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University of Cape Town: User Experience Design
Optimize website navigation and create an engaging user experience for customers.
Optimize website navigation and create an engaging user experience for customers.
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User Experience Design
About this Course
Ease of use is now a vital feature of an effective digital environment. For a website or app to holistically serve its purpose, it needs to offer customers a seamless, intuitive user experience (UX).
The University of Cape Town (UCT) User Experience Design online short course enables you to understand how users interact with online content so that you can design environments that meet their evolving needs. You’ll discover key UX research and design techniques, and learn how to work with stakeholders, run user tests, design wireframes, and develop prototypes. You’ll also analyze current trends in the field, and map out a professional journey for yourself so that you can better leverage your new skills to launch a career in UX.
This course is suitable for anyone who wants to boost their understanding of online user behavior and walk away with tools to improve the usability of a website or app. The content is ideal for professionals who need to develop highly transferable, practical UX design skills in order to improve performance in their current position or who wish to prepare for future career growth. Those already in a design, digital marketing, product ownership, or web development role will further expand their knowledge and validate their existing expertise. No prior technical knowledge of coding is required for this course.
Enhance your understanding of user experience design and earn an official certificate of completion from the University of Cape Town.
Assessment is continuous and based on a series of practical assignments completed online. In order to be issued with a digital certificate, you’ll need to meet the requirements outlined in the course handbook. The handbook will be made available to you as soon as you begin the course.
Some facts about the subject
52%
The percentage of consumers who’d stop what they’re doing if they had trouble interacting with content on a device.
Adobe (2019).
60%
The percentage of abandoned purchase users who switched to a rival retailer’s website because it was easier to checkout, even if the product was more expensive.
Rogerwilco (2020).