International Certificate in User Experience

Master UX Design + UI Design + Product Design + Business Design.
Become a Full Stack Designer

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Program Overview

This UX/UI design course will help you master the concepts of design and tools, by also encapsulating the elements of both – product and business design. The UX certification will be a validation of your skills and expertise in user research, user journey mapping, UX audit and the Principles of Visual Design.

Key Highlights

"A benefit of incorporating user-centric design is that it solves problems and addresses user needs through well-designed experiences thereby increasing customer loyalty and satisfaction."

Gaurav Mathur

Head, User Experience (UX) Design, Myntra

150+ Hours of Learning

15+ Case Studies and Assignments

Exclusive career management cell

1:1 Mentorship from Design Experts

Weekly Live Labs + Clinic Sessions

5 Industry Projects(Skill Hackathons)

Mock Interviews & Profile Building with Design Hiring Managers

Access to study material post course.

"A benefit of incorporating user-centric design is that it solves problems and addresses user needs through well-designed experiences thereby increasing customer loyalty and satisfaction."

Gaurav Mathur

Head, User Experience (UX) Design, Myntra

Top Skills You Will Learn

In this international UX certification course you will learn, User Research, Low Fidelity Prototyping, High Fidelity Prototyping, User Journey Mapping, Information Architecture, Affinity Mapping, User Testing & Design Validation, UX Audit, Principles of Visual Design.

Who Is This Program for?

Aspiring Designers, Graphics Designers, Visual Designers, UI&UX Designers, Product Managers, Project Managers, Program Managers, Q/A Managers, Managers, Solutions Architect, Software Developers, Business Analysts, Consultants, Entrepreneurs

Job Opportunities

By signing up for this UX/UI design course you can work as UX Designer, User Researcher, Digital Product Designer, Software Product Designer, Product Designer, Senior Product Designer, Head Of User Experience, UX Director

Minimum Eligibility

The applicant should have at least 4 years of work experience in a technical or business-related role to pursue user experience certification.
An innate desire to create value for the user which implies soft skills like Creativity, Persuasion, Collaboration, Adaptability and Emotional Intelligence.

Top Skills You Will Learn

Who Is This User Experience Certification Program for?

Job Opportunities

By signing up for this product designer certification course you can work as UX Designer, User Researcher, Digital Product Designer, Software Product Designer, Product Designer, Senior Product Designer, Head Of User Experience, UX Director

Minimum Eligibility

Tools Covered

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Adobe XD

InVision

Illustrator

Figma

User Experience Certification Program

Get a certificate issued by the C. T. Bauer College of Business at the University of Houston and Institute of Product Leadership.

Bauer College’s Cyvia and Melvyn Wolff Center for Entrepreneurship ranked No. 2 in U.S. on the Top 25 Best Undergrad Programs for Entrepreneurs in 2019. (Top 10 since 2007; No. 1 in 2008, 2010 and 2011)

Course audited and approved by the Bauer College.

Get an Industry accepted user experience certification from IPL that enhances your professional equity and bolsters your career profile. The ICUX-Flex certification provides learners with instant recognition among business peers while establishing their skill credentials as hands-on practitioners.

Preparing you for Global Certification

One Program, Ten Outcomes

Develop strong design acumen in UX, UI, business design and frameworks to deliver delighting product experiences.

Develop strong customer insights & identify customer needs, wants & desires using Design Thinking & Market Research frameworks.

Learn to do Iterative experimentation design and rapid prototyping using industry tools to better define Minimally Viable Product (MVP).

Understand how to hire, manage and grow Design teams. Establish better interlock with Product Management, Engineering & Management team

Define scalable interaction models and user flows across desktop, mobile, watch, TV and voice touch points for digital products & services.

Develop an information architecture plan, translate it into intuitive navigation, layouts. Test and validate the plan with reverse card sorting.

Craft high fidelity visual prototype & designs to communicate product features & ideas internally and externally with customers, driving specifications for engineering.

Understand pricing and monetization models to build better customer engagement and driving design to achieve business objectives.

Identify key opportunities for new concepts generation by defining the users journey in the experience.

Develop usability tests & brand audits for moderated, unmoderated remote testing to identify issues that impede experience or opportunities for delightful user experience.

Its very simple - those with actionable skills will get promoted faster. End to End Understanding of the business context, customer context and innovation context is key for decision making senior roles.

Amit Phadnis

Chief Digital Officer, GE Healthcare

Syllabus

Best-in-class content by leading faculty and industry leaders in the form of videos, cases and projects, assignments and live sessions

Core Courses

Integrated set of core competencies mapped to Design Careers. Courses marked in yellow are possible to skip once you clear its proficiency test.

