User research
Importance: Essential (5 of 5)
Plans and runs interviews, surveys, and usability tests to understand users.
Course coverage
- UX Research, Usability Testing and Research Synthesis (planned)
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Product and design
UX/UI Designer
Designs digital product experiences that are useful, usable, and visually coherent.
Skill coverage
44%
Course coverage
25%
Skill coverage shows how much of the role's capability map already has a published course. Course coverage shows how much of the mapped course pipeline for this role has shipped.
- Role skills
- 9
- Published coverage
- 4
- Relevant courses
- 5
Capability map
Skills
Importance describes how central each capability is to the role. Course coverage shows where you can build the skill in the current OpenSkills catalog.
01
User experience
4 capabilities
Information architecture
Importance: Very important (4 of 5)
Structures content and navigation so users find what they need.
Course coverage
- UX Information Architecture
- Information Architecture, Content Modeling and Taxonomy Design (planned)
Interaction design
Importance: Essential (5 of 5)
Defines flows, states, and behaviors across user journeys.
Course coverage
- Interaction Design, Interaction Patterns and Micro-interactions (planned)
Accessibility
Importance: Very important (4 of 5)
Designs inclusive experiences that meet accessibility standards.
Course coverage
- Web Accessibility, Accessibility Testing and Auditing (planned)
02
User interface
5 capabilities
Visual design
Importance: Essential (5 of 5)
Applies typography, color, and layout to create coherent interfaces.
Course coverage
- Visual Design Fundamentals
- CSS
- Responsive Web Design (planned)
Design systems
Importance: Very important (4 of 5)
Builds and maintains reusable components and design tokens.
Course coverage
- Design SystemsFree
- Design System Governance (planned)
Prototyping
Importance: Very important (4 of 5)
Creates interactive prototypes to validate ideas before build.
Course coverage
- UX Prototyping, Prototype Validation Sprints (planned)
Design tools
Importance: Very important (4 of 5)
Works fluently in modern collaborative design tooling.
Course coverage
- Collaborative Design Workflows in Figma, UX Design Tools (planned)
Developer handoff
Importance: Important (3 of 5)
Communicates specs and collaborates with engineers through delivery.
Course coverage
- Design-to-Development Handoff
- Redlining and Handoff Documentation Standards (planned)
Learning path
Relevant courses
Core foundations
The concepts this role is built on.
- Design SystemsFree
- Design-to-Development Handoff
- UX Information Architecture
- Visual Design Fundamentals
- Information Architecture, Interaction Design, UX Prototyping, UX Research, Web Accessibility (planned)
Supporting knowledge
Adjacent knowledge that improves day-to-day judgment.
- CSS
- Accessibility Testing and Auditing, Collaborative Design Workflows in Figma, Content Modeling and Taxonomy Design, Design System Governance, Interaction Patterns and Micro-interactions, Prototype Validation Sprints, Redlining and Handoff Documentation Standards, Responsive Web Design, Usability Testing and Research Synthesis, UX Design Tools (planned)
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