GRATIS: Official Google UX Design certificate

Start Your Career in Tech

Prepare for a career in the high-growth field of UX design, no experience or degree is required.

User experience (UX) designers focus on the interaction that users have with products, like websites, apps, and physical objects. They make those everyday interactions useful, enjoyable, and accessible.

UX designers focus on the interactions that people have with products like websites, mobile apps, and physical objects. UX designers make those everyday interactions usable, enjoyable, and accessible.

The role of an entry-level UX designer might include empathizing with users, defining their pain points, coming up with ideas for design solutions, creating wireframes, prototypes, and mockups, and testing designs to get feedback.

LEVEL: Beginner

TUITION FEE: Free

What will you learn?

You will create designs on paper and in digital design tools like Figma and Adobe XD. By the end of the certificate program, you will have a professional UX portfolio that includes three end-to-end projects, so that you’re ready to apply for jobs.

Upon completion, you can directly apply for jobs with Google and over 150 U.S. employers, including Walmart, Best Buy, and Astreya.

LEVEL: Beginner

TUITION FEE: Free

The Work in Tech Program equips you with every certification you need to kickstart your career in IT support. Learn effectively, gain in-demand skills and change your life.

Job-Focused Curriculum

The Work in Tech program developed by Google.org will teach you the essential and relevant skills to start a career in IT support.

Flexible and Online

Follow the program at your own pace. The course material is designed for beginners and can be finished in 2 to 5 months, with at least 10 hours per week of study time.

Community Support

Join a cohort of learners and grow together. You’ll be part of the active Work in Tech community with access to support during the course.

Career Prospects

There's great demand for IT support professionals. This program includes job search training and access to network opportunities to accelerate your career development.

Skills you will obtain:

• Have a portfolio website that includes 3 end-to-end projects: a mobile app, a responsive website, and a cross-platform experience.

• Dive into working in Figma and Adobe XD, two of the most in-demand design tools by employers.

• Know how to follow the design process: empathize with users, define pain points, ideate solutions, create wireframes and prototypes, test and iterate on designs.
• Understand the basics of UX research, like planning research studies, conducting interviews and usability studies, and synthesizing research results.

Content breakdown

• 374 Videos
• 228 Readings
• 235 Quizzes
• 133 Hands-on Exercises

Modules Overview

Foundations of User Experience (UX) Design

UX designers focus on the interactions that people have with products like websites, mobile apps, and physical objects. UX designers make those everyday interactions usable, enjoyable, and accessible. The role of an entry-level UX designer might include empathizing with users, defining their pain points, coming up with ideas for design solutions, creating wireframes, prototypes, and mockups, and testing designs to get feedback. By the end of this course, you will be able to: - Define the field of UX and explain why it’s important for consumers and businesses. - Understand foundational concepts in UX design, such as user-centered design, the design process, accessibility, and equity-focused design. - Identify the factors that contribute to great user experience design

Start the UX Design Process: Empathize, Define and Ideate

In this course, you’ll complete the first phases of the design process for a project that you’ll be able to include in your portfolio. You will learn how to empathize with users and understand their pain points, define user needs using problem statements, and come up with lots of ideas for solutions to those user problems. By the end of this course, you will be able to: - 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 your professional UX portfolio.

Build Wireframes and Low-Fedelity Prototypes

In this course, you’ll continue to design a mobile app for your professional UX portfolio. You’ll start by creating storyboards and getting familiar with the basics of drawing. Then, you'll create paper wireframes and digital wireframes using the design tool Figma. You’ll also create a paper prototype and a digital low-fidelity prototype in Figma. By the end of this course, you will be able to: - Develop a goal statement. - 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. - Apply the principles of information architecture to organize a mobile app. - Create paper wireframes for a mobile app design. - Develop digital wireframes in the design tool Figma. - Build a paper prototype to add interactivity to designs. - Design a low-fidelity prototype in Figma. - Recognize implicit bias and deceptive patterns in design. - Continue to design a mobile app to include in your professional portfolio.

Conduct UX Research and Test Early Concepts

In this course, you will learn how to plan and conduct a usability study to gather feedback about designs. Then, you will modify your low-fidelity designs based on insights from your research. Current UX designers and researchers at Google will serve as your instructors, and you will complete hands-on activities that simulate real-world UX design scenarios. By the end of this course, you will be able to: - 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. - Take notes during a usability study. - Create affinity diagrams to group and analyze data. - Synthesize observations from research and come up with insights. - 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 your professional portfolio.

Create High-Fidelity Designs and Prototypes in Figma

In this course, you will follow step-by-step tutorials to learn how to create high-fidelity designs, called mockups, in Figma, a popular design tool. Then, you’ll turn those designs into an interactive prototype that works like a finished product. You’ll conduct research to collect feedback about your designs and make improvements. Finally, you’ll learn how to share your designs with development teams and highlight your work in your professional UX portfolio. By the end of this course, you will be able to: - 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.

Responsive Web Design in Adobe XD

In this course, you will design a responsive website using Adobe XD, a popular design tool. You will complete 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, you will be able to: - Apply each step of the UX design process (empathize, define, ideate, prototype, test) to create a responsive website. - Develop designs in a popular design tool, Adobe XD. - Plan information architecture and create sitemaps for website designs. - Apply common layouts for web pages. - Plan and conduct a usability study to gather feedback about designs. - Iterate on designs based on research insights. - Work with design systems in Adobe XD

Design a User Experience for Social Good and Prepare for Jobs

In this course, you will design a dedicated mobile app and a responsive website focused on social good. You will showcase all that you’ve learned during the certificate program to complete 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, you will be able to: - Apply each step of the UX design process (empathize, define, ideate, prototype, test) to create designs focused on social good. - Identify the differences between dedicated mobile apps and responsive web apps. - 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.

Certification

Earn an official Google certificate with ID check.

Prepare for in-demand jobs such as:

• User Experience (UX) designer
• User Interface (UI) designer
• Interaction designer
• Visual designer
• Motion designer
• Product designer
• Web designer
• User Experience (UX) researcher

Extra benefits:

On completion of the UX design course, learners receive a free 9 month license for Adobe XD.

This course is offered via Kyna, in partnership with INCO Academy and Google.org.

Enrol with ease via: https://www.kyna.co/courses/work-in-tech-ux-design