
Google UX Design Certificate
Get started in the fast-growing field of user experience (UX) design with a professional UX certificate developed by Google. Learn the foundations of UX design, including empathizing with users, building wireframes and prototypes, and conducting research to test your designs — and discover how to effectively utilize AI in UX design.
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Learn the foundations of UX design and get the job-ready skills you need to launch a career in this high-paying field.
Qualify for high-paying jobs in UX design
UX designers make technology easier and more enjoyable for people to use. They design products and tools so that they are more useful and accessible for users.
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UX Design Certificate
This fully online program provides the skills you need for an entry-level job in UX design, even if you don't have prior experience.
Get startedYou’ll learn about:
- Developing personas, user stories, and user journey maps
- Conducting usability studies
- Creating wireframes and prototypes
- Testing and iterating on designs
- Building a professional portfolio
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The foundations of UX design
Explore the foundational concepts of UX design, including user-centered design, the design process, and accessibility. Identify common job responsibilities of entry-level UX designers and other teams you might work with. And start developing a professional presence online.
The full certificate program includes:

Hands-on activities

Quizzes and assignments

Regular assessments
Get on the fast track to high paying jobs with top employers
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Flexible learning
Prepare for a new career in 3-6 months. No relevant experience or degrees required.
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Free career support
Certificate graduates in the US will gain access to CareerCircle, which offers personalized coaching, mock interviews, and resume-building tools.
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Connect with top employers
Use CareerCircle’s exclusive job board to connect directly with employers looking to hire Google Career Certificate graduates.
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"The Google certificate prepared me well for practical challenges and interviews. It gave me confidence in my skills and truly has changed my life. It has set me up so that I can be totally self-sufficient with a family."
ARMANDO
Google UX Design Certificate graduate
Frequently asked questions
User experience (UX) design is is the process of designing a good user experience by making, creating, and organizing the interfaces people interact with daily, like mobile apps, websites, smart watches, and physical products.
UX designers focus on the experience that people have while using products like websites, apps, and physical objects. UX designers make those everyday interactions more useful, usable, and accessible to users. The role of an entry-level UX designer might include coming up with ideas to address user problems, conducting research with users, and designing wireframes, mockups, and prototypes.
UX (user experience) design is the process of designing a good user experience by making, creating, and organizing the interfaces people interact with, including websites, apps, and products. UI (user interface) design focuses on the graphical interface that users interact with and how it works and responds to users, including navigational elements such as menus, buttons, and icons.
A UX designer learns skills to make user interactions with websites, mobile apps, and physical products more usable, equitable, enjoyable, and useful. UX design skills include the ability 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
- Build wireframes and prototypes
- Conduct UX research
- Create designs and prototypes
As the digital world continues to expand, companies are recognizing that good user experience is a necessity, which has led to UX design being a dynamic, high-paying field across many industries. UX designers spend their time making, creating, and organizing the interfaces people interact with daily, like mobile apps, websites, smart watches, and physical products. Their work ensures that these interfaces are easier and more enjoyable to use.
The Google UX Design Certificate is for anyone with an interest in helping to create better experiences for users of apps, websites, and physical products. No prior experience with design or specific tool is required for the Google UX Design Certificate.
When you enroll in the Google UX Design Certificate, you'll explore the design process, including empathizing with users, defining their pain points, coming up with ideas for design solutions, creating wireframes and prototypes, and testing designs to get feedback.
You'll learn these job-ready skills in our certificate program through interactive content (discussion prompts, quizzes, and activities) in under six months, with 5-10 hours of study a week. Along the way, you'll work through a curriculum designed with input from industry leaders and top employers, like Figma, Adobe XD, Deloitte, Cognizant and Accenture. You'll even create a portfolio that includes three projects to share with potential employers to showcase the skills you learned in this program.
After you've graduated from the program, you'll have access to career resources and be connected directly with employers hiring for open entry-level roles in UX design.
Figma and Adobe XD are the design tools taught in the Google UX Design Certificate program. Spreadsheets, word processing applications, and presentation applications will also be used. Throughout the program, you will create a professional portfolio, using the platform of your choice, to showcase your UX design work.
The courses included in the Google UX Design Certificate curriculum are...
- Foundations of User Experience (UX) Design
- Start the UX Design Process: Empathize, Define, and Ideate
- 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 for Social Good and Prepare for Jobs
The Google UX Design Certificate features practical training and hands-on activities to help you leverage AI for UX design. Learn from Google experts how to leverage AI to iterate on design ideas and generate compelling copy for your portfolio website. Earn a UX certificate and get on the fast-track to a new career.
All of our Google Career Certificates now include an optional new course, Accelerate Your Job Search with AI. Learn how to use AI to create a job search plan, elevator pitch, resume, and more.
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