User Experience Design Capstone
Capstone Certificate in User Experience Design
Is this program right for you?
Want to design human-centered technologies and create more natural, intuitive, and satisfying user experiences? The graduate-level capstone certificate in User Experience Design gets you there in just one year, backed by the prestige and quality you expect from UW–Madison.
- This certificate uniquely merges expertise in information, media, people, and technology
- Community is an important component. Students enter in a cohort, work together across all classes, form teams, comment, and contribute to virtual feedback sessions
- Learn how to contribute to the development of new technologies, assess user interactions, create conceptual designs and apply your growing skills to real projects
Education that works for you
Learn to increase user satisfaction and improve the encounters between users and interactive systems with a one-year online graduate certificate in User Experience Design from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Program type
Capstone certificate
Certificate awarded
Capstone Certificate in User Experience Design
Commitment
1 year
Tuition
$1,200 per credit
Format
Online
Credits
10 graduate-level credits
Admission terms
Program admits for fall term
Offered by
STEM opt eligible
No
International eligibility
Yes, with restrictions.
Application deadlines
Fall 2025
- Deadline: August 15, 2025
Fall 2026
- Deadline: August 15, 2026
Fall 2027
- Deadline: August 15, 2027
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User Experience Design Capstone
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What you’ll learn
Immerse yourself in the user’s perspective with the User Experience Design Capstone program. Through a blend of lectures, workshops and a potential real-world project, you’ll gain the skills needed to design and test user-centered interfaces and services.
- Service design
- Interface design
- Usability testing and evaluation
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