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Interaction Design Essentials

Design feedback, motion and microinteractions that make interfaces feel obvious and responsive.

Maya Thompson4.8(842)6.4K learners11 hoursIntermediate

Overview

Great interfaces explain themselves through feedback, affordances and timing. This course teaches the core principles of interaction design, from mental models and Fitts's law to microinteractions and gesture design, with hands-on exercises that you prototype and refine as you go.

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Level
Intermediate
Language
English
Updated
Jun 2026
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2 lessons

What you'll learn

  • Apply affordances, signifiers and feedback loops to everyday UI problems
  • Design microinteractions with clear triggers, rules and outcomes
  • Prototype realistic flows with variables and conditional logic in Figma
  • Use Fitts's law and Hick's law to size and prioritise controls
  • Design touch gestures that feel natural on mobile
  • Evaluate interactions with heuristic walkthroughs

Curriculum

4 modules · 16 lessons · 11h total

The mental models and laws that explain why some interfaces just work.

  • Mental Models and Conceptual DesignFree preview45m
  • Affordances and SignifiersFree preview7m
  • Fitts's Law and Hick's Law in Practice61m
  • Feedback, Response Time and Perceived Speed41m

Requirements

  • Basic familiarity with Figma frames and components
  • Completion of an introductory design course or equivalent experience
  • A laptop capable of running the Figma desktop app

Skills you'll build

Completing this course raises these proficiencies in your skill profile.

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Your instructor

Maya Thompson

Senior Product Designer, Tarkeeb Labs

Maya has spent twelve years designing fintech and marketplace products across New York, Singapore and Berlin. She leads design critique at Tarkeeb Labs and has mentored over 400 first-time designers into their first product role. Her teaching style is practical, warm and relentlessly focused on shipping work you can show.

4.9 instructor rating16K learners3 courses
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Anika Das

Product Designer at Zenith Pay

Sep 11, 2026

The microinteraction module gave me vocabulary I did not have before. My developers finally understand what I mean by 'feedback loop'.

Tom Brennan

UX Designer

Aug 2, 2026

Very practical and well paced. The Figma variables lesson saved me hours on my current project.

Rezwana Karim

Frontend Developer

Jul 18, 2026

As a developer, this helped me notice the interaction details I used to skip. Highly recommended for cross-functional teams.

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