DES 401 DESIGNER MINDSET AND FUNDAMENTALS

Design Process

■ Intro to UX & Design Thinking
■ Prototypes, Feedback, & Critique

Design Thinking

■ Design Thinking and Art
■ Principles of Design Thinking
■ Design Thinking Mindset
■ Design Thinking Toolset

Rapid & High Fidelity prototyping

■ User Research
■ Competitive Research
■ Synthesizing Research & Creating Personas
■ Paper Prototyping & Usability Testing Basics
■ User Stories & Feature Prioritization
■ Information Architecture & Navigation
■ Wireframing
■ High Fidelity Prototyping
■ Usability Testing

DES 403 INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE

Paper & Computer Card Sort

■ Creating Paper Card Sort
■ Running Sessions
■ Analysis of Data
■ From Cards to Knowledge

Validating Information Architecture

■ Abstract Information Architecture
■ Reverse Sorting

Optimising Information Architecture

■ Creating Site architecture
■ Optimizing for Google
■ Components of on-site SEO

Finalising and Testing Information Architecture

■ Site Indexability and Crawlability
■ Site maps, Site tags
■ Term frequency, Inverse Document Frequency

DES 405 VISUAL DESIGN

Design Aesthetics and elements

■ Power of color
■ Using texture
■ Layouts and structures
■ Communicating with right Fonts

Visual Design Principles

■ Background patterns
■ Using Contrast, Fonts, Hyperlinks, Gradation

Data Visualization and Layout graphics

■ Gestalt Principles
■ Using icons, illustrations, grids and information density

Style Guides

■ Brand and company philosophy
■ Defining Style guidelines
■ Communicating UX standards

DES 402 USER RESEARCH

Toolkits and Best Practices

■ Usability Testing
■ Interviewing
■ Card Sorts
■ Eye-tracking and Click Testing
■ Multivariate & A/B Testing
■ Desirability Studies
■ Heuristic Studies
■ Surveys
■ Personas
■ Focus groups
■ Participatory Design Workshops

User Research methodologies

■ Quantitative vs. Qualitative research
■ Agile vs. Waterfall
■ Behaviour vs. Attitudinal
■ Generative vs. Evaluative

Conducting Interviews

■ Participant recruitment, selection, scheduling & incentives
■ Planning interviews
■ Crafting questions

Usability testing

■ Moderated vs. Unmoderated usability tests
■ Using usability tests to explore

Analyse, Interpret, Present

■ Analyze data
■ Interpreting results
■ Presenting & incorporating research findings

Lean Experimentation

■ Assumption building and Prioritization
■ Hypothesis writing
■ Framing experiments
■ MVPs and experimentation techniques
■ Analyzing lean experiments

DES 404 INTERACTION DESIGN & PROTOTYPING

Stages of Interaction Design

■ LxD model
■ 5 stages of interaction design

Interaction Types

■ Inputs, gestures, voice, Sensors
■ Microinteractions – Motion, Sound, Haptics
■ Psychology – Gestalt Principles
■ Navigation, Structure, Flow and interface

Multidevice design

■ Designing for Mobile or tablet
■ Designing for Watch
■ Designing for TV
■ Designing for Voice
■ Scalable Interaction Models

Storyboarding

■ Writing Scenarios
■ From Scenario to storyboard

Prototyping

■ Low-Fidelity and High-Fidelity Prototyping
■ Prototyping techniques
■ Testing and evaluating Prototypes
■ Prototype walkthroughs

Design Patterns

■ Anti-patterns, dark patterns
■ CMS Systems, WordPress and Bootstrap
■ Material Design
■ iOS Interface Guidelines

Elective Courses (Optional)

Additional Access for the Avid learner. Not mandatory for the Global Certification Requirement but good for additional Career Acceleration

MGMT 401 Product Management Fundamentals

Market Research Process

■ Market Research Process
■ Qualitative Research Methods
■ Insight Mining and Developing Value Proposition Method : Focus Group
■ Creating Customers Archetypes from Customer Interactions and Customer Interviewing Best Practices
■ Ethnography and Empathy

Minimum Viable Product (MVP)

■ Risks
■ Assumptions and Hypothesis
■ Experiments and POC vs Prototypes vs MVP vs Pilot

Product Planning

■ Idea generation & feasibility Analysis
■ Market analysis & business potential assessment
■ Target segment & buyer behavior tracking
■ Prototype testing & commercialization

Productizing Process Management

■ Roles & Interlock – PM, PO, PMM, Careers
■ New Product Introduction vs Commercialization
■ Pricing, packaging & monetization

Design Thinking and Customer Centricity

Design Thinking Approach

■ Empathize, Define, Ideate, Prototype, Test
■ How to be a Design Thinker
■ Defining the Problem
■ Customer centric innovation

