• Welcome back
• Accessible websites
• The accessible design cycle
• Facing the future: careers in this area
• Summary