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- Define the field of UX and explain why it matters to consumers and businesses alike. - Understand fundamental concepts of UX design such as user-centered design, design process, accessibility, and fairness-focused design. - Identify the factors that contribute to great user experience design. - Review common job responsibilities of up-and-coming designers and UX teams they work with. - Explore job opportunities and career paths in the user experience field. - Explain why design sprints are an important and useful part of a UX designer's job. - Describe common UX research methods. - Identify and account for biases in UX research.

- Describe common UX research methods. - Empathize with users to understand their needs and pain points. - Create empathy maps, profiles, 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. - Identify and take into account biases in UX research. - Start designing a mobile app, a new project to include in your professional UX portfolio.

- Develop a goal statement. - Create two types of storyboards: big picture and close-up. - Understand the difference between low and high fidelity design. - Apply the fundamentals of drawing. - Apply information architecture principles to organize a mobile application. - Create paper wireframes for a mobile app design. - Develop digital wireframes in Figma design tool. - Build a paper prototype to add interactivity to projects. - Design a low-fidelity prototype in Figma. - Recognize implicit biases and misleading standards in design. - Continue designing a mobile app to include in your professional portfolio.

- Explain why and how to include data privacy in user research - Create a script for a UX research study - Determine participants for a UX research study - Define key performance indicators for a UX research study - Describe how research questions inform research methods - Plan a UX research study - Define the steps of the UX research process - Identify examples of common UX research studies

- Build high-fidelity mockups and prototypes in Figma. - Define and apply common visual design elements and principles. - Demonstrate how design systems can be used to organize, standardize, and improve designs. - Understand the role of design critique and feedback sessions during design iteration. - Learn how to deliver finished design projects to engineering teams. - Complete mobile app projects to include in a professional UX portfolio.

- Apply each step of the UX design process (empathize, define, ideate, prototype, test) to create a responsive website. - Develop designs in a popular design tool, Adobe XD. - Plan information architecture and create sitemaps for website designs. - Apply common layouts to web pages. - Plan and conduct a usability study to collect feedback on designs. - Iterate on designs based on research insights. - Work with design systems in Adobe XD. - Add a new design project to your professional UX portfolio.

- Apply each step of the UX design process (empathize, define, ideate, prototype, test) to create designs focused on social good. - Identify the differences between dedicated mobile apps and responsive web apps. - Understand progressive enhancement and graceful degradation approaches for designing on multiple devices. - Create low and high fidelity wireframes, mockups and prototypes in Figma or Adobe XD. - Add a new design project to your professional UX portfolio. - Create your portfolio of design jobs for job applications. - Join and participate in online UX communities. - Interview for an entry-level UX design job. - Determine if freelance design work is a good career for you.