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Professional Certificate in
Human-Centered Design for Work at a Distance
UBCx

What you will learn

  • Gain a foundational understanding of human-centered design concepts and strategies, including rapid prototyping and iterative problem-solving.
  • Use visual models such as personas and user experience journeys to help generate and prototype tangible, innovative ideas, and improve collaboration with others.
  • Apply human-centered design tools and frameworks to solve a variety of distributed work challenges and other ‘wicked’ problems.
  • Identify, reflect and apply lessons learned from others to transform your own work-at-home situation, and also help others transform their work and/or business from a distance.
Expert instruction
2 skill-building courses
Self-paced
Progress at your own speed
2 months
3 - 4 hours per week
Discounted price: $286.20
Pre-discounted price: $318USD
For the full program experience

Courses in this program

  1. UBCx's Human-Centered Design for Work at a Distance Professional Certificate

Meet your instructor
from University of British Columbia (UBCx)

Dr. Patrick Parra Pennefather
Assistant Professor
University of British Columbia

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