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CPD Approved UX Design Course For Professionals: €1050.00. Book before 10th September to avail of 20% discount €1050 to €840. Flexible instalment payment plans are available. Apply Online! |
This UX/UI Design Course, formally accredited by The CPD Certification Service UK, introduces the core principles of User Interface (UI) and User Experience (UX) design in web and app development. Learners will explore how user-centred design enhances usability, accessibility, and overall digital product performance, with a focus on best practices for creating intuitive, engaging interfaces and understanding the critical link between UI and UX.
Through practical exercises, students will gain experience in wireframing, vector graphics, and developing interactive digital content, while becoming proficient with key design tools, techniques, and mark-up languages. Become a Certified UX UI Design Professional with this globally recognised certification. This course is aligned with current industry standards, ensuring graduates acquire the latest skills and knowledge demanded by employers.
The average UX/UI Designer salary in Ireland is approximately €51,000 per year. Entry-level roles typically start at around €35,000, while highly experienced professionals can earn €62,000 or more annually.
By the end of this course, learners will be able to:
✔ Assess how an individual user interacts with a digital information system.
✔ Evaluate accepted design practices applicable to prototyping and creating user-centric designs.
✔ Discuss Copyright law as it relates to sourcing media assets for web pages and applications.
✔ Create wireframes, vector images, animations and other relevant UI elements.
✔ Optimise graphics for integration in application and web design.
✔ Explain current and evolving web technologies.
✔ Use core web technologies to provide structure and layout to a front-end web interface.
✔ Contemporary theories and standards in Interaction and Web Design.
✔ Principles of design for Graphical User Interfaces.
✔ Introduction to User Experience Design.
✔ Introduction to Usability Principles.
✔ Identify target audience types and their requirements.
✔ Designing for access and compatibility.
✔ Basic principles of vector images – How do they work? What are they used for?
✔ Creating and saving vector images, drawing and editing shapes, colours, and strokes.
✔ Working with layers, type, gradients, brushes, symbols and effects.
✔ Arranging objects and layers, grouping items, working with artboard, guides, rulers etc.
✔ Editing and combining shapes and paths.
✔ Introduction to the pen tool.
✔ Importing and exporting assets.
✔ Adding Interactivity to Projects
✔ Designing a Link Structure
✔ Designing for Ideal Usability
✔ Best Practices in UI Design
✔ Basic principles of modern Irish/European Copyright Law – How to assess or assert the copyright status of a media asset.
✔ Sourcing public domain assets online.
✔ Editing media and optimising for web publication.
✔ Embedding media assets in a responsive website.
✔ Understanding web-safe fonts.
✔ Writing and Saving Files for the Web
✔ Structuring an HTML Page
✔ HTML Syntax: Tags, Attributes, and Values
✔ Meta-Data and Link Structure in HTML
✔ CSS Syntax: Selectors, Declarations, Properties, and Values
✔ Format and Style in CSS
✔ CSS Animation and Media Queries for Responsive Design
✔ Working with Key-States
✔ Using Curve Editor for Timing Adjustments
✔ Animating Effects
✔ Controlling Animation via Scripting
✔ Working with Hover, Focus, and Active States
✔ Managing Transitions and CSS Animation with Interactivity
✔ Using Custom Variables in CSS
✔ Introduction to Coding Syntax: Bools and If Statements
UX UI Design Course at Dorset College Dublin is now 100% Online: You can now up-skill or re-skill from the comfort of your own home with expert led industry experienced lecturers who will provide you with inspirational lectures and all support materials you need to achieve your goals.
This course is ideal for anyone interested in building practical skills in User Interface (UI) and User Experience (UX) design for websites and apps. Whether you're a recent graduate, a career changer, or simply passionate about design and digital media, this course will give you a solid foundation.
Designed for those from a variety of professional backgrounds and experience levels, for example:
Experience
The assessment strategy is an individual supervised project (70%).. Also students will be individually continuously assessed (30%) and an individual supervised project (70%) - A project designed to showcase your ability to use UX/UI.
Assessment Method:
Continuous Assessment 30%
Individual Project 70%
Recognition Award:
CPD Certification in UX/UI Design & Usability
Awarded by: Dorset College Dublin & CPD Certification Service UK
Ireland offers competitive salaries for UX/UI professionals:
This UX/UI Design course provides job-ready skills that make graduates attractive to employers in a competitive market. Combined with a commitment to CPD and a solid portfolio, students will be well positioned to enter the design industry and grow a successful, fulfilling career.
UX/UI Career Level Annual Salary
Entry-Level: | (0–2 yrs) €35,000 |
Mid-Level: | (2–5 yrs) €51,000 |
Senior Level: | (5+ yrs) €62,000+ |
(Sources: Indeed, SheCodes, Morgan McKinley, PayScale)
To secure a place on this course a non-refundable deposit of €150 applies and the remainder paid in instalments. You have the flexibility of using our online payment facility to manage your course payments at any time, from the comfort of your own home.
Payment Plan
Deposit: | €150.00 | |
1st Instalment: | €450.00 | 01/10/2025 |
2nd Instalment: | €450.00 | 01/11/2025 |