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UX DESIGNER
UI Designer
interaction designer
visual designer
motion designer
product designer
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Foundations of User Experience (UX) Design
About this course
Learners gain a deeper understanding of foundational terminology and role responsibilities of UX designers. We introduce the kind of jobs learners can pursue upon completing this program.
What you will learn
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- Define the field of UX and explain why it’s important for consumers and businesses
- Understand user-centered design, the design process, accessibility, and equity-focused design
- Identify the factors that contribute to great UX design
- Review common job responsibilities of entry-level UX designers and teams that they work with
- Explain why design sprints are an important and useful part of a UX designer’s work
- Describe common UX research methods
- Identify and account for biases in UX research
Start the UX Design Process: Empathize, Define, and Ideate
About this course
Learners complete the first phases of the design process for a project that they include in their portfolio. Topics such as how to empathize with users and understand their pain points, define user needs using problem statements, and propose many ideas for solutions to those user problems are also covered.
What you will learn
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- Empathize with users to understand their needs and pain points
- Create empathy maps, personas, user stories, and user journey maps to understand user needs
- Develop problem statements to define user needs
- Generate ideas for possible solutions to user problems
- Conduct competitive audits
- Start designing a mobile app, a new project to include in their professional UX portfolio
Build Wireframes and Low-Fidelity Prototypes
About this course
Learners continue to design a mobile app for their professional UX portfolio and develop storyboards, basics of drawing, paper wireframes, and digital wireframes using the design tool Figma. An opportunity for learners to also create a paper prototype and a digital low-fidelity prototype in Figma.
What you will learn
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- Develop a goal statement and create two types of storyboards: big picture and close-up
- Understand the difference between low-fidelity and high-fidelity design
- Apply the basics of drawing and principles of information architecture to organize a mobile app
- Create paper wireframes for a mobile app design and build a paper prototype to add interactivity to designs.
- Develop digital wireframes in the design tool Figma and build a low-fidelity prototype in Figma
- Recognize implicit bias and deceptive patterns in design
- Continue to design a mobile app to include in their professional portfolio
Conduct UX Research and Test Early Concepts
About this course
Learners plan and conduct a usability study to gather feedback about designs. Then, learners will modify their low-fidelity designs based on insights from their research.
What you will learn
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- Plan a UX research study, including the project background, research goals, research questions, Key Performance Indicators, methodology, participants, and script
- Explain the importance of respecting privacy and user data
- Conduct a moderated and unmoderated usability study
- Create affinity diagrams to group and analyze data
- Develop persuasive presentation skills to share research insights
- Modify low-fidelity designs based on research insights
- Continue to design a mobile app to include in their professional portfolio
Create High-Fidelity Designs and Prototypes in Figma
About this course
Learners get step-by-step tutorials on how to create high-fidelity designs, called mockups, in Figma. The opportunity arises to turn those designs into an interactive prototype. Learners conduct research to collect feedback about their designs and make improvements. Finally, explore how to share designs with development teams.
What you will learn
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- Build mockups and high-fidelity prototypes in Figma
- Define and apply common visual design elements and principles
- Demonstrate how design systems can be used to organize, standardize, and enhance designs
- Understand the role of design critique sessions and feedback while iterating on designs
- Learn how to hand off finished design projects to engineering teams
- Complete mobile app designs to include in a professional UX portfolio
Responsive Web Design in Adobe XD
About this course
Learners design a responsive website using Adobe XD, which includes 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 designs to get feedback. By the end of this course, learners have a new design project to include in their professional UX portfolio.
What you will learn
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- Plan information architecture and create sitemaps for website designs
- Apply common layouts for web pages
- Conduct a usability study to gather feedback about designs and iterate on designs based on research insights
- Define quality management standards and explore how to effectively share qualitative data
- [optional] Create or update a UX-focused resume
- [optional] Learn how to search for and apply to introductory-level jobs in the field of UX
Design a User Experience for Social Good and Prepare for Jobs
About this course
Learners design a dedicated mobile app and a responsive website focused on social good. By the end of this course, learners have a new cross-platform design project to include in their professional UX portfolio. This course also prepares learners to land their first jobs as UX designers. They learn how to interview for entry-level UX design positions and get tips from Google employees.
What you will learn
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- Understand progressive enhancement and graceful degradation approaches for designing across devices
- Build wireframes, mockups, and low-fidelity and high-fidelity prototypes in Figma or Adobe XD
- Add a new design project to their professional UX portfolio
- Interview for an entry-level UX design job
- Determine if freelance design work is a good career fit for them
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Being able to connect with employers through the program was the support I needed. I made a full career pivot to UX Design.
Brittany
Digital Designer at Deloitte
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