Applicable to every professional field, the User Experience (UX) Certificate provides a thorough education on how to develop compelling and strategic user experiences. Working with industry experts, students learn the latest strategies, techniques, and technologies to deploy world-class user experiences in a fast-growing digital economy. Format: Online 

This program is perfect for:

- Designers, engineers, information architects, writers, sociologists and entrepreneurs who want to learn to develop compelling user experiences

- Professionals with no previous UX background who wish to incorporate UX principles and practices into their current career

- Individuals who want to create successful, innovative products and design solutions

- Those interested in a multidisciplinary design thinking approach, used to strengthen familiar, often undervalued, skills

What you can learn:

- Discover information architecture principles, responsive design, mobile user interface design, effective user research, testing & analytics

- Learn cutting-edge UX design tools such as Figma, Adobe XD, and InVision

- Acquire job-ready skills and interface design standards that power some of the world’s top websites and applications

- Develop user personas, while applying foundational UX principles to mock prototypes to start your portfolio

Design your future

The User Experience Certificate is perfect for professionals wanting to make a career change and learn in-demand skills from UCLA-vetted expert instructors. The program lets students get hands-on with UX design tools while teaching concepts like user empathy to understand human-centered designs. From applying these principles to creating mock UX prototypes, students will learn to flex their artistic skills while examining user interaction flows and testing end-to-end usability. 

How does payment work?

You pay per class as you enroll each quarter. The average price of one 11-week course is $760. The entire cost of the program is estimated to be $6,500. That includes all course fees, materials and the certificate candidacy fee.