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 this 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 actually mimic the target audience experience. This program will also allow you to:

• Evaluate and utilize relevant methodologies such as design thinking, participatory design, and the MoSCoW methodology
• Demonstrate best practices in visual design and system design
• Explain how different design systems function and determine their appropriate usage
• Demonstrate cross-functional skills such as team work, communications, problem solving, active listening and storytelling

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Program Benefits

• Curriculum created in collaboration with industry leaders
• Work on experiential projects and practice your UX skill set
• Produce a portfolio of work that effectively applies UX best practices and processes to meet business needs across multiple industries and product types
• Delivery format that allows you to complete the program at a pace that suits your lifestyle—and faster than other institutions
• Advance through the program with the same peer cohort, allowing you to develop a strong professional network

Contact

Format: Part-Time, blended
Delivery: Online coursework + required live online sessions
Live Session Schedule: Two Saturdays each course (9:00 AM – 5:00 PM)
Program Length: 8 months
Term Starts: Winter, Summer, Fall

 

Introducing Live Online Learning

 

2021 Program Award of Excellence (CAUCE)

CSUE1000 Fundamentals of UX Design

The course will provide an overview of the tools, practices and disciplines involved in the practice and theory of user experience design (UXD). User experience design (UXD) is the theory and practice of designing an emergent experience by carefully selecting and synchronizing intersection points between a human experiencer and a technological system. It will give an overview of the wide range of disciplines involved in the theory and practices of user experience design and explain their interactions. Fundamentals of UX design will give the learner the knowledge foundation needed to successfully complete the remaining three practical courses in this certificate program.

2 Classes

36 Hours

CSUE1010 UX Design Research

In the course, you will learn how to conduct, synthesize, and share qualitative research with design and product teams. We will tackle the differences between quantitative and qualitative research and cover a variety of common research methods used within product and agency environments. You'll gain hands on experience writing research plans, discussion guides, and conducting user interviews. We'll explore how to synthesize these findings, and develop themes and strategic direction that emerge from our data. We'll practice sharing these findings in a written and oral format.

2 Classes

36 Hours

CSUE1020 Visual Design, Wireframing and Prototyping

This course covers the full spectrum of creating various wireframe fidelities, mocks and design validating artifacts. By using a collaborative approach, we will put into practice how to translate ideas and preliminary concepts into meaningful user interfaces to support business goals and user needs. You will familiarize yourself with fundamental principles and theories and gain hands-on experience with industry standards for visual design, interactive design, and usability testing methodologies. You will learn how to get participants' feedback from prototyping techniques to develop and leverage design solutions according to insights and collected data. You will also understand what a design system is and establish a strategy by cataloging design assets/components into a universal ecosystem.

2 Classes

36 Hours

CSUE1030 Applied UX Design

The class will investigate the theoretical and practical aspects of innovation and how design tools and methods can be used to deploy a viable product/solution. Design processes and techniques will be studied in readings as well as put into practice in projects throughout the course. Students will be required to present articulate design concepts verbally as well as visually at a professional level. Students will be required to evaluate a product for customer insights, mechanical UX features, marketing context, and design aesthetics and present new concepts as realized through the design/innovation process. A final presentation will be made representing a high level of professional finish, including but not limited to drawings, marketing materials, sketch models, and finished solutions.

2 Classes

36 Hours

Certificate in User Experience (UX) Design

Summer 2023

May 07-Dec 17, 23

Blended
(Online + Live Online Classes)

Course Details +

$4,396.00

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