User Interface / User Experience (UI / UX) Designer

If you like creating visually appealing and user-friendly digital interfaces, conducting user research, and designing wireframes and prototypes this role is for you.

A UI/UX Designer creates and refines digital interfaces, ensuring they are user-friendly and visually appealing. Key skills include UI design, UX research, and wireframing.

Skills you’ll need: Interaction Design, User Experience Design, User Centered Design, Visual Design, Design Thinking, Typography, Information Architecture, Agile Methodology

$129,408 median salary19,159 jobs available¹

User Interface / User Experience (UI / UX) Designer

If you like creating visually appealing and user-friendly digital interfaces, conducting user research, and designing wireframes and prototypes this role is for you.

A UI/UX Designer creates and refines digital interfaces, ensuring they are user-friendly and visually appealing. Key skills include UI design, UX research, and wireframing.

Skills you’ll need: Interaction Design, User Experience Design, User Centered Design, Visual Design, Design Thinking, Typography, Information Architecture, Agile Methodology

$129,408 median salary19,159 jobs available¹

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Career resources

  • Anytime you interact with a product or service, you have a user experience. This might entail navigating a mobile app, browsing a website, interacting with a physical product (like trying out a new running shoe), or taking advantage of a service (checking into a hotel or using public transportation for example).

  • Combining art and technology, graphic designers use various design elements to create distinctive visuals for clients and companies. A graphic designer can work with print or digital media, and they can create their designs by hand or using computer software.

  • In order to develop products that satisfy user needs (and delight them in the process), you first need to know who your user is and what that person’s needs are. That’s where user experience (UX) research comes in.

  • A UI designer is someone who designs the graphical user interface of an app, website, or device that a human interacts with. For example, when you access a website or an app on your phone, there’s usually a graphical interface that allows you to navigate and achieve your goal.

Success stories

Daijah R.
Google UX Design Professional Certificate
"The program really helped me to mold my idea of what a user experience designer's work should be... I could directly see my skills improve and my toolkit expand."
Gabriel
Google UX Design Professional Certificate
"For the price of the Google Career certificate, that's a really approachable price. For what you're getting it's a great return on investment. I would recommend it to anybody."
Luc
Google UX Design Professional Certificate
"The Google UX Design Certificate has been extremely beneficial to my career. I landed a great job shortly after completion."
Rachel L.
Google UX Design Professional Certificate
"I loved the process of going through the UX research... it gave me an appreciation for the pre-work that goes into a product before you start putting pixels together."

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