UX Design   

Welcome to the Coursera UX Designer Career Academy. This comprehensive program is designed to equip aspiring UX designers with the essential skills and knowledge needed to excel in the dynamic field of user experience design. Through this curriculum, you'll learn how to leverage user research and design principles to create intuitive, impactful digital experiences that drive user engagement and satisfaction.

Throughout this program, you'll master a wide array of UX design tools and techniques, including user research, wireframing, prototyping, usability testing, and accessibility standards. You’ll gain proficiency in industry-standard platforms like Figma and Adobe XD, while developing a deep understanding of user-centered design, information architecture, and interaction design. This program prepares you to create user personas, design responsive interfaces, conduct usability studies, and build professional portfolios that showcase your ability to solve real-world design challenges, setting you up for success in a UX design career. The UX Designer Career Academy includes the Google UX Design Professional Certificate, and Microsoft UX Design Professional Certificate as well as and 8 Guided Projects:

• Create a website with MailChimp
• Communicate UX Reserach with Empathy Maps in Miro
• How to design Facebook and IG stories using Canva
• Create a Mockup in Figma
• Generate a User Experience (UX) Onboarding Map in Miro
• Draw an Interactive Wireframe in Mockplus
• Get Started with User Experience (UX) Design in Miro
• Develop a UX Customer Problem Statement in Miro

The course combines video lectures, interactive labs, and real-world projects to ensure you not only learn but apply your knowledge effectively. With guided assessments and feedback, you will build a robust portfolio that showcases your skills to potential employers.

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Prepare for a career in the high-growth field of UX design, no experience or degree required. With professional training designed by Google, get on the fast-track to a competitively paid job. There are over 58,000 open jobs in UX design with a median entry-level salary of $117,000 in the U.S.

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.

Over 7 courses, gain in-demand skills that will prepare you for an entry-level job.

You will create designs on paper and in digital design tools like Figma. 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.

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Through hands-on projects and expert-led instruction, you'll learn the entire UX design process, from conducting user research and creating wireframes to designing high-fidelity mockups and prototypes. You'll also learn essential soft skills like collaboration and communication, crucial for success in any design role.

This Professional Certificate is unique in its focus on:

• Hands-on Learning: You'll build a professional portfolio showcasing your skills to potential employers.

• AI in UX Design: Leverage AI as a powerful tool to enhance UX Design efficiency and creativity.

• Industry-Relevant Tools: Learn to use Microsoft PowerPoint, Figma, and Fluent 2, popular design tools used by professionals.

• Accessibility and Inclusive Design: Create designs that cater to diverse user needs.

• Collaborative Design: Gain experience working with cross-functional teams.

Upon completion, you'll be able to:

• Conduct user research and create user personas.

• Develop wireframes, mockups, and interactive prototypes.

• Apply visual design principles and create high-fidelity designs.

• Understand and implement accessibility guidelines.

• Effectively communicate design decisions and collaborate with stakeholders.

• Receive guidance on resume building, job searching, and interviewing.

No prerequisites are required. Whether you're switching careers or just starting, this program will provide you with the foundation and practical skills needed to thrive in the exciting field of UX design.

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In this 2.5 hours project you will create a complete website using MailChimp Website builder. You will create a website structure starting from the business goals, organize calls-to-action, create pages, arrange page sections, edit image and text content, connect content with links, preview for desktop and mobile, finally publish online. You will have the opportunity to create a website for your portfolio with full hands-on practice activities.

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By the end of this project, you will be able to leverage applied empathy to interpret User Experience research so that it can be effectively communicated within an empathy map visualization. To do this, you will gain hands-on experience applying design thinking, empathy, and context from User Experience research to create an empathy map in the Miro online visual collaboration platform for teamwork.

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In this project you will learn how to design stories for Facebook and Instagram using the Canvas platform. Canvas is a great option for those looking for a user-friendly and easy-to-use platform to create attractive designs for their own business or social media content. Canva has many elements that are free and it gives you a lot of freedom when designing. In addition to this, Canva has paid content that offers another endless number of elements and possibilities for the design but they are not mandatory or totally necessary, so the user has the freedom to choose how much content or elements they want to have at their disposal. Canva is an extremely useful tool for those who are just starting out and even becomes a very good tool for those who have spent years designing in more advanced programs. It is a fast option that does not need to be installed on your computer and as long as you have an Internet connection, it will be an accessible tool.

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This Guided Project “Create a Mockup in Figma” is for anyone who wants to learn to create their own mockup items. In this 1-hour long project-based course, you will learn to create t-shirt mockups on Figma. You will also learn to create a hair oil bottle mockup for a cosmetic business using the artboard studio mockup plugin. You will also learn to integrate third-party plugins (Artboard studio mockup and removebg) on Figma. To achieve this, we will work through :

Task 1 : Introduction and creating an account on Figma
Task 2 : Exploring Figma’s interface
Task 3 : Creating a men’s t-shirt mockup on Figma
Task 4 : Integrating artboard studio mockup plugin on Figma
Task 5 : Importing a hair oil bottle mockup from the artboard studio plugin
Task 6 : Adding designs to the hair oil bottle mockup

This project is unique because it’s helpful for an individual who wants to design his/her own clothing mockups and is also helpful for small business owners who want to scale their businesses. This course is beginner-friendly, so you don’t need to have any experience before. Let's get started!

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By the end of this project, you will be able to generate a user experience onboarding map to visualize the complete entry process that a user has at the start of their relationship with a brand so that an organization can grow longevity by ensuring that they get off on the right foot with users.

To do this you will gain hands-on experience exercising empathy to accurately document brand touchpoint, pain points, and gain points across the onboarding journey in the Miro online visual collaboration platform for teamwork.

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By the end of this project, you will be able to design and visualize an end-to-end user experience. To do this you will gain hands-on experience exercising empathy to accurately document the stages, actions, emotions, and thoughts of the user while assessing opportunities and overall qualities of the customer experience in the Miro online visual collaboration platform for teamwork.

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By the end of this project, you will be able to create an accurate customer problem statement that diagrams the problem that your brand or product will solve for the customer. The power of creating a customer problem statement is that it becomes business intelligence that can maximize business opportunities by solving user experience problems. It does this by expanding upon the knowledge of the customer’s user experience by empathizing with the customer and the challenges or needs they must meet as a part of their normal life journey.

In your project you will understand the benefits and use cases for customer problem statements while developing your own customer problem statement geared toward solving user experience or UX problems. To do this, you will gain hands-on experience applying design thinking, user experience knowledge, and context from the customer journey to build a visualization of a customer problem statement in the Miro online visual collaboration platform for teamwork.

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In this 2-hour long project-based course, you will learn how to create an interactive wireframe for a social book reading app with Mockplus, drafting an interaction flowchart in connect mode, drawing the wireframe with multiple components, adding interactive elements, grouping, ordering and aligning the components on screen with the aid of grids and guides, and finally previewing and testing.

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