Empathy Frameworks & Techniques

■ Fly on the wall
■ What-How-Why
■ Roleplaying
■ Empathy mapping
■ Pain-Gain Analysis
■ Analogous empathy
■ Extreme users
■ Journey map
■ Error analysis

Ideation & Prototyping

■ Ideation Models – Impose constraints, Historical analysis, Power of Ten, Brainstorming
■ Prototyping Methods – Wireframes, Low Fidelity, High Fidelity, Scaled Prototyping, Storyboarding
■ Assumption & Hypothesis Design

Typical Learning Path for each course

Weekly Faculty Sessions

Plus Curated Video Lessons

Assignments

Self & Group Submissions

Capstone Project

Live Presentations with Jury

Certificate

Course Certificate

Average Days to complete each course

Instructors & Mentors

Learn from India’s leading Product Practitioners.

Eewei Chen

Senior UX Director,
Virtusa

Gaurav Mathur

Head, User Experience (UX) Design, Myntra

Anina Lambrechts

UX Design Specialist & Founder
Ten Slash One

Saibal Datta

Founder & Chief Designer - UX/UI,
GDD - a product design studio

Charlie Weston

Design Lead
Northern Trust Corporation

Bhavishya Garg

Head of UX
MX Player

Chetty Arun

Design Manager,
Razorpay

Eewei Chen

Senior UX Director,
Virtusa

Gaurav Mathur

User Experience (UX) Design,
Myntra

Anina Lambrechts

UX Design Specialist & Founder,
Ten Slash One

Saibal Datta

Founder & Chief Designer - UX/UI,
GDD - a product design studio

Charlie Weston

Design Lead,
Northern Trust Corporation

Bhavishya Garg

Head of UX,
MX Player

Chetty Arun

Design Manager,
Razorpay

Industry Projects and Assignments

Learn through real-life projects and assignments across industries

The ICUX-Flex Advantage

Strong hand-holding with dedicated support to guide you in your journey in User Experience.

Globally Recognized Certification Program

Get Certified in User Experience by Asia’s first Technology B-School.

Assurance of Skills v/s Knowledge

Rigorous syllabus focused on skill building & implementation through projects & presentations to connect the dots of data, business & digital innovation.

Focussed on Career Acceleration

Deeper focus on industry-relevant case studies & Live Industry Projects to build the confidence & connections to accelerate into senior roles.

Learning by Doing

Work on real world industry challenges and projects to build skills and present to hiring managers at skillathons.

Career Impact

Fastest Way to Understand the nuances of end to end Product Design, UX & UI Design with simple and yet complete coverage on concepts, frameworks to interlock with Design teams

Jaya S, Product Manager, VMWareClass of 2018

Moving from a Graphic Design role in UX & Product Design, the course helped me gain confidence and structure for things i was already doing intuitively and adhocly.

Sudha M, Designer, RazorPayClass of 2019

Career Impact

Moving from a Graphic Design role in UX & Product Design, the course helped me gain confidence and structure for things i was already doing intuitively and adhocly.

Sudha M, Designer, RazorPayClass of 2019

Fastest Way to Understand the nuances of end to end Product Design, UX & UI Design with simple and yet complete coverage on concepts, frameworks to interlock with Design teams

Jaya S, Product Manager, VMWareClass of 2018

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Upfront Payment

$ 1299

(Includes US $450 admissions fees)

With a milestone based learning unlock the course today!

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Features / Benefits

Upfront Payment

$ 1299

(Includes US $450 admissions fees)

With a milestone based learning unlock the course today!

International Certificate in User Experience

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5 months

Faculty + Online

Unlimited 1:1 Coaching

Program Overview

150+ Hours of Learning

15+ Case Studies and Assignments

1:1 Mentorship from Design Leaders

Mock Interviews & Profile Building with Design Hiring Managers

Exclusive career management cell

Weekly Live Labs + Clinic Sessions

5 Industry Projects(Skill Hackathons)

Access to study material post course.

150+ Hours of Learning

15+ Case Studies and Assignments

Exclusive career management cell

1:1 Mentorship from Design Experts

Weekly Live Labs + Clinic Sessions

5 Industry Projects(Skill Hackathons)

Mock Interviews & Profile Building with Design Hiring Managers

Access to study material post course.

Top Skills You Will Learn

Who Is This Program for?

Job Opportunities

Minimum Eligibility

Sketch

Adobe XD

InVision

Illustrator

Figma

User Experience Certification Program

Preparing you for Global Certification

One Program, Ten Outcomes

Download the program brochure for in-depth information

Weekly Faculty Sessions

Assignments

Capstone Project

Certificate

Globally Recognized Certification Program

Assurance of Skills v/s Knowledge

Focussed on Career Acceleration

Learning by Doing

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