UX Design Professional Course – Google Certified

UX Design Professional Course - Google Certified

UX Design Professional Course - Google Certified
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LAUNCHING SOON

This is your path to a career in UX design. In this program, you’ll learn in-demand skills that will have you job-ready in less than 6 months. No degree or experience required.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

  • Follow the design process: empathize with users, define pain points, ideate solutions, create wireframes and prototypes, test and iterate on design.

  • Understand the basics of UX research, like planning research studies, conducting interviews and usability studies, and synthesizing research results.

  • Apply foundational UX concepts, like user-centered design, accessibility, and equity-focused design.

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

    SKILLS YOU WILL GAIN

  • 31 Sections
  • 149 Lessons
  • 0 Quizzes
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  • 100h Duration
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Foundations of User Experience (UX) Design

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WEEK 1 - Introduction to UX Design

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  • Welcome to the Google UX Design Certificate
  • Begin the Google UX Design Certificate
  • Introduction to Course 1: Foundations of User Experience Design
  • Welcome to Course 1
  • Your UXD Portfolio Roadmap
  • Helpful tips to get started
  • Introduce yourself
  • Michael - Get started in UX design

Get to know user experience design

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  • Welcome to week 1
  • The basics of user experience design
  • Jobs in the field of user experience
  • User experience careers
  • The product development life cycle
  • The product development life cycle
  • Design for a good user experience
  • Characteristics of a good user experience
  • Activity Exemplar: Identify good user experience
  • Discussion Prompt - Examine user experiences in your life

Explore jobs in user experience

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  • Job responsibilities of entry-level UX designers
  • Dane - A day in the life of an entry-level UX designer
  • Specialists, generalists, and T-shaped designers
  • Erika - Generalist or specialist designer
  • The role of a beginner UX designer
  • Work in a cross-functional team
  • Interact with cross-functional teammates

Understand the types of companies that hire UX designers

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  • UX design jobs at different types of companies
  • The influence of company size and industry

Pursue a career in UX design

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  • From certificate to career success
  • Juan - A UX design career journey
  • Mike - A UX design career journey

WEEK 1 Review

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  • Wrap-up: Introducing user experience design

WEEK 2 - Thinking Like a UX Designer

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Get to Know the User

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  • Welcome to week 2
  • User-centered design
  • Who are my users?
  • Assistive technology
  • Elise - The importance of assistive technology
  • Akhil - Thinking about users new to technology

Get to know UX design best practices and trends

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  • Design Thinking: A UX design framework
  • Universal design, inclusive design, and equity-focused design
  • The importance of equity-focused design
  • Get to know platforms
  • Design for different platforms
  • Designing cross-platform experiences

WEEK 3 - Joining Design Sprints

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  • Learning Objectives
  • Welcome to week 3
  • Introduction to design sprints ###
  • Five phases of design sprints
  • Benefits of design sprints
  • Discussion Prompt - Design sprint experience

Plan design sprints

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  • Plan design sprints
  • The design sprint brief

Participate in design sprints

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  • An entry-level designer’s role in a sprint
  • Organize a design sprint html code embeded
  • Jason - All about design sprints

Reflect on design sprints

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  • Design sprint retrospectives
  • Common retrospective questions
  • Discussion Prompt - Group work experience
  • Week 3 Review - Wrap up Week 3

WEEK 4 - Integrating Research into Design Process

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  • Week Intro

Understand the role of research in design

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  • Integrating research into the design process
  • Emily - The power of UX research
  • Introduction to UX research
  • Learn more about UX research
  • Christie - Design and the importance of feedback
  • Discussion - Share your experience of user research

Explore UX research methods

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  • Choose the right research method
  • Understand benefits and drawbacks of research methods
  • Learn more about research methods
  • Choose the best research method - html code edit
  • Craig - My journey to UX

Identify biases in UX research

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  • Identify types of bias in UX research
  • Learn more about bias in UX research
  • Deana - Identify bias in UX research
  • Discussion - How to reduce research bias in user research
  • Week 4 Review - Wrap-up: Integrating research into the design process

Course 1 Review

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  • Congratulations on completing Course 1: Foundations of User Experience Design
  • Discussion prompt - Share your experience
  • Start the next course

