User experience (UX) design is the process of designing a good user experience by making, creating, and organising 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 organising 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…

• Empathise 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 recognising that good user experience is a necessity, which has led to UX design being a high-growth and in-demand field. UX designers spend their time making, creating, and organising 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 enrol in the Google UX Design Certificate, you'll explore the design process, including empathising 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: 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
• Responsive Web Design in Adobe XD
• Design for Social Good and Prepare for Jobs
• Accelerate Your Job Search with AI

Yes! The Google UX Design Certificate courses are 100-percent online learning. Start right away and learn on your own schedule.

The Google UX Design Certificate is available globally in English on Coursera, a global online learning platform that offers access to online courses. Google has worked with Coursera to make Google Career Certificates available on their platform. We are working to make the certificates available in more languages.

Some of the different types of UX design jobs include...

• User experience (UX) designer
• User interface (UI) designer
• Interaction designer
• Visual designer
• Product designer

We're proud to partner with some of Australia's leading employers to connect graduates with relevant job opportunities. Companies like Canva, IAG, Optus, Woolworths Group, Accenture, Omnicom Media Group and Auspost are part of the Google Career Certificates Employer Consortium in Australia and are interested in receiving applications from graduates.

In Australia, the subscription cost is $39 USD 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 enrolment options.

If you are interested in financial assistance for the Google UX Design Certificate, you may be eligible for financial aid via Coursera through the course page. Recipients of financial aid will have full access to course content and assignments required to earn a certificate. To apply, go to the certificate course page on Coursera and click the “Financial aid available” link next to the “Enroll” button.

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 organisations and platforms like Figma, among others, consulted and collaborated on material.