User Experience Practitioner Certification

Learn how to take your interest in User Experience to the next level with our UX Certification.

User Experience Practitioner Certification with Frank Spillers

At the end of this course, you will be able to conduct all aspects of Human Centered Design, the core methodology including:

• Conducting all core aspects of User Experience research and desing. Be a generalist in UX, not a specialist, unlike other UX certifications that box you in. 
• Learn the ropes from hundreds of hours of training and consulting mistakes: learn and avoid mistakes.
• 1:1 Coaching with Frank Spillers- a world-leading UX expert who has taught UX to over 80,000 students globally to date. 
• Designing results-oriented User Interfaces with a high degree of usability and desirability.
• Planning, organizing, and executing: Field Studies and Usability Tests for user needs analysis and interface feedback. This includes all aspects of ‘rapid ethnography’ from recruiting to moderating interviews, capturing data, creating personas, reporting on field studies, and usability tests.

Leverage UX Trainer Frank Spillers 21 years of corporate experience across industries like Healthcare, Financial Services, Banking, Consumer, Technology, Ecommerce and Education. Frank is the founder of award-winning UX consulting firm Experience Dynamics and practices everything he teaches. 

Experience Dynamics UX Practitioner programs will give you holistic and practical knowledge and practice with the core elements of Human Centered Design in the following areas:

User Research:

• How to easily do all aspects of user research: Task analysis, Ethnography, Diary Studies and User Testing. 
• Understand and powerfully use role-based personas. 
• Generate your own research from set-up to moderation and reporting. 
• Master contextual user interviewing, data analysis and artifact gathering.
• Develop an Outside-In approach to gathering user needs, desires, tasks and goals. 
• Learn to present field research powerfully.
• How to do user testing, user interviews, and ethnography completely online!
• Working with, communicating, and evangelizing Qualitative research results,insights and findings.

Interaction Design:

• Approach UX design strategy elegantly with Task-oriented Design.
• Designing with and for personas, conceptual models and persuasion.
• Learn how to apply the 10 Google Material Design principles to your design. 
• Building Accessibility into your work. 
• UI Design Rules and how to apply them (or break them).
• Learn the 16 Interaction Design Techniques.
• Design for Emotion: approaching emotion design and desirability as a core UX approach. 
• Discover 16 User Interface Rules.

Usability Testing: How to conduct Rapid User Tests.

• Create usability testing as a regular design tool: set-up, recruit, moderate and report on your user tests. 
• Learn to flexibly conduct a Remote, Unmoderated or Lab based test.
• Become an exceptional moderator.
• Rigor in testing, key issues and concepts. 
• Analyze and present data for better design decisions.
• Learn logistic shortcuts for rapid Agile/Lean testing.
• Emotion design research -validate your design's emotional value. 
• Testing accessibility and Section 508 compliance. 

Time to complete: 3 Days 

Pre-requisites: None Typical audience: UX analyst, UX designer, Product Manager, Front-end Developer, User Researcher, BA, Designer. Note: This training is based on learning the real-world skills, with the intended use in real-world business contexts.

Experience Dynamics provides User Experience Practitioner and Master Practitioner Certification based on our immersive instruction model, called Applied Learning. The UX Certification experience has 3 levels of learning and 3 levels of rigor we use to evaluate how well students acquire and assimilate skills. 

Experience Dynamics UX certifications are modeled on our successful UX engagements with Fortune 500 companies globally. True to User Centered Design, we created our certification based on student-centered (user centered) learning. The certification, unlike other popular certifications in the industry that are based on theoretical or "best practice" concepts, is aimed at giving you practical expertise in User Experience research and User Centered Design skills. 

What you get: Mastering UX Cards will be provided to each participant as well as a UX Practitioner Training Manual and 3 months of membership to 1:1 mentoring in Frank Spillers' UX Inner Circle: www.uxinnercircle.com (a $10,500 value of training and UX resources including 18 hours of full video from past UX Practitioner Certification Trainings).