EARN YOUR UX DESIGN CREDENTIAL
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The UX Design Credential provides learners with the essential skills and knowledge needed to conduct user centered research, create intuitive designs, and build accessible, effective digital experiences. This credential combines user experience (UX) research methodologies with practical design and prototyping techniques, equipping you to meet the needs of user groups of all types and contribute to the creation of user-friendly digital products for varying audiences.
Through four comprehensive courses, you will master both the strategic and practical aspects of UX. The program begins with understanding how to gather and interpret user data, followed by designing user interfaces that are intuitive and geared for all types of people. The focus is on building prototypes and evaluating design solutions through usability testing, ensuring that your designs are effective, efficient, and satisfying for users.
Complete your M.P.S. in UX Design in just 15 months with an accelerated, 100% online format. With no set class times, you learn when and where it works for you. Throughout the program, you’ll collaborate with peers and faculty, enabling you to succeed in the online learning environment.
Be exposed to some of the latest tools which Learn by doing and engaging in hands-on coursework, case studies, and real-world projects designed to help you immediately apply UX design techniques in your current work. Engaging multimedia course content enhances your learning experience, making it easier to grasp concepts and apply them effectively.
At MICA, you belong to a welcoming and supportive community that fuels innovation and professional growth. Our M.P.S. programs equip creatives with the skills, connections, and resources needed to thrive in evolving industries. Industry-leading faculty provide ongoing support through office hours and constructive feedback, ensuring you stay engaged throughout the program.
While Earning Your Degree
Throughout the program, you’ll create a professional UX portfolio, culminating in a final capstone project. Applying UX techniques to real-world projects builds in-demand skills and prepares you for future career goals.
Curriculum and Support
Access our comprehensive career development services, develop powerful career advancement strategies, benefit from optional professional skills-based workshops, and learn from professionals with hands-on experience to ensure you advance in your UX career.
Stay ahead in the field with cutting-edge UX design tools and best practices. Through hands-on application, you’ll refine your ability to create intuitive, user-centered experiences that drive real impact and prepare you for career growth.
Course Sequence
UX Design is integral to everything in the digital world, from websites to products and apps. This program equips you with the skills, knowledge, and confidence to make a meaningful impact on real-world UX projects. Your courses will focus on critical analytic, problem-solving, and design skills, preparing you for the UX field. Through a balanced approach that emphasizes both theoretical and practical research and development, you’ll finish the credential with a thorough understanding of UX Design.
The UX Design credential consists of four comprehensive courses:
To ensure student success in the program, students will complete an asynchronous orientation course in Canvas as a means to introduce them to the navigation of MICA’s administrative tools as well as inform them of academic services available through MICA. The content and assignments in the orientation course are designed to be an introduction to the program as well as a resource throughout the students’ time at MICA.
Core Skills:
Students in this course focus on applied practices from the user research learned in the Foundations of UX Research course. Here, information architecture, interaction design, visual design, and usability are discussed as students explore screen and page layout, organization, navigation, labeling, search, and other core concepts and techniques such as user flows, wireframes, and content modeling. Students will gain practical experience as they design a prototype for further development in the next course.
This course provides an overview and introduction to the nature of human-centered design with a special emphasis on improving UX for all people and perspectives. Students study the nature of human-machine interactions that involve visual, sound, and haptic feedback. Through readings, discussions, and exercises students explore the application of human factors in the design and evaluation of user interfaces. The history of human factors, perception, cognition, error, social factors, and the objectives of evaluating usability are also covered in this course. Additional topics of effectiveness, efficiency, and user satisfaction, along with techniques like heuristic evaluations and usability testing are studied as students learn how to solve design problems.
