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UX/UI Design Fundamentals

Design experiences that help people understand and act

Learn the foundations of user experience and interface design required to make AI products, tools, and workflows clear, usable, and appropriately trustworthy.

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Inside this Book

Depth you can build on

Develop a connected understanding of UX/UI Design Fundamentals, with the depth to revisit important ideas and apply them to your own work.

Pages
331
Parts
5
Chapters
16

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Why this Book

Understanding that carries into practice

This Book turns product intent into coherent interaction. It helps you design what people see, what they understand, what they can do, and how the solution responds across normal use, uncertainty, and error.

The professional problem

A valuable idea can fail when users do not know what to do, cannot interpret output, or have no way to recover. AI-powered experiences add variability and make feedback, review, boundaries, and agency especially important.

What you learn

Build understanding you can use

  1. How user goals and context shape decisions.

  2. How hierarchy, layout, language, and consistency support understanding.

  3. How affordances, feedback, states, and flows guide interaction.

  4. Why accessibility and inclusive design matter.

  5. How to design loading, error, review, correction, and completion states.

  6. How AI changes expectations and trust.

  7. How usability evidence improves the product.

Explore the contents

A closer look inside the Book

Follow the ideas from their foundations into practice. Each part of UX/UI Design Fundamentals develops a connected set of skills and decisions you can bring to your work.

Part 01

Understanding UX/UI as an AI Builder

  • Chapter 1: Why Design Matters for Builders
  • Chapter 2: UX, UI, Usability, and Product Design
  • Chapter 3: Users, Tasks, and Context
Part 02

User Flows and Interface Structure

  • Chapter 4: Mapping User Flows
  • Chapter 5: Information Architecture and Navigation
  • Chapter 6: Screen Structure and Layout
Part 03

Visual Design Foundations

  • Chapter 7: Visual Hierarchy and Attention
  • Chapter 8: Spacing, Alignment, and Consistency
  • Chapter 9: Typography, Color, and Contrast
Part 04

Designing Common Interface Patterns

  • Chapter 10: Forms, Inputs, and User Decisions
  • Chapter 11: Dashboards, Lists, and Data Displays
  • Chapter 12: Feedback, Empty States, Errors, and Loading States
Part 05

AI Interfaces and Design Handoff

  • Chapter 13: Designing Interfaces for AI-Powered Products
  • Chapter 14: Accessibility, Trust, and Responsible Interface Design
  • Chapter 15: Using AI Tools Without Losing Design Judgment
  • Chapter 16: Preparing Designs for MVP Builds

Core ideas

Principles that stay with you

Design supports action

An interface helps someone accomplish a meaningful goal.

Clarity reduces cognitive load

Hierarchy and consistency make decisions easier.

Every state matters

Errors and uncertainty deserve intentional design.

Trust should be calibrated

People need information and control to rely appropriately.

Usability is evidence

Observe real behavior rather than assuming clarity.

Your capabilities

Turn knowledge into professional judgment

  • User-flow and interaction design.
  • Information hierarchy and interface clarity.
  • Feedback and state design.
  • Accessibility awareness.
  • Human-AI trust design.
  • Usability evaluation and iteration.

Who this Book is for

Bring your context to the learning

Designers, builders, product professionals, founders, consultants, and non-programmers creating applications, prototypes, internal tools, or AI-enabled services.

Professional applications

Put it to work

  • Design an AI assistant interaction.
  • Create a clear MVP journey.
  • Improve review of generated output.
  • Plan honest onboarding.
  • Investigate abandonment or confusion.

Connected Learning Paths

One foundation. Several ways forward

Connect this Book with complementary capabilities and work toward a specific professional outcome.

Career connection

Part of a larger professional capability

The strategist must understand the human need; the builder must make the response usable. This Book connects those responsibilities.

Your transformation

Design for understanding and agency

You should be able to define a clear user flow, apply core interface principles, account for important states and accessibility, and improve an AI experience through evidence.

Our Methodology

A clear progression from learning individual skills (books) to building complex abilities (learning paths and academies) and an entire career around them.

A group of books builds learning paths; a group of learning paths builds Academies; and a group of Academies builds the AI Strategist & Builder Career.

  1. Books

    Learn a specific skill or topic

  2. Learning Paths

    Achieve a specific goal

  3. Academies

    Master a specialty

  4. Career

    Become an AI Strategist & Builder

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