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About the Course

Foundations of User Experience (UX) Design is the first of a series of seven courses that will equip you with the skills needed to apply to entry-level jobs in user experience design. UX designers focus on the interactions that people have with products like websites, mobile apps, and physical objects. UX designers make those everyday interactions usable, enjoyable, and accessible. The role of an entry-level UX designer might include empathizing with users, defining their pain points, coming up with ideas for design solutions, creating wireframes, prototypes, and mockups, and testing designs to get feedback. 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. No previous experience is necessary. By the end of this course, you will be able to: - Define the field of UX and explain why it’s important for consumers and businesses. - Understand foundational concepts in UX design, such as user-centered design, the design thinking framework, accessibility, and equity-focused design. - Identify the factors that contribute to great user experience design. - Review common job responsibilities of entry-level UX designers and teams that they work with. - Explore job opportunities and career paths within the field of user experience. - Explain why design sprints are an important and useful part of a UX designer’s work. - Describe common UX research methods. - Identify and account for biases in UX research....

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the course is quite comprehensive, but the first two courses mainly focus on what design is, not on how to design. starting with a project would be more affective and the course would be less boring.

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It's been a great start, however creating a portfolio doesn't seem quite feasible within this time frame. I will now enroll in webflow university to better understand and get started on the portfolio.

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By Agencia D

Oct 24, 2022

Excelente curso! Lo recomiendo 100%

By Ajeet P

May 10, 2024

EXCEPTIONAL DETAIL

By Eric S

Sep 28, 2023

I think the course does a really great job of setting the groundwork for jumping into this industry. As a complete beginner these topics felt very easy to understand and pick up. The readings really helped solidify the topics talked about in the videos. I was under the impression though that in this first course we were going to look at portfolios and begin the process of building one ourselves, but that never happened. I found that there used to be a "Building a professional presence (Portfolio)" module for week 4 which was replaced for a "research in UX module". I think bringing the portfolio building class back would really help me visualize what I will be working towards in this course

By Judit O

Jun 27, 2022

The course is very interesting and well built-up and the optional links (to videos, blogs, articles etc) offer deeper insights on the subjects which is really helpful when someone wants to learn more than what's included in the course material

My 4 star rate doesn't relate to the content because that's brilliant, it's more relevant to the fact that sometimes I found hard to navigate in the menu, especially in the beginning of the course. I would also appreciate getting a note whenever someone comments on my post so that I can read their comment and reply - but maybe this feature already exists I just couldn't find it.

By Anastasiya V

Mar 5, 2022

Easy to understand and absorb the information, but some of the activities (practices quizes) are long and tiresome. The same is true for many of the readings--they restate too much information that's already been said in previous videos, and the font and print of them is not pleasant or easy to look at and concentrate on. This is a really well-put together course, overall!

By Luis P

Mar 28, 2021

The materials were really interesting, clear and helpful. I mostly enjoyed the part about design sprints, here i learned some new things that i am sure i will use in the future. I was a little disappointed to have so much lessons about building a portfolio and social presence. I think this is important, but it isn't something i wanted from a UX Design course

By Darren C

Mar 24, 2021

First half of the course is quite good but it get boring as soon as it gets into the building personal portfolio section. Suggest to shorten that part a bit or move to later of the certificate when I have something to put in the portfolio.

By Rzan B

Sep 12, 2022

I learned lots of new definitions and concepts, but still the course need practical part, unfortunately the whole course purely theoretical

By Malek E

Jul 5, 2021

Very informative and easy to understand even for people with zero knowledge about design. Highly recommend.

By A

May 30, 2022

At the first stage of certification from Google, you will be told very simple information with a huge amount of superfluous and repeating the same thing several times. This course is aimed at complete beginners. Yes, there is important information in the course too, but it seems that this course needs to be revised and improved. In comparison, the course from the University of Michigan looks more full-bodied and informative.

By Joshua H

Jan 5, 2024

It's way too easy. I get that it's a beginner course, but quizzes often had the answers to one question in the wording of the next. It feels like it could have gone quicker, and I did the four week course in 4 days.

By Sam O

Dec 1, 2023

The content is solid, but the course itself needs some QA. I found topics in the wrong order, a quiz that tested material that was not yet taught, and some graphic design issues.

By Scott Q

Apr 15, 2021

This first half was very interesting but the second half about networking and personal branding was just too generic for the course and is often found in any career training.

By Измайлов И И

Nov 20, 2021

Too much information about finding a job. I don't like it, I just want to learn UX Design

By Eleonora L

Dec 7, 2021

more than ux foundations, it was a course about UX designer job

By Moti H M

Apr 30, 2023

Giving it a 2 start since I think the course suffers in many aspects. The information needed to practically excel in the field feels at most to compromise 20% of the material, while the rest feels superfluous, preachy and over-simplified even for a foundational course. Unfortunately, some of the instructors were difficult to understand even with a native understanding of English.

Tips for improvement: keep video content matter-of-fact, which is especially important due to their length.

I understand that the simplicity might be due to the targeted age demographic being broad. In which case, consider having multiple courses with different intended age demographics. Apologies if this is already the case.

By Anastasia S

Apr 7, 2021

Background music fragments were awful and did not correspond to the presented course, they t resembled the music for a TV store on the couch, making the course look like cheap. The part about the need for inclusion was unreasonably long and included excessive pathos. Don't get me wrong, I am a radical feminist and have lived for many years in a country in which I had to fight and suffer for my beliefs, and how the topic of inclusion and underrepresentation was presented in the course makes me feel offended and embarrassed. The rest is ok for introductory course, a lot of encouraging chatter and two or three helpful tips. Let's see how the further courses of the program are arranged

By Nadine

Jul 22, 2022

Information was very redundant. Felt like the course could have been cut in half as far as length of material.

Overall I get the intention behind the curation of this course, and the desire to educate and share personal experience as much as possible to newcomers such as myself.

Love the option where there was both the video AND transcript option to review the material. It makes it more accessible to both the slower digesting audience and the faster digesting audience.

By Pelit M

Jan 11, 2023

Sorry, it's clear some effort was put into this course, but it doesn't have a single example of a product UX, customer survey etc. It's merely a course about corporate bureaucracy, not design.

By Nathaniel A

Oct 19, 2023

I am someone who didn't know anything about UX design before this course. However, this course is a bit too much intro/entry level for me.

By C. R

Jul 22, 2021

Better information can be found on YouTube for free from more engaging individuals.

By Adham E

Jun 12, 2022

The Course is great for absolute Beginners!

By Lubna R

Oct 11, 2021

I had finished up my ocurse and was in the process to submit my last week quiz where I lost all my work and previously completed workdone on the cousea. Now it reset to start over again which make no sense to waste time and money for the repeated material and charging fee on my account. Useless and closing the account for no gain in any sense. Don not recommend to any one.

By Catalin C

Aug 14, 2022

Absolutely nothing practical, concrete, useful. I had to digest a lot of radical left-wing social politics vomit until I actually started to skip Google's "equity, diversity and representation" virtue signaling because it made me physically ill.

By AK C

Aug 18, 2021

All the 4 courses I enrolled in were ok!. I didn't find it great. The instructors were just reading out from the screen. I wanted to experience real teaching. Some assignments were fun, but overall it's time to change the teaching style.