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Career Program: Game UX Designer + AI
If you're passionate about games and what makes them intuitive, challenging, and unforgettable, this certificate program turns that passion into a thriving career in the game industry. You'll focus on offering player-first experiences grounded in cognitive science. No prior design skills needed. You'll build on the empathy, problem-solving skills, and love of games you already have.
Game UX designers shape how players understand and interact with a game: menus, HUDs, controls, feedback, onboarding, progression, and moments of challenge. It's a human-centered design role focused on how a game feels to play.
Core skills: You'll master player-centered design, usability, user research, interaction design, UX strategy, and UI design for games. Learn to shape experiences that help players understand what to do, enjoy the challenge, and stay immersed.
AI skills: Employers want game UX designers who can use AI to research, prototype, and test faster and with higher quality, while applying critical thinking to optimize outputs and keeping players at the center of the development process.
Foundational design skills: You'll learn how to design for perception, memory, cognition, and emotion to offer experiences that work with how people naturally think and behave. This means your design decisions are grounded in how the human mind works.
Learn from 26 industry leaders who help you build your skills one step at a time.
Build 3-10 job-ready case studies with expert guidance to help you land your first UX design role.
This Program Also Prepares You for the Roles
This career program focuses on the role of Game UX Designer + AI, but the skills you learn apply to these roles too:
Game UX / UI Designer
Game UX Designer
Game UX Researcher
UX / UI Designer
UX Designer
Estimated Time to Complete
Study comfortably and flexibly at your own pace. Typically from 6 to 18 weeks.
Your Path to Game UX Designer + AI
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Foundational Courses
Every great career is built from the ground up. Start here and master the fundamentals that everything else depends on.
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Design for the 21st Century with Don Norman
6 days43Lessons
User Experience: The Beginner's Guide
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Design Thinking: The Ultimate Guide
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Core Courses for This Career Program
Now you move into the core of your career program. You'll deepen your expertise and build the job-ready skills that define you as a professional.
NewGame UX Design: The Ultimate Guide
5 days83Lessons
Human-Computer Interaction: The Foundations of UX Design
4523356Lessons
Perception and Memory in HCI and UX
4523337Lessons
Design for Thought and Emotion
4 days40Lessons
Mobile UI Design
3 days51Lessons
Visual Design: The Ultimate Guide
4 days57Lessons
Journey Mapping
3 days43Lessons
Conducting Usability Testing
4523327Lessons
Present Like a Pro: Communication Skills to Fast-Track Your Career
2 days46Lessons
Build a Standout UX/UI Portfolio: Land Your Dream Job
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Master Classes on AI to Deliver Better Results at Work
Now you step into our 1-hour Master Classes on AI, tailored to this career path. You learn how to finish tasks faster, raise the quality of your work, and free up time for the thinking only you can do. The result: you become the person who delivers more value in less time.
Human-Centered Design for AI
Get Ahead in Product Design with AI
How to Elevate the User Experience of AI with Design Patterns
Conversation Design: Practical Tips for AI Design
NewAI for Game UX: Speed Up Research, Ideas, and Prototypes
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Core Master Classes for This Career Program
With your new AI skills in place, you continue to your core Master Classes for this career program with leading industry experts. Each 1-hour session distills years of real-world experience into focused, practical insight you can apply immediately.
Level Up Your Career: How to Land a Job in the Game Industry
Game UX Design Foundations: Starter Edition
How to Become a Games User Researcher
How to Prototype for Game UX
UI Design for Games: Starter Edition
Game UX: Process and Pipeline Deep Dive
How (and When) to Run a Design Sprint
Storytelling Through Visual Design: A Practical Guide
The Power of Storytelling in User Experience Design
How to Design Engaging Products: Insights from Fortnite's UX
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Earn Your Career Program Certificate
Follow each step above, finish every course and master class, and you'll earn your IxDF Career Program Certificate. It's the credible proof of the skills you've built, signed by the Interaction Design Foundation and ready to share with employers.
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