User Experience and Web Design Certificate | UCSC Silicon Valley Extension

Certificate Description

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

Cost: $6,500 | International Tuition Cost

Required Credits: Total Required: 7–10 courses/17 units: Take 2 of the 5 core courses and the capstone course (5–7.5 units) and 4–7 elective credit courses (9.5–12 units). End with certificate of completion review.

Duration: A full-time student can complete the certificate in 9–12 months.

Courses

Course	Units	Winter	Spring
1. Recommended Prerequisites
Adobe Illustrator, Introduction	1.5
Adobe Photoshop	3.0
2. Core Courses - Two core courses required
Designing with Cascading Style Sheets: Fundamentals	2.0	+
HTML Fundamentals	2.0	+
User Experience Design Fundamentals	3.0
Visual Design for the Interactive Web	2.5
3. Elective Courses
Adobe Photoshop	3.0
Building Customized Websites with Wordpress	2.0
Designing User Experience for Smart Things, Virtual Reality and Wearable Technology	3.0
Designing with Cascading Style Sheets: Advanced	2.0
Designing with Cascading Style Sheets: Fundamentals	2.0	+
Graphic Design Fundamentals	2.0
HTML5: The Living Language	3.0		+
HTML Fundamentals	2.0	+
Introduction to Web Programming: JavaScript and PHP	2.0
Mobile Interface Design	3.0
User Experience Design, Advanced	3.0
User Experience Design Fundamentals	3.0
Visual Design for the Interactive Web	2.5
Web Technologies, Introduction	1.0
4. Capstone Course - Required as last course in certificate
Capstone User Experience Project	2.0
5. Required Certificate Review
User Experience and Web Design Certificate Completion Fee	None

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.

Recommended Course Sequence

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 the Capstone 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.

Program Chair

Certificate Program Chair

MIN WU, PhD, is the technical lead in front-end design and development at Cloud Lending Solutions. He is founding owner of Skill Trellis, LLC and worked eight years as principal interaction designer at Oracle. He has a master’s degree in Information Security and a doctorate in Security and Usability from MIT.

Certificate Program Advisory Committee

ARIN BHOWMICK, MA-Human-Computer Interaction
Vice President & Chief Design Officer
IBM Cloud

REJ SIDHARTHAN, MA-DES, Interaction
CEO & UX Strategist
Freshdesign

WILLY LAI, BA
Vice President of User Experience
Macy's

Declaring Candidacy

You can enroll in a certificate program any time during your studies.

Once you create your student account, you can enroll in a certificate program. Although you can enroll in a program at any time, the benefit of enrolling early is that it locks in your certificate requirements. This means that even if program requirements change, the requirements to complete your certificate will remain the same for you.

You must enroll in the certificate program before enrolling in the Certificate Completion Review.

You have a total of five years to complete all necessary courses in a certificate program.

All the necessary units in a certificate must be completed within a five-year window. The clock begins on the first day of your first course in the certificate program. For example, if you started a course on Sept. 5, 2017, you would have to complete all of the required units in this certificate by Sept. 4, 2022.

Enrolling in a certificate program does not trigger the beginning of the five-year window. It begins the first day of the first course that applies to a certificate program.
The Certificate Completion Review process does not have to occur within the five-year timeframe.

Certificate Inquiry Form

Speak to a student services representative.

(408) 861-3860

extension@ucsc.edu

User Experience and Web Design