(SCTP) Advanced Professional Certificate in UX Design and Digital Product Management (Classroom, Synchronous and Asynchronous E-Learning)
About This Course
Trainees will gain the necessary well-rounded knowledge and essential grasp in Human-Centred Design and User Experience for employment opportunities with tech, product companies and/or consulting agencies. They will learn the skills, tools and techniques relevant in launching or expanding a successful career as a UX or Product Designer or Product Manager:
• The ability to integrate future-focused human-centred design thinking into your work, creating faster, simpler, and more intuitive experiences between humans and technology.
• Gain fluency with the core UX design process, from user research to usability to interaction design, wireframing, prototyping, and user testing – with industry-leading platforms like Figma – to design intuitive digital experiences that provide meaningful and relevant experiences to users.
• The ability to transfer a product’s development, business objectives, research, insights, content and layout into an attractive, usable and responsive experience for users that solve real problems under the Design Thinking frameworks.
What You'll Learn
Throughout the course, you will gain essential hands-on experience in all of the key aspects of the UX design process. This includes planning and conducting UX research, defining users' needs, ideating solutions, rapid prototyping, building and testing low/mid-fidelity wireframes to high-fidelity interactive prototypes, designing impactful UI mockups, and crafting design systems.
You will also learn the foundations of product management, including Scrum and Agile, providing them with the core skills to be productive in product design teams in a start-up, agency, and product company settings.
This course covers both synchronous and asynchronous learning combined with assignments, expert-led coaching sessions and project presentations for a holistic and well-rounded learning experience. You will graduate with a solid understanding of how Human-Centred Design is applied in the design of digital products.
Entry Requirements
Trainees should have some related background that is relevant to the programme:
• Individuals with professional experience in digital, graphic design , research, marketing or product management, creative, design, digital, product or research background looking to diversify/expand their skills and/or intending to switch to a UX/Research/Product Design or Product Management role;
• Employed full-time and seeking upskilling within the tech industry. (e.g. Graphic/Digital/Visual/UI Designer, Product Manager, Frontend Developer);
• Those with a degree/diploma/certificate in Human Computer Interaction, UX, Product Design, Design & Technology, Design Thinking, User Experience, Design & Visual Communication, Arts, Fine Arts, Advertising & Design, Mass Communication, Communication Technology, Communications & New Media, Digital Media, Usability Engineering, Product Design, Multimedia, Cognitive Science, Psychology, Computer Science, etc. ; or
• All shortlisted applicants must take a techni