Learn UX Design. Use your powers for social good.

Our industry experts will guide you through a process for designing digital products and services that are useful, meaningful, and have that spark of magic. During this four-day workshop, you'll collaborate in interdisciplinary teams to solve a real world problem with our non-profit partner, The American Red Cross of Columbus. Cooper's User Experience (UX) Bootcamps are fun, inspiring, and chock-full of information that will change the way you work. Whether you're new to design or an experienced professional, you'll leave the Bootcamp ready to make great digital products and services that will have an impact. To ensure lots of personalized attention, registration is limited to 30 participants. You won't want to miss this unique, one-of-a-kind experience.

About our non-profit partner

The American Red Cross provides relief to victims of disasters, help people prevent, prepare for, and respond to emergencies. Through the duration of the Bootcamp, we will collaborate with volunteers from the Columbus, Ohio chapter to identify and solve a real human need. They will act as your client and provide feedback on your solutions. For more information on the American Red Cross, visit: columbus.redcross.org.

The UX Bootcamp Midwest will be held in Columbus, OH. In 2008, Forbes Magazine ranked the city as the number 1 up-and-coming tech city in the nation. The city offers a diverse economy, fantastic shopping, and world-class dining. Visit www.experiencecolumbus.com for more information.

What you'll learn

Cooper UX Bootcamps are offered in several regions nationally and internationally. They're ideal for designers, developers, design managers, interaction and UX designers, IAs, and content managers. It's the most collaborative, exciting, rewarding, and fun learning experience you can find.

This four day course will teach you how to:

• Use innovation games to articulate a shared product vision with stakeholders
• Learn techniques for studying people to uncover their dreams, hidden assumptions, and unmet needs
• Identify experience attributes to set the emotional tone of your product
• Model personas that build empathy and provide a common design target for your teams
• Storyboard scenarios to explore your future product in different contexts over time
• Sketch the design framework for mobile, tablet, or an entire product ecosystem
• Lead effective design reviews to take your concepts from good to great