Google UX Design Professional Certificate
Date | In Progress
About this Professional Certificate
Follow the design process: empathize with users, define pain points, ideate solutions, create wireframes and prototypes, test and iterate on designs
Apply foundational UX concepts, like user-centred design, accessibility, and equity-focused design
Understand the basics of UX research, like planning research studies, conducting interviews and usability studies, and synthesising research results
Create a professional UX portfolio that includes 3 end-to-end projects: a mobile app, a responsive website, and a cross-platform experience
Courses Completed
Foundations of User Experience (UX) Design
Start the UX Design Process: Empathise, Define, and Ideate
Build Wireframes and Low-Fidelity Prototypes
Conduct UX Research and Test Early Concepts
Create High-Fidelity Designs and Prototypes in Figma
Build Dynamic User Interfaces (UI) for Websites
Foundations of User Experience (UX) Design
Define the field of UX and explain why it’s important for consumers and businesses.
Understand foundational concepts in UX design, such as user-centred design, the design process, accessibility, and equity-focused design.
Identify the factors that contribute to great user experience design.
Review common job responsibilities of entry-level UX designers and teams that they work with.
Explore job opportunities and career paths within the field of user experience.
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: Empathise, Define, and Ideate
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-Fidelity Prototypes
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 organise 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.
Recognise 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
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 analyse 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
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 organise, standardise, 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.