Learn to use design thinking to solve real-world UX challenges and create impactful, interactive user experiences that will actively engage your audience.
What you will learn
In the part-time Certificate in User Experience (UX) Design, you’ll explore UX design as a tool for optimizing user experiences, covering essentials from system design to formulating personas that mimic the target audience experience. This program will also allow you to:
- Apply human-centered design principles to identify user needs, develop problem statements, ideate solutions and prototype and test concepts to create impactful, user-centered solutions for real-world challenges
- Design and develop user-centric products, creating information architecture and interaction flows that improve usability, findability and demonstrate an understanding of user journeys
- Leverage AI for function and design for different technologies, formulate stronger design solutions and support design thinking processes
- Conduct effective user research and testing to gather actionable insights, improve design solutions and validate user-centered hypotheses
- Practice using trending industry tools such as Figma and Miro from the start of the program
Program Benefits
- Curriculum created in collaboration with industry leaders
- Work on an integrated capstone project where you will collaborate with a real-world client, gaining hands-on experience from the beginning of the program
- Create a comprehensive portfolio that demonstrates UXD expertise, featuring user personas, user flows, wireframes, prototypes, hi-fidelity design and usability testing insights
- Live online delivery format that emphasizes engagement and interactivity
- Benefit from enhanced peer and instructor connections and graduate with a network of like-mind professionals
