Design a User Experience for Social Good & Prepare for Jobs

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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 youve learned during the certificate program to complete the design process from beginning to end: empathizing with users, defining their pain points,...

Syllabus

Design for social good and strengthen your portfolio

You've reached the final course of the Google UX Design Certificate congratulations! You will design a dedicated mobile app and a responsive website focused on social good that showcases everything you've learned in the program. To get started, you'll learn about designing across devices by exploring progressive enhancement and graceful degradation approaches and the 4Cs. With all of this new knowledge, youll begin your portfolio project. Youll start with the empathize phase, where youll create personas, user stories, and user journey maps. Then, youll move on to the define phase, where youll identify the user need your project will focus on and build a problem statement. Finally, youll make your way into the ideate phase, where youll conduct a competitive audit and come up with ideas for your dedicated mobile app design through sketching.

Build a professional presence

As the digital world continues to expand, companies recognize that designing good user experiences is a necessity, which is why UX design is a high-growth and in-demand job field. The key to landing one of those UX design jobs is a strong portfolio and online presence. In this part of the course, you'll start to create a portfolio to showcase your upcoming work. You'll also learn about the importance of having a personal brand and building an online presence.

Finding a UX job

In the final part of the Google UX Design Certificate, youll prepare to find a job as a new UX designer. Youll start by making final adjustments to your portfolio to ensure its ready to share in job applications. Next, youll examine the UX design interview process and develop strategies to succeed in various types of interview: pre-interview research, an elevator pitch, a phone screen, a portfolio presentation, a whiteboard exercise, a take home design exercise, and more. Finally, youll explore the world of freelancing by creating a business plan and learning how to land your first client.