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About the Course

Start the UX Design Process: Empathize, Define, Ideate is the second course in a certificate program that will equip you with the skills needed to apply to entry-level jobs in user experience (UX) design. In this course, you’ll complete the first phases of the design process for a project that you’ll be able to include in your portfolio. You will learn how to empathize with users and understand their pain points, define user needs using problem statements, and come up with lots of ideas for solutions to those user problems. Current UX designers and researchers at Google will serve as your instructors, and you will complete hands-on activities that simulate real-world UX design scenarios. Learners who complete the seven courses in this certificate program should be equipped to apply for entry-level jobs as UX designers. No previous experience is necessary. By the end of this course, you will be able to: - Empathize with users to understand their needs and pain points. - Create empathy maps, personas, user stories, and user journey maps to understand user needs. - Develop problem statements to define user needs. - Generate ideas for possible solutions to user problems. - Conduct competitive audits. - Start designing a mobile app, a new project to include in your professional UX portfolio....

Top reviews

TB

Sep 29, 2021

This course is very good & massively designed for student's who are biginner in UX field. The lecturers are also self proffessional experienced UX designer. Is not is great for carrier!!! Pretty cool!

ND

Aug 5, 2021

My instructor was engaging and communicated very well. The transcription was super handy and I loved that the reading after the lecture re-emphasized the content of the lecture. Excellent. Thank you.

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By Shiven S

Jun 14, 2022

Almost everything I liked in this course. Ideation, Brainstrom design ideas by sketching, How Might We Exercise, Crazy Eights Exercise, and also the audit report. All of these were so engaging and new to me that I was very involved in all of the exercises. The most challenging thing for me was to create an audit report, as the definition of my project is something not too complex and also somewhat unique. The way they've taught this part of the entire course is really easy and understandable.

By Michelle B

Jan 11, 2022

This course by Google is excellent and very thorough. In general, it's incredibly well designed and as a UX Design course is quite a pleasant experience as a user. They vary the learning between short videos, pop quizzes, short internal readings, optional outside readings and hands on peer-graded projects. I'm learning a lot. This feels like an incredibly fun and effective way to learn a whole new skill set. I highly recommend this course to anyone looking to get into UX Design.

By Nini C

Apr 9, 2023

I've learned so much from this program. UX design is really much harder than I expected when I started this course. So much human psychology, people's relation, thinking, speech, and writing skills involved.... I especially appreciate the well-thought out program with the bite size lessons that allow us to learn gradually in our own speed. Thank you Google. The visual aid within each lesson and instructors' friendly tone and encouragement are also greatly helpful to learn.

By Imperial S C

Apr 13, 2023

The information is concise, clear and delivered to ensure full confidence of complete comprehension. The information is designed and delivered to ensure no mater how you learn, you grasp the information and are able to apply it in real time. I absolutely love this course and know it's the best decision I made to break into the IT field. It compliments my BA and Masters degrees phenomenally. I'm excited to get into the workforce and put this information to work.

By CLAY S

Sep 8, 2022

I am finding this course very good and at times challenging because I have set goals to really learn and accomplish so much but have other things that I am working on too. I do know I am making good time and progress and I am happy with that. Thank you for providing this Curriculum and Education in a Focused and Concise way. It is helping me to put hings into perspective and I am learning New things I did no know before. The instuctors explain things very good.

By Beril Ö Ç

Mar 12, 2022

Really a great course! It's well-structured, which covers the important parts of the empathize, define and ideate phases. I've learned a lot with the help of this course.

It was very instructive as the course is based on your doing the activities (practice quizes and assignments). Thus, I had the opportunity to learn while doing them. Also, I really liked the additional readings provided by links, which helped me gain broader perspective on the covered subjects.

By Lydasse C

Apr 17, 2023

"Start the UX Design Process: Empathize, Define, and Ideate" is an excellent course! It provides a concise and practical overview of the key steps in the UX design process, from empathizing with users to defining problem statements and generating creative ideas. The course is well-structured, easy to follow, and offers valuable insights for beginners and experienced practitioners alike. Highly recommended for anyone looking to enhance their UX design skills!

By Shreya S

Apr 29, 2022

Great course, I loved the journey from ux research, interviewing potential users, creating personas which feel real and have a believable story. Then, I learned about creating problem statement and potential solutions. The lessona about value proposition were also great.

The last phase of the course, Ideation was really interesting. I learned about competitive audits and and had fun drawing solution in the crazy eight!

Good course overall with good mentors.

By Issac G V

May 5, 2023

I Think it was an excelent course, the dynamycs were really usefull to learn but I think the estimated times might be really different from what it is considered for some activities, as a new puppil of UX design some challenges are taking me like 5 hours instead of 1 hour so maybe the time stablished for some activities could be adjusted but it is only a suggestion. Other than that I'm more than happy with my experience, it was indeed a worth challenge.

By Starve M “ M

Dec 21, 2021

Plenty of linked articles and content. Thorough learning experience. Generally includes an intro video then articles that go deeper into the video concept. This course is more hands on than the intro course. The course ins now guiding me through building my portfolio. The assignments give me a focused project with orderly guidance rather than me making up a case study. Plus the exemplars and peer reviews allow me to compare to see if I'm doing it right.

