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Get on the Fast Track to a Career in UX Design

User experience (UX) design is one of the most in-demand fields in tech—and now, you can start learning it directly from Google experts. With the Google UX Design Professional Certificate on Coursera, you’ll gain in-demand design skills, hands-on experience, and portfolio-ready projects. No prior degree or experience required.

This professional certificate includes eight courses total. Below, we outline the journey across these modules—each one a stepping stone to launching your UX design career.

✨ Course 1: Foundations of User Experience (UX) Design

Introduction to UX, design thinking, and job roles

Key principles: user-centered design, accessibility, equity-focused design

Begin designing your first mobile app interface

✨ Course 2: Start the UX Design Process: Empathize, Define, Ideate

Empathize with users and understand their needs

Create personas, empathy maps, and journey maps

Define problems and brainstorm creative solutions

✨ Course 3: Build Wireframes and Low-Fidelity Prototypes

Learn Figma and Adobe XD tools

Create low-fidelity mockups and interactive prototypes

Prepare for usability testing

✨ Course 4: Conduct UX Research and Test Early Concepts

Explore usability testing techniques

Conduct moderated and unmoderated studies

Analyze feedback and iterate on your design

✨ Course 5: Create High-Fidelity Designs and Prototypes in Figma

Turn low-fidelity prototypes into polished designs

Apply design systems and UI patterns

Prepare mockups for developer handoff

✨ Course 6: Responsive Web Design in Adobe XD

Design websites that work across mobile, tablet, and desktop

Learn about grids, breakpoints, and adaptive UI

Build responsive prototypes in Adobe XD

✨ Course 7: Design a User Experience for Social Good & Prepare for Jobs

Apply your full design process to a UX challenge

Create a portfolio-ready end-to-end project

Prepare your UX resume, case studies, and job interview materials

✨ Course 8: Build Your UX Portfolio with Google Experts

Finalize and refine your UX portfolio

Collect feedback from peers and mentors

Showcase three complete case studies ready for job applications

📅 Flexible Learning, Real Results

These courses are 100% online, self-paced, and taught by Google UX experts. You’ll also receive AI-guided insights throughout your learning journey.

🚀 Ready to Get Started?

Join thousands of learners building new careers in UX design. Start today and finish at your own pace. Your design career begins with the first click.

Start Learning Now with Google UX Design on Coursera →

🧠 What You’ll Learn in the Google UX Design Certificate

Master the UX Design Process:
Empathize with users, define pain points, ideate solutions, build wireframes and prototypes, and test iteratively.
Conduct Effective UX Research:
Learn to plan and conduct user research, interviews, usability studies, and analyze results to inform design.
Build Inclusive, User-Centered Designs:
Apply accessibility principles and equity-focused strategies to create designs that serve everyone.
Create a Job-Ready UX Portfolio:
Complete real-world projects to showcase your skills in a professional portfolio for entry-level UX roles.

Coursera Plus provides access to most of our catalog, including popular Professional Certificates from Google and Meta. The following beginner-level Certificates are popular with learners, prepare learners for an in-demand role, and are worth highlighting as some of the great course options available to learners who subscribe to Coursera Plus:

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Courses, specializations and certificates for design careers

Coursera is committed to ensuring learners everywhere have access to world-class learning to gain new skills or start a new career. Individuals with design skills are in high demand, and there is a wide range of roles available for those with an education in design. All of the Design courses and Specializations herein are included in Coursera Plus, our annual subscription that provides access to over 3,000 courses, Specializations, Professional Certificates, and Guided Projects for just $399/year.

Popular Design Courses

Graphic Design Specialization from CalArts
Design and Make Infographics (Project-Centered Course) from Michigan State University
Graphic Design Elements for Non-Designers Specialization from University of Colorado Boulder
UI/UX Design Specialization from CalArts
Interaction Design Specialization from UC San Diego
User Experience Research and Design Specialization from the University of Michigan

Coursera is dedicated to offering world-class content that teaches our learners in-demand skills and knowledge. Our new content is exciting and worth sharing, from a timely course about the upcoming U.S. election to a new Specialization on Generative Adversarial Networks. The germ cool team is taking over 30 classes and specializations on Coursera. The best thing about the coursework on Coursera is each course is taught by a qualified instructor or team of instructors. Students can stop a video lecture anytime and reverse or forward to ensure they fully understand the discussed topic. Top universities worldwide offer courses, including but not limited to Yale, Duke, UNC, Berkeley School of music, University of Michigan, University of Pennsylvania, University of Virginia, HEC Paris, and goldsmiths of London, etc.

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) Specialization from DeepLearning.AI
How Technology is Shaping Democracy and the 2020 Election from Stanford University
Agile Leadership Specialization from the University of Colorado
SAS Statistical Business Analyst Professional Certificate from SAS
Google Cloud Security Professional Certificate from Google Cloud
Google Cloud Networking Professional Certificate from Google Cloud
ICPM Certified Supervisor Professional Certificate from the Institute of Certified Professional Managers
Introduction to Blockchain Specialization from the Association of International Certified Professional Accountants

Coursera partners with top universities and companies to make world-class educational content available to our learners. With courses covering everything from machine learning to food and health to women’s health and human rights, Stanford University continues to deliver diverse content from thought leaders and experts. Stanford’s newest course, How Software Ate Finance, dives into fintech businesses and the future of financial services.

New and Popular Courses from Stanford University

How Software Ate Finance

Machine Learning
Stanford Introduction to Food and Health
Algorithms
Writing in the Sciences
International Women’s Health and Human Rights
Child Nutrition and Cooking
AI in Healthcare
Game Theory
Probabilistic Graphical Models

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