IBM UI/UX Designer Professional Certificate
Issued by IBM. Below is what it costs, how long it lasts, and what it actually signals — with the date we checked.
IBM UI/UX Designer Professional Certificate
IBM · Coursera Professional Certificate
Free to learn · paid certificate Recognized
| Cost | Not published Coursera subscription pricing; no fixed fee is printed on the page, and the page serves almost nothing without JavaScript, so we cannot read one. |
|---|---|
| Validity | Does not expire. |
| Renewal | None — a completion certificate does not lapse. |
| Assessment | Multi-course series with graded work and portfolio projects |
| Proctored | No |
| Verify via | Coursera |
| Cost per active year | Unknowncannot be computed — Coursera does not print a fixed price |
Entry-level design credential with portfolio output, which matters more than the certificate itself in this field.
In design, the PORTFOLIO is the credential. This is worth doing for the projects it makes you build, not for the certificate at the end — and Coursera's "enroll for free" means free to start, not a free certificate.
Verified 2026-07-28 · Official page
How we know
Present in the operator-maintained master directory, added and verified by the operator 2026-07-27. Re-checked with a headless browser on 2026-07-28: the fee is still not published on the issuer's own page, so it stays recorded as unknown.
Last verified 2026-07-28 · https://www.coursera.org/professional-certificates/ibm-ux-ui-designer
Free preparation
Free resources first. Everything below is free to use; the exam itself is the paid part.
Usability 101 (Nielsen Norman Group)
Free to learn · no certificate
The standard plain-English introduction to what usability actually means, from the research group the field defers to. Free to read; NN/g's courses are separately and expensively paid.
Verified 2026-07-27
ARIA Authoring Practices Guide (W3C)
Free to learn · no certificate
How interface patterns should behave for assistive technology, from the body that writes the standard. Free and open. Accessibility is the part of this job most portfolios skip and most employers ask about.
Verified 2026-07-27
Atlassian Design System
Free to learn · no certificate
A production design system published in full — foundations, components, and the reasoning behind them. Free to read, and closer to how design works inside a company than any tutorial.
Verified 2026-07-27
Used by these roles
- UX Designer — You decide how a product should work for the person using it, then prove the decision with evidence.