Designing for your users

UCSC Silicon Valley Extension's newly revised, four-track 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. Four tracks:

• Visual Design
• User Experience Design
• Design Implementation
• Site Management

User Experience And Web Design certificate program objectives:

• Use GIF, JPEG and PNG compressions
• Work with color online
• Design with HTML, CSS, JavaScript and PHP
• Communicate brand values using color, typography, layout and imagery
• Launch, build and administer e-commerce sites
• Design using the Adobe Creative Cloud suite
• Create user interfaces that incorporate wearable technology

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 takeAdobe Illustrator, Introduction andAdobe Photoshop or have the equivalent knowledge and experience.

Flexible course sequence

If you are familiar with Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop products, most courses may be taken in any order is you have prerequisites to each course. Your final course should be theCapstone User Experience Project.

Substitutions

You may take one elective outside the certificate curriculum, if you receive prior approval from the Academic Services Department.

New students should attend the Information Session to receive course sequence information

To receive your certificate

Upon completion of the course sequence you may request your User Experience and Web Design Certificate Completion Review.