POST GRADUATE

PROGRAM IN
USER EXPERIENCE
DESIGN
• 6 MONTHS
• ONLINE | LIVE CLASSES

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OVERVIEW
The age of screens is upon us.
Mobile phones, laptops, tablets,
smartwatches, and intelligent
appliance displays now hold the
attention of billions of users.

88% of online consumers are The Post Graduate Program in User

less likely to return to a site after Experience Design is a hands-on,
they had a bad experience. rigorous program offered by IIT
- Econsultancy Report Bombay in collaboration with Great
Learning. Through this 6-month
Users have become more program, learners will gain the skills
sophisticated, and have high and techniques required to kickstart
expectations of the products and or grow a career in UX Design. The
services they use. Companies comprehensive curriculum has been
looking to provide delightful designed by IIT Bombay to enable
customer experiences need qualified learners to build strong foundational
professionals who can blur the line skills, imbibe industry best practices,
between technology and a human- and create a portfolio of their work.
centered experience.
The program has been designed
with a strong focus on important
Every $1 invested in UX results in
foundational skills to ensure that
a return of $100 (RoI = 9,900%).
learners master techniques by working
- Forrester Report
on hands-on assignments
and projects. Those who successfully
The demand for UX professionals to complete this program will become
create customer-friendly experiences proficient UX designers, capable of
has increased now more than ever. producing delightful user experiences.
Aspiring professionals can build a Upon program completion, learners
rewarding career in User Experience can also make the most of career
by solving real user problems support to enable them to build
through a combination of research, successful careers.
prototyping, analysis and optimisation.

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ABOUT IIT BOMBAY
IIT Bombay has grown from strength to strength to emerge as one of the top
technical universities in the world. The institute is recognised worldwide as a leader
in the field of engineering education and research.

India’s Top-Ranked University #172 #37

QS Global University QS Global Word Asian University
Rankings 2022 Rankings 2021 Rankings 2021

Reputed for the outstanding calibre INDUSTRY

of students graduating from its
undergraduate and postgraduate
ACADEMICS
programs, the institute attracts RESEARCH
the best students from the country
for its bachelors, masters and BUSINESS
doctoral programs. GOVERNMENT

Research and academic programs at SOCIAL DOMAINS

IIT Bombay are driven by outstanding
faculty, many of whom are reputed Over the years, the institute has
for their research contributions created a niche for its innovative
internationally. IIT Bombay faculty short-term courses through
have won many prestigious awards continuing education and distance
and recognitions, including the education programmes.
Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar and
Padma Awards.

The alumni have distinguished

themselves through their
achievements in and contributions to:

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PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS
WEEKEND CLASSES BY
6-MONTH LIVE ONLINE IIT-B FACULTY &
PROGRAM SESSIONS INDUSTRY GUESTS

60+ HOURS OF
250+
LIVE CLASSES IMMERSIVE
HOURS OF
& INTERACTIVE PROJECT
LEARNING
SESSIONS

WHAT MAKES THIS PROGRAM UNIQUE?

• COMPREHENSIVE CURRICULUM Designing for AR/VR, and
DESIGNED BY TOP FACULTY Web Typography.
The curriculum has been designed
• CERTIFICATE FROM IIT BOMBAY
and created by distinguished
Upon successfully completing the
faculty from IDC School of Design,
course work and assessments,
IIT Bombay.
participants will be awarded a
• WORLD-CLASS LEARNING certificate of completion from
MATERIAL FROM IIT BOMBAY IIT Bombay.
Learn industry best practices
• LEARN BY DOING
with case studies designed by IIT
Work on assignments and
Bombay faculty through extensive
an immersive project to build
research on industry best practices.
and showcase a digital
• ONLINE LIVE CLASSES BY design portfolio.
DISTINGUISHED FACULTY
• LEARN THE
The course provides an opportunity
UX DESIGN TOOLKIT
to participate in weekly live
Gain hands-on experience in
lectures conducted
industry-endorsed frameworks and
by distinguished faculty renowned
widely used tools such as Figma,
for HCI (Human Computer
Invision and Marvel.
Interaction) studies.

• LEARN FROM INDUSTRY EXPERTS

Learn from accomplished industry
experts and build practical skills in
UX design on topics like Emergent
User Design, Microinteractions,

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WHO THIS PROGRAM IS FOR
This program is for people who want to enter or grow in the field of user
experience design. It does not assume any prior knowledge of or formal education
in design, nor does it require people to be technical (programming knowledge is
not required).

The program is best suited for:

• An aspiring User Interface or User • A product manager responsible for

Experience designer the delivery of software products

• Professionals in a design role • An account executive responsible

with little or no formal exposure for client interaction in the
to design IT industry

• A design professional with • Freelance or independent

experience in another design field designers who want to formally
(e.g., graphic design, industrial learn UX design
designers) and now wants to
design interactive products

• A software professional with

interest in but no formal training in
user experience design

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PROGRAM
OUTCOMES
This program is for people who want to
enter or grow in the field of user interface
or user experience design.

On program completion, learners

will be able to:
• Use a user-centred design process to
create effective user experiences
• Conduct a well-formulated user study,
practice interview techniques with
real users, analyse findings and create
design ideas
• Prioritise user problems, needs,
opportunities and constraints, create
a strategy and set design goals
• Explore, brainstorm and create
compelling user interfaces and
interaction techniques
• Effectively use the principles and
heuristics to design useful, usable and
desirable interactive products
and services
• Appropriately wireframe, prototype
and evaluate designs with
potential users
• Analyze the results and iterate
to improve
• Use the tools of the trade for
wireframing, prototyping and
testing designs.
On successful completion of the program,
learners will become prime candidates
for roles such as UX Designer, Product
Designer, UX Researcher, and more.