COURSE 2: Start the UX Design Process: Empathize, Define, and Ideate

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  • About this Course
  • Introduction to Course 2: Empathize, Define, and Ideate
  • Introduction to the portfolio project
  • Choose your portfolio project prompt
  • Collaboration and feedback on portfolio projects

Empathize with users

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  • Empathize with users
  • Understand empathy in UX design
  • Optional: Recruit interview participants
  • Determine research goals and questions
  • Activity: Define your research goals and questions
  • Activity Exemplar: Define your research goals and questions
  • Optional: Find and recruit interview participants
  • Optional: Prepare for user interviews
  • Optional: Interviewing users
  • Optional: Conduct user interviews
  • Activity: Build empathy with users to inform your research
  • Activity Exemplar: Build empathy with users to inform your research

Optional: Learn about empathy maps

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  • Empathy Maps
  • Build an empathy map

Identify user pain points

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  • Identify user pain points
  • Optional - Case studies: Products that address pain points
  • Test your knowledge on user pain points

Create personas

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  • Understand personas
  • Learn more about personas
  • Practice Activity: Create personas for the CoffeeHouse project
  • Exemplar: Create personas for the CoffeeHouse project
  • Wrap-up: Empathizing with users and defining pain points
  • Peer-graded Assignment: Weekly challenge 1: Create personas for your portfolio project

COURSE 2 - WEEK 2: Creating User Stories and User Journey Maps

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  • About
  • Welcome to week 2 of Course 2
  • Craft user stories
  • Learn more about user stories
  • Practice Activity: Craft user stories for the CoffeeHouse project
  • Activity Exemplar: Craft user stories for the CoffeeHouse project
  • Activity: Craft user stories for your portfolio project
  • Activity Exemplar: Craft user stories for your portfolio project
  • Consider edge cases
  • Ayan - Real world example of edge cases

Create a user journey map

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  • Create a user journey map
  • Optional - User journey map slides
  • Practice Activity: Create user journey maps for the CoffeeHouse project
  • Activity Exemplar: Create user journey maps for the CoffeeHouse project

Consider accessibility

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  • Consider accessibility when empathizing
  • Consider accessibility during user research
  • Understand the curb cut effect
  • Design accessible experiences HTML CODE
  • COURSE 2 : WEEK 2 REVIEW - Wrap-up: Creating user stories and user journey maps
  • Peer-graded Assignment: Weekly Challenge 2: Create a user journey map for your portfolio project

COURSE 2 - WEEK 3: Defining User Problems

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  • About week 3
  • Welcome to week 3
  • Create problem statements
  • Define problem statements
  • Practise quiz: Self-Reflection: Problem statements and the 5 Ws framework
  • Define hypothesis statements
  • Define hypothesis statements
  • Practice Activity: Build a problem statement and hypothesis statement for the CoffeeHouse project
  • Activity Exemplar: Build a problem statement and hypothesis statement for the CoffeeHouse project
  • Practice Quiz: Activity: Build a problem statement for your portfolio project
  • Activity Exemplar: Build a problem statement for your portfolio project

Create a value proposition

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  • Determine a value proposition
  • Determine a value proposition
  • Practice Quiz: Self-Reflection: Create a value proposition for your portfolio project

Optional - Explore the influence of psychology in UX design

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  • Understand human factors
  • Explore psychology principles that influence design
  • Practice Quiz: Test your knowledge on how psychology and human factors influence design
  • Week 3 review : Wrap-up: Defining user problems
  • Weekly Challenge 3: Define user problems

COURSE 2 : WEEK 4 - Ideating Design Solutions

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  • About Week 4 of Course 2: Ideating Design Solutions
  • Welcome to week 4 of Course 2
  • Understand design ideation
  • Learn more about design ideation

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  • Foundations of User Experience (UX) Design
  • Start the UX Design Process:
  • Build Wireframes and Low-Fidelity Prototypes
  • Conduct UX Research and Test Early Concepts
  • Create High-Fidelity Designs and Prototypes in Figma
  • Responsive Web Design in Adobe XD
  • Design a User Experience for Social Good & Prepare for Jobs

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