🎓 UX MASTERY CURRICULUM

Title: Designing at the Edges: From Competent Creator to Master Designer

Duration: Self-paced

Format: Courses, Custom Lectures, Applied Projects, Capstone

Focus: Clarity • Creativity • Contextual Mastery • Communication

CURRICULUM STRUCTURE

Course	Title	Category
01	The Psychology of Interfaces	Behavioral Science + JTBD
02	Systems by Design	Service Mapping + Complex Systems
03	Precision in UX	UX Architecture + Heuristics + Analytics
04	The Ethical Designer	Inclusive Design + Ethical Practice
05	UX for Engineers	Frontend, APIs, Component Design
06	Influence & Insight	Storytelling + Stakeholder Communication
CPSTN	Capstone: Design at the Edges	Integrated Topic Mastery Project

Outcome: Understand how human psychology shapes user behavior. Master the Jobs-To-Be-Done method to uncover real motivations behind product use.

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Objectives: Grasp the psychology of attention, memory, and decision-making in UI design.

📚 Read:

🧠 Exercise:

[x] Choose 1 common product (e.g., Spotify, Google Docs, Uber) and Identify 3 behavioral design patterns it uses (e.g., progressive disclosure, affordances)
- Write 1 paragraph per pattern explaining:
  - the human behavior behind it
  - how it reduces cognitive load or friction

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Objectives: Learn to define user goals based on progress, not personas.

📚 Read/Watch:

🧪 Task:

[x] Conduct 2 JTBD-style interviews (template provided).
- For each, identify:
  1. Functional, emotional, and social jobs
  2. Push, pull, anxiety, and habit forces
  3. A competing non-obvious “hire”

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Objectives: Understand the impact of motivations on user behavior

📚 Read:

“Beyond Funnels - Designing with Behavior Chains”

🧪 Task:

[x] Rebuild a signup or onboarding flow from a common product using a behavior chain (not a funnel). Annotate each step with its motivator, trigger, and friction

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Objectives: Show high level understanding of Module 1 topics through a comprehensive project

🧪 Task:

[x] Deliverable: Case Study → “Redesigning the Flow to Fit the Job”
- Write: 2-page UX breakdown OR Figma prototype annotated with JTBD + psychological choices </aside>