- Define the field of UX and explain why it’s important for consumers and businesses.

   - Understand foundational concepts in UX design, such as user-centered design, the design process, accessibility, and equity-focused design.

   - Identify the factors that contribute to great user experience design.

   - Review common job responsibilities of entry-level UX designers and teams that they work with.

   - Explore job opportunities and career paths within the field of user experience. 

   - Explain why design sprints are an important and useful part of a UX designer’s work.

  - Describe common UX research methods.

  - Identify and account for biases in UX research.

  - Empathize with users to understand their needs and pain points.

   - Create empathy maps, user personas, user stories, and user journey maps to understand user needs.

   - Develop problem statements to define user needs.

   - Generate ideas for possible solutions to user problems.

   - Conduct competitive audits.

   - Start designing a mobile app, a new project to include in your professional UX portfolio.

   - Plan a UX research study, including the project background, research goals, research questions, Key Performance Indicators, methodology, participants, and script.

   - Explain the importance of respecting privacy and user data.

   - Conduct a moderated and unmoderated usability study.

   - Take notes during a usability study.

   - Create affinity diagrams to group and analyze data.

   - Synthesize observations from research and come up with insights.

   - Develop persuasive presentation skills to share research insights.

   - Modify low-fidelity designs based on research insights.

   - Continue to design a mobile app to include in your professional portfolio.

   - Build mockups and high-fidelity prototypes in Figma.

   - Define and apply common visual design elements and principles.

   - Demonstrate how design systems can be used to organize, standardize, and enhance designs.

   - Understand the role of design critique sessions and feedback while iterating on designs.

   - Learn how to hand off finished design projects to engineering teams.

   - Complete mobile app designs to include in a professional UX portfolio.

   - Apply each step of the UX design process (empathize, define, ideate, prototype, test) to create a responsive website.

   - Develop designs in a popular design tool, Adobe XD.

   - Plan information architecture and create sitemaps for website designs.

   - Apply common layouts for web pages.

   - Plan and conduct a usability study to gather feedback about designs.

   - Iterate on designs based on research insights.

   - Work with design systems in Adobe XD.

   - Add a new design project to your professional UX portfolio.

   - [Optional] Create or update a UX-focused resume.

   - [Optional] Learn how to search for and apply to introductory-level jobs in the field of UX.

 - Apply each step of the UX design process (empathize, define, ideate, prototype, test) to create designs focused on social good.

   - Identify the differences between dedicated mobile apps and responsive web apps.

   - Understand progressive enhancement and graceful degradation approaches for designing across devices.

   - Build wireframes, mockups, and low-fidelity and high-fidelity prototypes in Figma or Adobe XD.

   - Add a new design project to your professional UX portfolio.

   - Create your portfolio of design work for job applications.

   - Join and participate in online UX communities.

   - Interview for an entry-level UX design job.

   - Determine if freelance design work is a good career fit for you.