By Hilal A

Mar 12, 2022

Hey there I'm Hilal ahmad Just completed this course I learned alot of things from this course. Being a software engineer Its an honor for me to share this experience from you guys. So helpul and very much things to learn. how to be interview from someone and interact with some body teach me this course. the problem statment and how to ideate and solution for that problem. learn alot of things I'm so excited and ready to learn next course.

By Andrew K

Sep 5, 2022

Thanks for letting me take this course via your financial aid program, the course is wonderful, consistent and well structured. To give you some useful feedback on how to make this course even better, I would suggest to add some check-up at the end of what shall be completed and how we use it in next UX development stage (wireframing).

I wish to thanks everyone who made efforts and made this amazing course available

By Rebecca H

Oct 23, 2022

This course was great to get started with the design thinking process. I really enjoyed learning about all the tools to help me emphasize with the user more before moving onto defining and exploring ideas for design. The projects within this course really helped me take the learning and practice it with peer feedback. Thank you for offering such an informative and interesting course for the UX Design Process!

By Sudhir D J

Jun 27, 2022

I should have done it earlier. A must course for every designer who wants to provide the right solutions to their customers. There is a possibility that in your organization whether it's big, medium size, or a small size company, you might not get the opportunity to follow these processes due to time/ budget constraints but I insist, you MUST learn these step-by-step processes to become a better UX designer.

By Nomvula N N

Jul 31, 2021

This is a great course ! I have learned so much and I heard this is the most challenging course in all the 7 courses and I get it now. It was really challenging but It is definitely worth it . Creating user journeys and discovering user pain points as my favorite , also creating personas .The hardest was the competitor audit and report , it took so much to do the research . I'm glad I learned all this .

By Sarah M

Jan 13, 2022

This course is a little dense, at least in comparison tot he introductory course. However, it has a plethora of options to learn about the very beginning stages of UX Design - UX Research. This course also allows students to make some traction on their chosen portfolio projects. Lots of hands-on work, lots of reading and video content. Nothing negative about that -- just be prepared for the workload.

By Srashti S

Sep 26, 2023

I'm really thankful for the Google Design Course. It's been a great help to me as a design student. The course content is easy to understand, the interactive activities are fun, and the instructors are knowledgeable. I've learned a lot and feel more confident in my design skills now. This course has been a big boost to my design education, and I'm excited to use what I've learned in the future.

By elijah o

Apr 25, 2023

Oh!! this course was really challenging for me, I had to go beyond what I believed I already know and was open to the task and process that was involved in carrying out a successful Empathize, Define, and Ideate phase.

Thanks to the instructor who took charge of this course, wonderful work was done here and was delivered successfully, I can boldly say there is an upgrade in this skill for me.

By Alexandra

Oct 12, 2022

The Course was very informative and well presented. I've learned the basics of UX research, how to empathize with Users, explored Personas, wrote a User story, identified the happy paths and edge cases, discovered the benefits of User journey maps, created problem statements and hypothesis statement, ideated, started to build my own Portfolio. I'm well on my way to becoming UX designer!

By Anastasiya L

Nov 8, 2022

I truly enjoyed making this course. Gaining a lot of new skills , easy and fun. All the videos are pleasant to watch and listen and extremely informative. Maybe because Im opening the whole new world, for me every lecture and every article were so interesting and not overloaded with unnecessary information. And the tasks that I had to complete along the course were fun to make.

By Yannis M

Jul 11, 2021

This course was a great introduction into the first 3 stages of the design thinking process. These are obviously very dense topics but the course managed to offer a solid foundation to confidently move to the next stages of the process. The assignments were spot on and allowed me to learn what designers are actually doing when working on design projects in companies like Google.

By Nida T

Dec 26, 2021

I liked the instructor very much. The way she explained with the examples. Having animations for examples has really helped me to be persistant and not get bored in the process of learning. The hardest part is the assignments we need that motivation to finish the assignment at any cost. Just allot some time for assignments and we can get it done qucik and efficiently.

By Blessful E

Jul 3, 2022

Actually, it's an Amazing one, but I wanna talk about the (Assignment and weekly challenges) project. the problem is something, the practical Assignment is not probably clear and simple to understand, and second: make a good and understandable example, of the practical work before the Challenge Assignment. thank you... above all, you guys are Amazing.💪🎉🥳🤓

By Jeremy B

Mar 24, 2021

I feel like I learned a lot in this course! I knew a little about UX before taking the course, but had no idea what to do before actually designing stuff. I'd heard about personas and user journeys, but didn't really get how to make them. The materials in the course walk you through it and were really helpful. Excited I've started building my first portfolio project!

By Maham A

Jul 12, 2023

I will recommend this professional program to every learner who is willing to get the best understanding of UX/UI designing. Take this course, take benefits. It is really awesome. For my Instructor: It's been also so wonderful for being your student throughout the course. I also can't wait for me to start a career in UX/UI in future. But this course is best start.