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CURRICULUM
The curriculum is designed by experienced and
distinguished faculty of the IDC School of Design,
IIT Bombay. The modules of the curriculum cover the
entire User Experience process of User Research and
Analysis, UX Design Creation, Design Testing, and
Implementation.

The pedagogy will be highly interactive by leveraging

technology, and will consist of a judicious blend
of lectures and learning by doing. Apart from
individual assignments, the participants will work on
an immersive group project. This is an opportunity
to apply the concepts and methods learned over
the course of the program in a project, that can be
showcased in a design portfolio.

CURRICULUM OUTLINE
USER RESEARCH UX DESIGN
• Contextual Inquiry • Design Thinking
• Work Models & Interpretation of • User Experience, Conceptual
Interviews Models, User Models
• Affinity Diagrams • UX Goal Setting,
• Quantitative User Research: Surveys Personas & Scenarios
& Interpretation of Results • Product Vision & Product
Experience Goals

UI DESIGN DESIGN EVALUATION

• Heuristics & Principles of HCI • Planning Design Evaluations
• UI Design Principles • Design Evaluation Methods
• Usability - Typography, • Design Analysis & Outcomes
Space, Layout, etc. • HCI in Software Engineering
• Gestalt Principles • Web & Mobile Design Testing
• Prototyping
• Design Systems

SELF- PACED COURSES

• Front-End Web Development Essentials
• Designer’s Toolkit: Wireframing, Prototyping, Testing Tools

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DIGITAL DESIGN PORTFOLIO
As a UX designer it is important to showcase your projects and assignments in a
logical and aesthetic manner. Having a digital portfolio is essential to demonstrate
your design skills to potential clients or recruiters. Over the course of the program,
you will create and build your own digital portfolio of projects to demonstrate your
understanding and showcase your skills.

UX DESIGNER’S TOOLKIT
As a part of this program, you will use industry standard tools to apply practical
design concepts that illustrate user flows and experiences.

INDUSTRY TOOLS
WIREFRAMING Figma
UI AND PROTOTYPING Marvel/Figma
TESTING TOOLS Marvel
DESIGN HANDOFF Invision/Marvel

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ABOUT IDC SCHOOL
OF DESIGN
The IDC School of Design at technologies. With determination to
IIT Bombay offers an excellent shape the minds of students to be
environment for academics, research more creative, analytic and responsible
and applications in the field of in their approaches, programs are
design. Education programs at consistently redesigned to include
IDC are a unique mix of pedagogic emerging design practices - shaped
experimentation with a pragmatic by newer technologies, ideologies,
design approach which blends hard- and philosophies that seek to achieve
core problem solving with design a balance between theory and project
research. New thoughts, philosophies, based learning. The centre interacts
and research on multiple aspects of with industries and institutions for
design are integrated to continuously promotion and awareness of design.
revitalise academic programmes. the area of design practice, IDC also
offers professional design consultancy
The primary goal of IDC is to address
and advisory services to industries
the unmet needs of the population
and organisations.
using essential and emerging

FACULTY
and rural India and on a variety of
platforms including desktops, the
web, mobile phones, ATMs, and
custom hardware.
DR. ANIRUDHA
JOSHI Anirudha has a B.Tech in Electrical
Engineering, an M.Des. in Visual
Communication from the Industrial
Anirudha Joshi is a professor in the
Design Centre, and a Ph.D in
IDC School of Design, IIT Bombay,
Computer Science and Engineering,
where he teaches Human-Computer
all from IIT Bombay. His Ph.D thesis
Interaction (HCI) design.
was about integration of HCI activities
Anirudha is involved in designing in software engineering for usability
interactive products for emergent goals achievement. This mix of
users in developing economies, with engineering and design backgrounds
a significant focus on Indian users. has given him a unique perspective in
His work has been for users in urban the multi-disciplinary field of HCI.

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CERTIFICATE
Upon successful completion of this program, learners will receive
a PG Certificate from IIT Bombay.

Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

Continuing Education &
Quality Improvement Programmes (CE & QIP)

CERTIFICATE
This is to certify that

Your Name
has successfully completed the CEP course on
User Experience Design
conducted by IIT Bombay during January 2022 to July 2022

Prof. Siddhartha Ghosh 65da5 Prof. Anirudha Joshi

Professor-in-Charge (CE & QIP) To verify, scan the QR code or visit http://www.cep.iitb.ac.in/cep/nverify Course Coordinator

*This certificate is for representative purposes only.

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E-PORTFOLIO CAREER GUIDANCE

An e-portfolio is a snapshot Get access to career
of all the projects done and advancement insights from
skills acquired during the industry experts who’ve
program that is shareable transitioned to roles in the
across social media channels. industry. Benefit from their
This will help you showcase guidance on how to build
your expertise to a rewarding career.
potential recruiters.

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ADMISSIONS
ELIGIBILITY
Graduates (10+2+3) or Diploma
Holders (only 10+2+3) from a
recognised university (UGC/AICTE/
DEC/AIU/State Government/
recognised international universities)
in Science, Design, Arts, Humanities or
Engineering disciplines with at least 1
year of work experience (after diploma
or graduation).

ADMISSIONS
PROCESS
1. Register your interest by filling in
the online application form
for the program.

2. Shortlisted candidates will

be required to go through an
admissions test and a screening
call with the Admission
Director’s office.

3. Selected candidates will be

provided with an offer of admission
to the program. Candidates
are required to confirm their
participation in the program by
paying the admission fee.

PROGRAM FEES
The tuition fee for the program
shall be ` 1,30,000 + GST

Learning is now made easy with

financing options at 0% interest rate,
0% processing fee and longer tenure
of up to 60 months. Please contact the
admissions office for more details.

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