User research
Importance: Essential (5 of 5)
Plans and runs interviews, surveys, and usability tests to understand users.
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Product and design
UX/UI Designer
Designs digital product experiences that are useful, usable, and visually coherent.
Skill coverage
100%
Course coverage
88%
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
- 9
- Relevant courses
- 23
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.
UX/UI Designer capability map
01
User experience
4 capabilities
Information architecture
Importance: Very important (4 of 5)
Structures content and navigation so users find what they need.
Interaction design
Importance: Essential (5 of 5)
Defines flows, states, and behaviors across user journeys.
Accessibility
Importance: Very important (4 of 5)
Designs inclusive experiences that meet accessibility standards.
Course coverage
- Web Accessibility
- Accessibility Testing and Auditing
- Mobile Accessibility (planned)
02
User interface
5 capabilities
Visual design
Importance: Essential (5 of 5)
Applies typography, color, and layout to create coherent interfaces.
Course coverage
Design systems
Importance: Very important (4 of 5)
Builds and maintains reusable components and design tokens.
Course coverage
- Design SystemsFree
- Design System Governance
- Storybook Fundamentals
- Design Tokens (planned)
Prototyping
Importance: Very important (4 of 5)
Creates interactive prototypes to validate ideas before build.
Course coverage
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
- Figma Fundamentals (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
- Design Tokens (planned)
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Learning path
Relevant courses
Core foundations
The concepts this role is built on.
- Design SystemsFree
- Design-to-Development Handoff
- Information ArchitectureFree
- Interaction DesignFree
- Service Design and Journey Mapping
- Usability Testing and Research Synthesis
- UX Information Architecture
- UX Prototyping
- UX Research
- Visual Design Fundamentals
- Web Accessibility
- Design Tokens, Figma Fundamentals (planned)
Supporting knowledge
Adjacent knowledge that improves day-to-day judgment.
- Accessibility Testing and Auditing
- Collaborative Design Workflows in Figma
- Content Modeling and Taxonomy Design
- CSS
- Design System Governance
- Interaction Patterns and Micro-interactions
- Prototype Validation Sprints
- Redlining and Handoff Documentation Standards
- Responsive Web Design
- Storybook Fundamentals
- UX Design Tools
- UX Writing and Content Design
- Mobile Accessibility (planned)
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