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Design a User Experience for Social Good and Prepare for Jobs is the seventh and final course in a program that will equip you with the skills you need to become an entry-level UX designer. In this course, you will design a dedicated mobile app and a responsive website focused on social good. You will showcase all that you’ve learned during the certificate program to complete the design process from beginning to end: empathizing with users, defining their pain points, coming up with ideas for design solutions, creating wireframes and prototypes, and testing designs to get feedback. By the end of this course, you will have a new cross-platform design project to include in your professional UX portfolio. This course will also prepare you to land your first job as a UX designer. You’ll learn how to interview for entry-level UX design positions. You’ll get tips from Googlers based on their own interview experiences and their unique perspectives as hiring managers. And, you’ll polish the professional UX portfolio you’ve been building throughout the program so that it’s ready for job applications. Current UX designers and researchers at Google will serve as your instructors, and you will complete hands-on activities that simulate real-world UX design scenarios. Learners who complete the seven courses in this certificate program should be equipped to apply for entry-level jobs as UX designers. By the end of this course, you will be able to: - Apply each step of the UX design process (empathize, define, ideate, prototype, test) to create designs focused on social good. - Identify the differences between dedicated mobile apps and responsive web apps. - Understand progressive enhancement and graceful degradation approaches for designing across devices. - Build wireframes, mockups, and low-fidelity and high-fidelity prototypes. - Add a new design project to your professional UX portfolio. - Create your portfolio of design work for job applications. - Join and participate in online UX communities. - Interview for an entry-level UX design job. - Determine if freelance design work is a good career fit for you. This course is suitable for beginner-level UX designers who have completed the previous six courses of the Google UX Design Certificate....

Top reviews

VP

Aug 23, 2022

Great experience, this certificate help me to understand from start to finish the UX design process. Furthermore, how to put those skills into practice with real case studies. I highly recommended it.

KS

May 29, 2023

It is always great to learn new skills. My journey in completing the UX DESIGN course from Google was super good as the course was perfectly designed for learners with curious and creative minds.

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By Jordan S

Sep 26, 2023

Incredibly informative! Invaluable! You're given all the tools to confidently start you career change and even pick up freelancing. You learn Figma and Adobe XD and the resources are so valuable! The completion of this cert is a very proud moment for me and I can't wait to keep growing!

By Oscar G

Sep 6, 2023

It was a challenge in doing especially on an old computer and tablet. Some courses needed more time, as well as some assignments felt more than just 30 minutes or 1 hour. overall it was a good experience and I will recommend others in trying out Coursera in furthering their education.

By alexis l

Dec 25, 2021

This is the best best course for starting out with UX/UI Design. You learn the basics and the more advance stuff. You have the nessesary tools for everything and it is all well organize. Now, you have to put all the work but, it is easy to do if you contrate and if you are organize.

By Trang D T

Jan 1, 2023

One of the creditable courses about UX design, I truly appreciate the efforts of Google team to create this course for aspiring UX designers. 1 suggestion, I think the section about writing portfolio in Week 4 should go to Week 5, for a cohesive knowledge about writing a portfolio

By Denis K

Jan 8, 2024

It was a great final course! There were so many useful tips and advises for future work, as well as preparation materials that I am now fully confident about my next steps in both my freelancing career and job application at a design agency. Thank you so much, Google and Coursera!

By Zeinab M

Aug 12, 2022

this course was great well as !

there is some thing about all peer assignments , sometimes the grades are unfair and with no reason they decrease your grade. Also comment section is not useful since they just write one word to pass the assignment.

I hope my comments be helpful .

By Rupali S

Oct 15, 2022

Absolutely worth it as one gets to do a hands-on project on the complete design process from start to end along with responsiveness. The step by step guide for designing a portfolio & applting for jobs is very helpful. Truely complete preparation for getting job ready!!

By Whitney B

Aug 15, 2022

This course was presented in a clear and detailed manner. The designers made sure they reinforced each new concept and provided you with resources to reference to further nail down the material. I feel confident that I have the skills to pursue a career as a UX designer!

