Google UX Design Certificate
Get started in the high-paying field of user experience (UX) design with a professional certificate from Google. Learn how to build wireframes and prototypes, empathise with users, conduct research to test your designs, and discover how to effectively utilise AI in UX design.
Unlock your career potential
Study at your own pace and complete your certificate in 3-6 months with about 10 hours of flexible study time a week.
Learn from experts who have decades of experience and can share the most up-to-date knowledge.
Build real-world skills through hands-on assessments and projects based on actual on-the-job scenarios.
Frequently asked questions
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.
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
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.
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
The Google UX Design Certificate was designed and built by subject-matter experts and senior practitioners at Google. This certificate has been created to equip learners with theoretical and practical knowledge and real-life problem-solving skills to be successful in an entry-level user experience (UX) designer job. Expert industry organizations and platforms like Figma, among others, consulted and collaborated on material.
As the digital world continues to expand, companies are recognizing that good user experience is a necessity, which has led to UX design being an in-demand field. 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.
In Australia the subscription cost is $39 USD2 per month after an initial 7-day trial period at no cost. Google Career Certificates are completely self-paced, and many learners complete their Certificate in three to six months.
In other countries where Google Career Certificates are available, your cost may be lower. To see the exact cost in your local currency, please visit the Coursera page and view the enrollment options.
1Lightcast™ Global Job Postings (2024: Jan. 1, 2024 - Dec. 31, 2024). US Treasury Reporting Rates of Exchange, USD to AUD, 1 USD = 1.59 AUD (Feb. 21, 2025)
2Final pricing is set by Coursera; standard fee of US$39 may vary in local currency. Additional fees may apply. See Coursera Terms of Use for more details.
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