Overview It is hard to overstate the importance of UX in our relationship with the digital environment. Forrester has established that organizations that invest in UX have fared better than most in bull markets and in recessions (Forrester, 2015). This is truer than ever, now that the pandemic has broadened the adoption of remote work, online social life and entertainment. Learn User Experience fundamentals from the professors of the most important UX lab in North America. In this UX Design and Evaluation MicroMasters program offered by EdX in partnership with HECMontrealX, you will learn to meet organizational goals and satisfy users by applying a user-centred process to the digital products and services development that solve industry-relevant, real-world problems.What you will learnDesign professional interfaces offering quality user experiences;Develop empathy and insights using Web analytics and qualitative and quantitative methods;Leverage insights from data in order to propose empirically-based recommendations;Prototype low-tech mock-ups to high-fidelity interactive interfaces; andExecute formal lab evaluations for all user testing, including compliance testing.Job OutlookA user-centred UX approach is invaluable in all steps of digital product and service development, from early research, identifying strategic insight, to innovation, interface design, prototyping and testing, as well as managing UX projects.UX demand for UX specialists is strong and will grow some a hundredfold between 2017 and 2050, as organizations around the world strive towards UX maturity. (Source: Jakob Nielsen, NNGroup)The skills you will learn here such as Design Thinking, UI Design, UX Prototyping, User Testing, and Quantitative UX Data Analysis, are regularly listed in top job listings every week (Source: LinkedIn).Career opportunities include UX Researcher, UX Designer, UI Designer, UX Specialist, and UX Project Lead if your background is in project management.The average salary for a UX Designer or a UX Specialist in the USA is $100,000 a year, for a UI Designer, $84,000. (Source: Indeed).

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