No prior design experience is required. The program is designed to accommodate learners from various backgrounds.
The Google UX Design Certificate is a comprehensive online program designed to equip learners with the essential skills to kickstart a career in user experience (UX) design. It provides a structured approach to understanding user needs, crafting intuitive interfaces, and creating impactful design solutions. The program emphasizes practical application through hands-on projects and real-world case studies.
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Upon successful completion of the Google UX Design Certificate, learners will be able to:
By the end of the program, learners will be well-prepared to enter the UX design field or enhance their existing design skills
Companies of all types and sizes rely on user experience (UX) designers to help make their technology easier and more enjoyable to use. UX designers come from all kinds of backgrounds and experiences. The program, created by Google employees in the field, is designed to provide you with job-ready skills in about 6 months to start or advance your career in UX design.
The most common way to start your career in UX design is an entry-level job that does not require prior experience. The skills and portfolio pieces you’ll develop in this program will help you get started as an entry-level UX designer. Learn about internships, apprenticeships, and freelancing to jumpstart your career change. This video is part of the Google UX Design Certificate, where you'll learn how to design mobile apps and responsive websites. You'll follow the design process from beginning to end: empathizing with users, defining their pain points, coming up with ideas for design solutions, creating wireframes and prototypes, and testing your designs with users to get feedback. By the end of the program, you'll have a professional UX portfolio with three design projects. The program, created by Google employees in the field, is designed to provide you with job-ready skills in about 6 months to start or advance your career in UX design.
Take a look around the room you’re in right now. Notice the ergonomics of your chair? What about the device you’re using to play this video on right now? Almost everything around you started off as a design problem or design challenge. How does something go from a design challenge to an actual user-centered product? One way is through design sprints. Let’s explore the 5 phases of design sprints and identify when to use them.
Encounter common UX design terms and frameworks while you explore user-centered design and how it's applied. We'll introduce you to popular UX design tools and how designers think across platforms, from mobile apps to hardware devices.
How do you demonstrate your UX design skills and show examples of your work during the job application process? Build an online portfolio. Discover an array of tools for creating a cohesive and consistent professional design presence online. By the end of this video, you can even start creating your own website.
Psychology is a big deal in UX Design. Nearly everything is designed to fit humans, from pants pockets to electric cars. But that wasn’t always the case. Take journey back to WWII to find out how the human factor became a consideration in design.
The goal of UX research is to prioritize the user and help bridge the gap between what a business thinks the user needs and what the user actually needs, before an expensive and time-consuming product is made.
Empathy is key to creating phenomenal experiences for your users. Every activity in this video will bring you closer to empathising with your potential user allowing you to define your user, their feelings about an experience, and the problem you need to solve for them.
What is design ideation and why is it so important? The process of generating broad ideas with no judgement is one of the fundamentals of idea generation and it's time to learn a few brainstorming approaches you may use in your career.
Practice using empathy maps, personas, user stories, and user journey maps as tools while learning to draw your first wireframe.
Transition from wireframes to low-fidelity prototypes. Create paper prototypes, learn from Figma about how to use their tool to create digital prototypes, and explore ways to recognize potential bias in your designs.
Learn how to build wireframes for a new product or feature. Focus on organizing the information in your wireframe, using what we call information architecture as you discover more tools and principles to add to your UX toolbox!
Use the feedback and data you gathered during your usability study and revise the original design to create a new and improved version. Get to the heart of UX design, which is all about coming up with an idea, getting feedback from participants or users, and iterating to make the idea better.
Take a deep dive into two different ways to present your findings: the presentation, which is a group of slides where each slide has new information; and the research report, which is a document with fewer visuals, but containing the same information as the presentation.
Learn how to conduct research with a usability study to test your prototype. Once you have your research findings, use the insights to iterate on and improve your prototype, as well as share and promote your research insights.
Conducting research — an essential part of getting feedback from participants — can be tricky. Focus primarily on usability studies as you learn how to reduce bias and be inclusive, and take notes while observing participants in a usability study.
Create a high-fidelity prototype in Figma by turning mockups into prototypes that are ready for testing. Explore two new concepts, gestures and motion, which can help enrich the user experience and increase usability.
Explore how to refine and improve your mockup using visual design principles. Discover the power of emphasis, hierarchy, scale, unity, and variety, and practice strategies to help you review the work you’ve done so far on your mockup.
Dive into the world of design systems and sticker sheets. Explore Google and Shopify's design systems which are free for you to utilize in your own work. Plus, learn how to use Figma's design system library and set up your own sticker sheets.
Apply your understanding of research to test a high-fidelity prototype and then iterate on the existing design. After that, learn how to hand off designs to engineers for production, and turn the whole process into a case study for your portfolio!
Get a detailed look at giving and receiving feedback as you learn about design critique sessions. Watch part of a mock design critique session in action and see how you can turn feedback into concrete actions.
Focus on high-fidelity designs as you create a mockup, which is a hi-fi design that represents your final product using visual design elements and layouts. Understand some essential elements of visual design and ways to lay them out on a screen.
Take all that you’ve learned about the design process and start a brand new project designing a responsive website in Adobe XD. Adobe XD is a really valuable tool for UX designers to learn and is often listed on entry-level job postings as a required skill.
Learn how to build a low-fidelity prototype in Adobe XD and incorporate user feedback to improve it.
Competitive audits are a key step in the design ideation process. Learn how to conduct audits and use the information to ideate a great product.
Step-by-step tutorial for creating mockups for your website in Adobe XD. Your designs will start to look and feel like a real responsive website! Then, you’ll turn your mockups into a high-fidelity prototype.
Step-by-step tutorial for creating mockups for your website in Adobe XD. Your designs will start to look and feel like a real responsive website! Then, you’ll turn your mockups into a high-fidelity prototype.
It’s time to bring your ideas to life in a wireframe. To learn how to create wireframes for a responsive website, we’ll start with some basics like common website layouts, paper wireframes, digital wireframes, and building wireframes in Adobe XD.
You’re ready to move into high-fidelity design. Let's build new iterations of your designs that incorporate visual design elements, like typography, color, and iconography. You’ll also create a high-fidelity prototype with more complex interactions and animations.
Take everything you’ve learned about the user problem you’re trying to solve and come up with a basic version of your dedicated mobile app. Start with paper wireframes and end with a low-fidelity prototype!
Transform your wireframes and ideas into a responsive website.
Designing for social good is a way for UX designers to take problems going on in their own community and address them. The opportunity to have a positive impact on the world around you is endless.
Go through this guided prep for your design portfolio and interview process. Get ready to answer your interview questions with ease, and land your first customer or job.
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