most recent 30 from http://uxexchange.com 2010-09-09T17:03:10Z http://uxexchange.com/feeds/question/855 http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/rdf http://uxexchange.com/questions/855/user-experience-certificate-program Arvind 2009-11-20T15:09:06Z 2010-07-20T04:56:30Z

<p>Any idea on how good is the course :Certified User Experience Professional (CUEP) from Texas Tech Universy is? <a href="http://www.depts.ttu.edu/ode/beta/2009/outreach/conferences/user-experience-certificate.php" rel="nofollow">http://www.depts.ttu.edu/ode/beta/2009/outreach/conferences/user-experience-certificate.php</a></p>

http://uxexchange.com/questions/855/user-experience-certificate-program/870#870 Nathanael Boehm 2009-11-23T05:51:37Z 2009-11-23T05:51:37Z

<p>I posted this on Twitter - people seem to agree that three days is pretty short for what the course claims to cover. I would hope people wouldn't come out the other end marketing themselves as UX professionals.</p>

http://uxexchange.com/questions/855/user-experience-certificate-program/1034#1034 Gavin Harris 2009-12-07T10:40:03Z 2009-12-07T10:40:03Z

<p>No three day course can qualify anyone as a User Experience (UX) professional in my opinion. Every project, client and challenge is different because technology and people are so diverse. For anyone starting in UX, I would suggest applying for a junior UX position, gain project experience, attend UX conferences and most importantly learn from your peers in the field.</p> <p>No three day course can certify anyone. The only certification in my eyes is a happy customer. If they are happy with your work, it’s likely their website is making more sales, their intranet is more efficient or communication channels are improved. And if you keep learning and promoting UX then you’ll feel certified for sure.</p>

http://uxexchange.com/questions/855/user-experience-certificate-program/1045#1045 Charles Boyung 2009-12-07T21:45:40Z 2009-12-07T21:45:40Z

<p>If you are going to look into certification at all, I would recommend the <a href="http://www.humanfactors.com/training/default.asp" rel="nofollow">Certified Usability Analyst training</a> with Human Factors International. It is much more in-depth, and a lot more in line with how certifications work for other disciplines.</p> <p>As for the credibility of HFI for providing certifications, I'll use programming as an example. I would put them between Microsoft with their developer certifications, and IEEE with the Certified Software Development Professional certification. They are in it for a profit, definitely, but they also have a fairly significant investment in growing the quality of the field overall, not just for their solutions.</p>

http://uxexchange.com/questions/855/user-experience-certificate-program/1085#1085 Tobias Kräntzer 2009-12-13T10:24:25Z 2009-12-13T10:24:25Z

<p>Depending on how much time you have, I would suggest you enroll in a Masters program, eg in Human Factors. However, the financial situation here in Germany, another one, because it costs nothing.</p>

http://uxexchange.com/questions/855/user-experience-certificate-program/3427#3427 Brian Still 2010-07-20T04:56:30Z 2010-07-20T04:56:30Z

<p>The CUEP course at Tech is a great jumpstart course for folks who are interested in user experience design and evaluation but haven't any background. Many folks who have taken the course gain enough interest to take additional courses at the graduate level in user experience. Tech has an online PhD program in the area. Or they go back to the workplace where they have enough knowledge that they can build on. You have to start somewhere.</p> <p>The approach for this course is also user-focused, unlike so many "heuristic heavy" implementations of user experience training, either in short courses or in academic programs. Real users, real tasks, real scenarios. There can't be anything wrong for a designer, communicator, manager, etc. to expose themselves to this when they haven't had that opportunity before.</p> <p>Nothing about this course promises to the student a three-day journey to what often takes years of training and interaction with users to gain. But it is an intense, affordable, useful starting place...</p>