By Revathi

Apr 2, 2023

I am very much excited when I start this course. Throughout the course, the excitement not went down because the course syllabus was so engaging.

The assignments and the weekly challenges are more interesting and gave me a clear way of understanding. Thanks to Coursera.

By Stefan G

Apr 9, 2023

This is an excellent course for starting as a UX Designer. It gives an overview of a lot of facets of UX Design that is immediately usable in real life.

The course does take quite some time but is well worth the effort.

Also gives a lot of links for further learning.

By Ben B

Jul 23, 2022

A fantastic introduction the industry. Google have considered everything, presenting it in a clear & concise way. At a much more affordable price than the majority of courses available. I would thoroughly recommend to anyone considering entering the profession

By Shubham K B

Mar 25, 2022

To good to be part of all 7 courses of uiux by google, its easy to understand and helpful, with example everywhere, and also other reviewer studends also to corrected and give correct points, on what you do. i really can give six stars, if here is option. :-)

By Tamara H

Nov 6, 2021

Thank you, Coursera and Grow with Google. It was challenging, but I learned so much from all the Instructors. Everyone brought something different to the table, and I appreciate that. So thank you, Instructors, for teaching it so well. I enjoyed it.

By Vita B

Sep 29, 2021

Couldnt wish anything more for better ending of the course! Entire specialization was done on an incredibly high-level and the amount of useful materials are highly appreciated as well. Totally recommend this course for anyone starting their UX career.

By Cynthia H

Sep 3, 2022

Es un curso magnifico para el cierre y para completar un portafolio profesional, toda la información es super interesante e importante, todos los instructores son muy buenos y lo que aprendí me va a servir mucho en cualquier carrera, muchas gracias!!

By Akash S

Jul 26, 2022

A proper professional course. Those who have completed this course will say the same thing, this is the perfect guidance needed to initiate a career as a UX Designer. I learned a lot from this course and will encourage others to complete this course.

By Jamie E

Apr 29, 2022

Excellent course. This third project was tedious, but necessary in helping you to continue sharpening your design skills. The jobs section was particularly helpful as well - they gave a lot of gems. Pay attention during this section in particular.

By Emmanuel E

Jan 26, 2024

A very impactful course because it educates a designer on the essence of putting him/herself out there, either to share their works and be discovered by recruiters or to offer a helping hand or piece of advice to those that are in need of them.

By Abdulrahman B

Nov 28, 2023

Joining This Professional was life-changing for me as someone who is trying his dream career and Hopefully working at Google one day. Thank you Coursera and Thank you Google for such a wonderful journey of learning that I will never forget. ❤️

By PHANG K

Dec 29, 2021

A great course for UX beginners! Worked on three hands-on projects throughout this course. The course structure is more towards UX rather than UI, so better equip yourself with some fundamental design knowledge before diving into this course.

By Brad B

Nov 24, 2022

I liked the pace, like that I could work on it when I needed to and I got a lot out of this one. The peer grading thing will always be a hurdle at times, but it's the nature of things really and isn't the worst thing to have to go through.

By Viktor K

Mar 23, 2022

Excelente curso, cuesta tiempo y esfuerzo completarlo pero te da una gran satisfacción llegar a la meta. Además de la información acerca de cómo responder a entrevistas es súper útil. Me ayudó mucho en la última entrevista a la que asistí.

By Kristina H

Aug 14, 2023

I've learned a lot in this final course of the program! It has a lot of info on job hunting and portfolio presentation tips that are really useful! Also, I made my third project and finished my own portfolio which is a big accomplishment!

By Shahneela_adnan A

Sep 12, 2023

This course is challenging and requires efforts at your end. The comprehensive and compact guidelines of the instructor help you and the motivation to complete it to have the hard-earned reward urges you to do it quickly and efficiently.

By Mhd Y P P B

Oct 3, 2022

This is my last course with the Google UX Design program, I really got a lot of new understanding from here and I hope, I can have a career in the technology industry. Thank you very much to all Instructors in this program. Thank you