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Interaction Design Foundation has a rating of 3.9 stars from 83 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally satisfied with their purchases. Reviewers satisfied with Interaction Design Foundation most frequently mention user experience, idf courses, and customer service. Interaction Design Foundation ranks 236th among Education sites.
If you are into learning and improving your knowledge about user experience the right way, this is the place. I have had a very good understanding of processes and many years of experience as a product designer, but I still learned a ton here. Their courses are on different levels. They all have depth. It's not always easy to keep up and stay on track if you start too many courses at once - like I did, but this is your part of a job to balance. For the price, you get unlimited possibilities of what you'll do with it, many, many courses that will improve your knowledge if you pay attention to it. It's just the matter of how you use this source.
I joined for the full year membership thinking I would be taking courses specifically in UX Design. That was not the case. I have a bachelors degree in digital design. The courses offered covered material that every designer learns, not anything specifically to UX design. In fact, all it took was one trip to Barnes and Noble to find numerous books, from numerous authors, and numerous publishers, on UX design that contained information very different from what the courses at IDF offer. The site is great if you want to become a designer in general, (graphic designer, production designer, visual designer, etc.) but does nothing to prepare you to delve into UX design itself. It also is not self-paced has advertised. You have to wait week after week to progress through the courses just like you would in a college classroom, each one taking 4 to 6 weeks. Inside the courses themselves, I found myself routinely answering the same essay questions over and over again. In other words, they would ask the same question a different way several times. Which is fine if you are doing multiple choice, but these were essay questions. So it was infuriating to have to write the same essay question answer over and over again. And the "certification" is through LinkedIn... NOT an academic institution. Its in the fine print after you sign up. LinkedIn.com is a website... NOT a school, college, or institution. The only place this certification is accredited for is LinkedIn's website. That is clearly not what people are lead to believe when signing up. In other words, this is NOT accredited by any means.
You can learn all UX knowledge that you need, no matter what's your level and at your own pace. It's a very useful platform.
The Interaction Design Foundation has a huge selection of courses with valuable content! Their content is growing with more variety.
I joined the platform not quite long and it's been amazing. The courses and certificates are top-notch.
This course is a good starting point to learn about interaction design. The content is great and up to date. The coverage is good too
Very good articulated course structure and intuitive lesson with a lot of engagements. Also price/value ratio is excellent.
Hi Orkun,
Thank you for your kind words! It means a lot to us that you're enjoying our courses.
We think so too: our pricing is very affordable considering the value we deliver. It's not always easy to keep prices low, but we believe everyone should be able to access UX education, no matter where they are.:-)
Warm regards,
Rikke Friis Dam of the Interaction Design Foundation
This is perfect place to get started & upgrade your UI/UX skills. I strongly recommend IDF to all the students & professional.
I started studying with IDF in 2018 because I was being pigeon-holed at work. I was employed as a writer at a software company that, at the management level, could not understand the role of content or storytelling in user-centred design.
I've never attended university, but I've read more books on UCD, UX, IA, CX, HCI - and software development in general - than anyone I know. After realising that I might need some certificates to prove myself, I discovered the Interaction Design Foundation, and can honestly say that it has elevated my confidence and my career astronomically.
I have had mixed feelings about some of the course content (the only reason for my 4 star review). For example, I'm personally not a fan of watching a video then answering multiple choice questions. But the great thing about IDF courses is that they mix it up. Some lessons end in multiple choice questions, while others ask open-ended questions which are graded by an instructor. Those are my favourite!
What I love most about studying with IDF:
- It's a wonderful refresher for existing knowledge. (Sure, I've read a tonne of books, but if you don't exercise what you've learned it decays rapidly.)
- It allows me to put my knowledge to the test, which provides me with a sense of validation that has helped me to overcome imposter syndrome in the workplace.
- I've learned an incredible amount of new information, which has armed me with the vocabulary to articulate my design decisions, or design input, at work. My favourite topic of newly acquired knowledge is Gestalt theory. While I may have read about it in the past, it's not until you have to answer a lesson question — such as: Describe what the Gestaltists meant by the 'Law of Proximity' and provide three examples within your answer — that the learning really embeds itself for life.
- The customer service is exceptional!
- The staff and course creators actually care about the education being provided. I love learning online and have taken a lot of courses on a lot of different platforms. I cannot name a single other learning platform that makes you feel like you're a student on a learning path, as opposed to just another anonymous user who has signed up to watch the educational videos, and to remain firmly planted on the receiving end of their one-way-communication teaching style.
Hi Carlee,
Thanks for taking the time to leave a review and for the feedback. We work hard to strike the perfect balance between video and text-based lessons. Especially in this last year, we've added more resources to our video team and worked closely with our course instructors to dramatically improve the quality of video lessons. We hope that these changes are of value for students who prefer a more text-based approach — such as yourself.:-)
I hope you get around to trying our more recent courses and our updated materials, crossing my fingers that you find the time to earn more of those well-deserved certificates!
Warm regards,
Rikke Friis Dam of the Interaction Design Foundation
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Online UX design courses and literature created by design experts. Don Norman: "A goldmine of information on interaction design."
We’re market leaders in online design education because the world’s leading experts create our content and because we’re specialized in design. Our courses cover the entire spectrum of UX design from beginner to advanced.
With 109,999 graduates, the Interaction Design Foundation is the biggest online design school globally. We were founded in 2002.
Since 2002, we’ve been on a mission to:
- Teach you concrete design skills to advance your career and build a better future for yourself and your employer.
- Teach you how to leverage the power of design in the same way companies such as Apple and Google do.
- Help you apply your new design skills to improve the quality of life for humankind. We live in a world filled with inefficient and frustrating design and you can make a positive impact by designing human-centered technology.
- Democratize education by providing top-quality, online design courses at a fraction of the cost of traditional education.
- We offer you the best expertise from both high-tech companies and academia. We produce top-grade learning materials with elite industry designers from Google and IBM as well as top professors from Stanford, MIT and Cambridge University.
- We facilitate learning and career advancement in 467 Local Groups in 95 countries.
Hi Temi,
Thank you for your kind review! I'm so happy to hear you're enjoying your experience on our platform thus far! We work day-and-night (literally!) to bring high-quality, top-notch content, courses, and Master Classes to all of our members and non-members alike.;)
I hope you continue to make phenomenal progress with the IxDF!
Warm regards,
Rikke Friis Dam of the Interaction Design Foundation