College Diploma - UX Designer (Co-op)

UX design professionals are in high demand. Students can take this program to set themselves up for a successful career as a UX Design Professional. In this program studnets will learn the skills, tools, and techniques used in the field of User Experience Design and apply them in a practical professional environment; including design, research, testing of interfaces, websites, products, and applications. This program prepares students for a career in any of the following roles: UX Designer, Information Architect, UX Researcher, Product Designer, and Interaction Designer.

Upon completion of this program, students will be able to:

• • Understand and apply the principles of user experience research, user-centric design approaches and strategy, UX methodologies, information architecture, user behaviours, information structures, graphical user interfaces, visual design, mobile user experience, and usability testing
• • Work in a practical setting and apply techniques such as creating a user-centric design approach for a project using personal development and information design
• • Develop usable wireframes for a website and/or simple application using Axure software
• • Design an intuitive user interface and applying the learned principles of visual design
• • Test and measure the success of a UX design project employing learned user testing techniques