UX Research Impact Course
Visual Design for UX Researchers: Create Impactful Presentations, Wireframes, and Workshop Materials
Zero Risk Enrollment: Receive a full refund through the first week of the course, no questions asked.
Strong visual communication is no longer optional for UX researchers—it’s now a core skill that determines whether your insights land, influence decisions, and shape product direction. This course teaches researchers how to use visual design strategically—not to “make things pretty,” but to make research impossible to ignore. Through hands-on practice with real research artifacts, you’ll learn to transform dense reports into scannable stories, sketch and wireframe confidently in co-ideation sessions, and create visually organized workshop boards and annotations that drive action across product teams.
Across four weeks, you’ll build a practical visual communication toolkit specifically tailored for UX researchers—not designers. You’ll work in Figma Slides and FigJam to redesign an existing research presentation, create low-fidelity wireframes linked directly to insights, and develop facilitation boards and annotated design files that product teams can use immediately. By the end of the course, you’ll graduate with a complete set of polished visual research deliverables and the confidence to communicate your work clearly, credibly, and strategically across any cross-functional environment.
Most researchers learn visual design piecemeal—borrowing a slide template here, a workshop board format there—without ever understanding the underlying principles that make visual communication effective. This course takes a different approach. Each session blends short instructional segments with intensive applied practice, ensuring you learn visual design by actually building real deliverables.
You’ll work with your own research materials alongside provided datasets, applying fundamentals of hierarchy, typography, color, layout, and visual storytelling within tools researchers already use: Figma Slides for presentations and FigJam for sketching, wireframing, and workshop design. Class sessions prioritize hands-on work, peer critique, and side-by-side instructor guidance, helping you build confidence quickly—even if you have no design background.
Over four weeks, your work will build toward a practical final portfolio: a redesigned presentation, annotated wireframes, and a complete workshop facilitation board. These artifacts showcase not only visual design skills, but your ability to translate insights into actionable, compelling visuals that teams can use immediately.
You will learn to:
- Redesign slides using hierarchy, contrast, and layout so stakeholders can grasp insights at a glance.
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Sketch quickly—even if you “can’t draw”—to visually contribute in ideation and solutioning meetings.
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Create wireframes, storyboards, and workshop facilitation boards grounded in research findings.
- Analyze UI decisions visually to communicate more strategically with design partners.
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Annotate design files in clear, structured ways that keep research visible throughout execution.
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Use free templates, icon libraries, image resources, and lightweight tools to produce high-quality visuals with minimal lift.
It positions you as a strategic partner.Researchers who can communicate visually are invited earlier into solution discussions and treated as collaborators, not just insight providers. You gain the ability to influence direction—not just report on it.
It ensures your insights get used.
Most research is ignored because it’s presented in text-heavy, cognitively overwhelming formats. You’ll learn to design for attention, clarity, and memory—ensuring teams understand, remember, and act on what you found.
It eliminates the “I can’t draw” barrier.
Many researchers feel sidelined in co-ideation because they lack sketching confidence. This course builds the visual toolkit you need to participate fully in ideation, exploration, and design conversations.
It increases your strategic influence.
When you can communicate insights visually and connect them to design decisions, you become a partner in shaping product direction. Visual design amplifies your credibility, speeds up comprehension, and leads to more actionable outcomes.
- UX researchers who want their deliverables to be read, understood, and acted upon
- Researchers who feel excluded from visual or co-creative moments because they “can’t draw”
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Mixed-methods practitioners who need to present dense insights visually
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Researchers who collaborate closely with designers, PMs, and engineers
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Anyone who creates text-heavy presentations or workshop materials and wants to make them more engaging and effective
None. No design experience required.
A free Figma account is recommended.
Comfort exploring new tools is helpful, but all concepts are taught from the ground up.
Sahar Chung
Bio
Sahar is a UX strategy leader with 12+ years of experience across mixed-methods research, service design, and program management. Based in the DC area, she brings a strategic, big-picture approach to stakeholder alignment, team culture, and organizational process. She frequently speaks and writes on UX strategy and research, with past engagements at AIGA, Condens, Useberry, MICA, and more.
By course completion, you will confidently:
- Apply visual hierarchy, typography, color, and layout principles to redesign research presentations for clarity, credibility, and impact.
- Sketch ideas and create low-fidelity wireframes to participate actively in co-ideation sessions with designers and PMs.
- Create and organize visual research deliverables such as storyboards, workshop boards, and annotated design files.
- Evaluate UI design decisions through a visual lens, enabling clearer communication with designers about effort, feasibility, and trade-offs.
- Structure and annotate design files so research insights are embedded directly where product decisions happen.
