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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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10 weeks
7–10 hours per week
Starts Apr 14, 2025
Enroll by Apr 20, 2025
Instructor-paced
Instructor-led on a course schedule

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10 weeks
7–10 hours per week
Starts Apr 14, 2025
Enroll by Apr 20, 2025
Instructor-paced
Instructor-led on a course schedule

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.

Course curriculum

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Learn how to give users a seamless online experience as you work through the weekly modules of this online short course.

Orientation module: Welcome to your Online Campus

Module 1: Introduction to user experience design

Module 2: Building a product-use context

Module 3: Outcomes and stakeholder management

Module 4: Research and evidence gathering

Module 5: Evaluation, alignment, and reporting

Module 6: The aesthetics of user experience

Module 7: Wireframing

Module 8: Prototyping

Module 9: Presentation and delivery of a UX study

Module 10: A brave new world: UX in practice

About the certificate

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.

Your certificate will be issued in your legal name and sent to you digitally upon successful completion of the program, as per the stipulated requirements. Please note, due to additional administrative requirements, at times UCT course certificate delivery may be delayed by several weeks/months.

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).

Why choose GetSmarter?

GetSmarter, an edX partner, delivers career-relevant, fully supported, and expert-led online courses from the world's leading universities and institutions. As an online learning expert with over 15 years' experience, GetSmarter leverages long-standing expertise in market research, data analysis, and business insights to ensure that you gain the skills critical to career growth.