To master UX skills requires adequate guidance from industry professionals. Here are 6 UX design courses from top universities, all FREE!

This article includes 6 FREE UX design courses form top universities around the world.

To become an excellent UX designer, you need to master many necessary skills.

For example, you need to master architecture of user experience design (in terms of usability) and UCD (user-centered design) skills. You need to know how to use basic design tools, such as Axure, Mockplus, Sketchand other prototyping tools. You need to grasp the entire process of web design and development. You need to have an insightful market vision and always notice the latest industry trends. You need to be good at analyzing user behavior patterns, analyzing user's feedback and putting it into the design of the product. We can go on and on...

Mastering these skills requires hands-on practice. More than that, though, it requires adequate guidance from industry experts. However, educational resources in the UX design industry are scarce, and only a few people have the opportunity to receive professional education.

Moreover, the quality and professionalism of the UX design courses offered by various institutions and individuals cannot be guaranteed. The massive demand cannot be met, so we've put together a list of several free UX online courses offered by top universities and enterprises for your reference

There are 8 lessons in this course:

Human-Centered Design: an Introduction

Design Principles: an Introduction

Social Computing

Input and Interaction

User Experience: Research & Prototyping

Information Design

Designing, Running, and Analyzing Experiments

Interaction Design Capstone Project

This UX design course has a high rating of 4.3/5 on Class Central. In these 8 high-quality classes, Professor Scott Klemmer professionally and systematically describes how to create a good user experience design from the perspective of interactive design theory and practice, cognitive psychology, user interface design, and human-computer interaction.

In this course, you will learn how to analyze and research user requirements, how to draw prototypes, some principles of user interface design and strategies for design evaluation. It is best if you can seriously complete the small tests and tasks that are required in this course.

There are 9 lessons in this course:

Understanding User Needs

Principles of Designing for Humans

Introduction to User Experience

Evaluating Designs with Users

UX (User Experience) Capstone

UX Design: From Concept to Wireframe

UX Design: From Wireframe to Prototype

UX Research Surveys

UX Research at Scale: Analytics and Online Experiments

This UX design course was first published by EdX in the fall of 2016 by the School of Information, the University of Michigan. You need to pay 1041 knives if you want to get a "graduation certificate" validated by the University of Michigan after completing this course. If you don't need a certificate, you can participate in this course for free.

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