BCS Foundation Certificate In User Experience - India 

Module 1: Guiding Principles

• Articulate the Importance of Taking the Users' Perspective
• Key Principles of User-Centred Design
• ISO 9241 (Important Standard of Usability)
• User Experience Vs Usability
• Usability Vs User Acceptance Testing
• Benefits of Inclusive Design

Module 2: User Research

• Components of the Context of Use
• Potential Users of the System
• Describe the Kinds of Data that Should Be Collected During a Site Visit to Users
• Observation Vs Interpretation
• Key Principles of Contextual Inquiry
• Affinity Programming

Module 3: Illustrating the Context of Use

• How to Create Personas from User Research Data?
• Hick's Law
• How to Identify Users' Key Tasks?
• Explain the Rationale for Focusing on User Needs
• Elements of User Story

Module 4: Measuring Usability

• Define Usability
• Measures of Usability
• Role of Design Experiments in Validated Learning
• Strengths and Weaknesses of Multivariate Testing
• Value of Iterative Design
• Good and Bad User Experiences

Module 5: Information Architecture

• Information Architecture (IA)
• Schemes for Classifying and Organising Information
• LATCH Model
• Organise, Structure, and Label Content
• Carrying Out an Open and a Closed Card Sort
• Implementation Model, Mental Model, and Conceptual Model
• State the Concept of Affordance

Module 6: Interaction Design 

• Different User Interface Design Patterns
• Choose the Correct Interactive Control in a UI Design
• Fitts' Law
• Concept of Progressive Disclosure
• Interaction Design Vs Information Architecture
• User Interface Consistency is an Important Design Principle

Module 7: Visual Design 

• Fundamental Principles of Visual Design
• Identify Good and Poor Page Layout
• Eye-Tracking
• Metaphorical Representations in Visual Design

Module 8: User Interface Prototyping  

• Prototyping
• Different Types of Prototypes
• Choose Between Different Types of Prototype
• Appropriate Type of Prototype for the Phase of Design
• Differences Between Prototypes and Sketches
• Sketch Paper Prototypes

Module 9: Usability Evaluation  

• Nielsen's Usability Heuristics
• Different Kinds of Usability Evaluation
• Plan Usability Evaluations to Test Design Hypotheses
• Record the Data from Usability Evaluations
• Distinguish Between High and Low Severity Usability Problems
• Moderating a Usability Test
• Usability Inspection Vs Usability Test
• Good and Poor Tasks for a Usability Test
• Difference Between Observation and Interpretation
• W3C's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines