Design apps, sites, and online experiences for users

Get Your Certificate in User Experience Design with a Treehouse Techdegree

Built on the Treehouse Learning Platform

Techdegree is built on the Treehouse learning style, with interactive videos, workspaces, quizzes and more.

Real-world Projects

After completing Techdegree, you’ll have a well-rounded portfolio of projects to demonstrate your newly-acquired expertise.

Interactive Quizzes And Code Challenges

Test your knowledge with quizzes or test out of subjects you've already mastered. Plus, use Treehouse's interactive Workspaces to create staging environments for the code you write.

In-depth Code Reviews

Peer reviews are an integral part of the Techdegree experience. Real-world job roles often require a lot of reviewing other people’s code and design—once you graduate Techdegree, you’ll have experience giving and receiving feedback.

What will you create?

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Project 1 | 13 Activities

Redesign a T-shirt Website

Analyze a website to better understand its design elements and determine which are working and which may need to be changed. Think critically about how the website looks and functions and provide clear suggestions for improvements.
Project 2 | 13 Activities

Wireframing a T-Shirt Website

Using the suggestions for improvements you noted in the previous project, update the website's design by sketching and then wireframing your ideas. Gather feedback on your initial designs before moving on to high-fidelity mockups.
Project 3 | 10 Activities

Mockup a T-Shirt Website

With wireframing complete and feedback received, move into the next stage of the design process by adding visual design to make your website redesign come to life.
Project 4 | 7 Activities

Research a Grocery App

Create a user research plan to gather feedback and data from your target audience. Analyze the data to determine an overall problem, or pain point, you will focus on solving.
Project 5 | 11 Activities

Prototype a Grocery App

Interactions in an app take time to code and can be difficult to change once implemented. It's much better to start with a clear design before jumping into code. This project will practice your ability to prototype apps.
Project 6 | 5 Activities

Testing a Grocery App

Complete a usability test to gather feedback on a prototype. Analyze the feedback and determine next steps.
Project 7 | 7 Activities

Designing a Task Flow

Ideate a small task flow for a business to business client looking to improve how their customers send an email campaign.
Project 8 | 8 Activities

Testing a Flow

Create a test a prototype of your designs to determine its strengths and weaknesses.
Project 9 | 5 Activities

Mockup and Present a Task Flow

Put the finishing touches on your email marketing task flow by adding color and other visual design elements. Prepare a presentation for stakeholders to show and explain your work.

Capstone: UX Design Portfolio

Utilize user experience design principles to create an online portfolio of your work.

Your Teachers

Chris Zabriskie
- Business
Julie Menge
- Business
Nick Pettit
- HTML
- Game Development
- Design
- Machine Learning
- Virtual Reality
May Kim
- Design
Dan Gorgone
- Business
- Design
- 21st Century Skills
Alena Holligan
- PHP
- Security
- WordPress
Kaleigh Veca
- Design
Hope Armstrong
- Design
Anya Mezak
- Design
Devin O'Bryan
- Design
Tomer Sharon
Mattox Shuler
- Design
Anwar Montasir
- Design
Michelle Zohlman
- 21st Century Skills
- Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI)