User Experience Designer Pathway
This course equips you with the knowledge, skills, and experience you need to start a career in the UX design field. Throughout this course, you will navigate the design process, from user research to wireframing and prototyping, and learn about the two types of UX design projects. You will discover and apply essential skills, such as information architecture and user personas, that are critical for making informed design decisions. Furthermore, you will have opportunities to practice implementing the user-centered, visual, and interaction design principles to create exceptional user experiences.
You can build skills, practice work-based skills, and get job ready!
Complete this self-paced course with experiential learning, including capstone projects. You can earn up to six (6) digital credentials, or badges, in this order:
Microcredential 1: Principles of UX Review and Enhancement
Microcredential 2: User Experience Redesign
Microcredential 3: User-centered and Story-based Design
Microcredential 4: Information Architecture, Wireframing, and Prototyping Strategies
Microcredential 5: Security Operations and Management
Microcredential 6: Navigation Design for User Engagement
Learning outcomes:
After completing this course, you should be able to:
Analyze and evaluate the UX design of an existing digital product
Redesign the UX of an existing digital product to conclude findings and recommendations in a UX report
Apply the concepts of user-centered design and story-based design during the discovery and plan phases of a new design project
Apply the strategies for information architecture (IA), wireframing, and
prototyping to design a new digital product
Apply the principles of responsive design, strategies for gesture-based
interactions, and principles of accessibility to enhance the user
experience
Determine the visual design principles to improve aesthetics and design recommendations to address usability issue
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