Graduate Certificate - User Experience Design (UX511)

Humber’s User Experience (UX) Design graduate certificate simulates the interdisciplinary approaches needed to achieve an innovation process with a focus on design desirability, technological feasibility and business viability. In two semesters, students will be prepared to innovate by problem finding through design research, problem understanding through synthesis, and problem solving through design and prototyping experiences. Students will learn how to create valuable courses of action by generating design problem hypotheses, structured design process plans, compelling UX deliverables and persuasive arguments.

Students will learn human-centered design methods and rhetoric that ground their design in the needs of the public. In addition, they will learn how to use interaction design and design systems through industry-standard quality assurance methods, and how to design and implement user interfaces to follow corporate strategies. A variety of conceptual and practical work will help students develop effective UX design skills.

As user experience designers, students will employ the work-practice of prototyping concepts in order to describe ways to integrate digital services with material products and environments. As UX researchers, students will discover insights through usability testing and apply them to create value for corporate clients and their customers. Toward the conclusion of this program, students will convert their acquired skills and achievements into a portfolio of design products that will help them launch a career as a UX design professional. This program fosters the practical discipline, relevance and currency essential in the contemporary, ever-growing UX job market using in-class studio spaces, case studies, peer-to-peer learning, live client work and a work placement. Graduates will have engaged in varied and comprehensive workplace experiences by the end of the three semesters.

All courses are hybrid and will combine online and in-class instruction and studio work.

This program includes a 160-hour (minimum) work placement which may be completed full time in the third semester.