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Certificate Description
"When you focus on the foundation, learning all the aspects of the user-centered design cycle and understanding usability issues, you will be prepared to wear the many hats that industry is asking of its UI/UX designers."
— Min Wu, Ph.D., Chair, User Experience and Web Design Certificate Program
Designing for your users
UCSC Silicon Valley Extension's newly revised User Experience and Web Design certificate program teaches you to anticipate user needs and design the look and feel of new products that are intuitive and easy to use. Learn customer analytics and behavior by working with a design team of peers. Explore different areas of focus to integrate your creativity with the most effective, best practices in the industry.
Areas of focus
- User experience design
- Visual design
- Design implementation
User Experience and Web Design certificate program objectives
- Understand the iterative and user-centered design process with the spiral model.
- Use the user-centered design strategies and methods to create highly effective, pleasurable, and usable products while meeting business goals and objectives.
- Understand and apply the design principles to create effective user interfaces for mobile devices and products that incorporate wearable technology.
- Be able to implement a design prototype using various prototyping tools.
- Be able to evaluate the user interface through user research and heuristic evaluation.
- Learn and apply the visual design principles to create engaging user interfaces.
- Be able to use HTML/CSS/JavaScript to prototype websites or single page web applications.
Future of Product Development, Virtual Reality & Wearable Technology
Eric Dorf, B.F.A., D.M.B.A., senior UX designer at Google and instructor, discuss designing for new surfaces and experiences—the evolution of the product designer, designing for new surfaces/experiences, how to be aware of new trends, and skill sets and design for integrated experiences. (Oct. 7, 2021)
Program Overview
Estimated Cost: Starting at $5,550. (You pay only for courses you enroll in.) | International Tuition Cost
Program Requirements: 6–7 courses (minimum 17 quarter units). Take 5 core courses (13 quarter units) and 2–3 elective courses (minimum 4 quarter units). End with a certificate of completion review.
Minimum Hours of Instruction: Minimum 170 hours of instruction.
Estimated Duration: A full-time student can complete the certificate in 9–12 months.
Courses
1. Core Course(s): Part A - All Required
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Quarter Units: 2.0
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UEWD.X411
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Quarter Units: 3.0
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UEWD.X416
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2. Core Course(s): Part B - One Required or Take Both & Other Part B Course Will Count as an Elective)
UEWD.X412
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3. Electives:
UEWD.X420
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UEWD.X419
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UEWD.X410
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UEWD.X412
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UEWD.X415
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4. Capstone Course: Required
UEWD.X490
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5. Completion Review:
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Meet Our Instructors
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"The capstone project course was my favorite course for sure. I got to exercise my skill of coding but still do design. Everything we learned we got to put into it."
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"The class involved whiteboard sessions and collaboration projects which really prepared me well to start working in the industry and tackle UX design interviews."
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"The capstone project course was my favorite course for sure. I got to exercise my skill of coding but still do design. Everything we learned we got to put into it."
— Jumar Balacy
UX Designer
Program: User Experience and Web Design
"The class involved whiteboard sessions and collaboration projects which really prepared me well to start working in the industry and tackle UX design interviews."
— Agnieszka Zimolag
Product Design, Cloud at IonQ
Program: User Experience and Web Design
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Recommended Course Sequence
Flexible course sequence
- CHOICE
- If you are familiar with Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop products, most courses may be taken in any order if you have the prerequisites for each course.
- ELECTIVES
- Note that while you must take all three courses in Core Courses A, you just need one from Core Courses B—Mobile Interface Design or User Experience Design Fundamentals. You are welcome to take the other Core B course as an elective toward your certificate.
- CAPSTONE
- Your final course should be the Capstone User Experience Project.
Substitutions
New students should attend the Information Session to receive course sequence information
To receive your certificate
Requisite Knowledge
Please review the course descriptions to ensure that you have taken necessary prerequisites or meet the requirements through job experience or previous education. Before you begin the program, it’s recommended that you take Adobe Illustrator, Introduction and Adobe Photoshop or have the equivalent knowledge and experience.
Advisory Board
Certificate Program Chair
MIN WU, PhD, senior staff software engineer at ServiceNow, has over 15 years of research and practical experience in the areas of human-computer interaction, user interface design, web security, collaboration and privacy, web application and automation, and social networking.
Certificate Program Advisory Committee
ARIN BHOWMICK, MA-Human-Computer Interaction
Chief Design Officer
IBM Products
REJ SIDHARTHAN, MA-DES, Interaction
CEO & UX Strategist
Freshdesign
WILLY LAI, BA
Chief Design Officer
Haggleland
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