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January 12, 2026
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The Program

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The UX/UI program is a professional diploma that will introduce you to user experience and user interface design (UX/UI) and provide you with best practices and conventions through a design-centric approach. You will receive skill-based instruction centered around “Design Thinking” processes and agile production, covering everything from user research and defining project strategy to developing sitemaps and wireframes. You’ll gain valuable insights into user experience and user interface design, with real-life applications from various industries.

No Design Experience?

Just take our introduction to design course and get ready to kick off your UX/UI journey!

Unique Benefits Tailored to Your Needs!

Learn UX/UI even if you don't have design experience.
Design intuitive human-centered experiences.
Benefit from Arabic speaking instructors.
Join the first regional academic UX/UI program.
Get certified in less than a year.
Become an expert in regionally relevant UX/UI designs (Right-to-left interface such as Arabic).

Is This Program For You?

You are

  • A professional working in tech and design agencies
  • A graphic/UI designer or instructional designer looking to enhance your expertise.
  • An entrepreneur aiming to transform your concept(s) into concrete prototypes for investor presentations.
  • A young professional seeking to gain a new highly in-demand skill.
You have

  • An undergraduate bachelor’s degree from a recognized institution of higher learning.
  • The English Language Proficiency Requirement (ELPR).

What Skills Will You Gain?

Learn about user-centered design principles, personas, and user journey mapping.
Engage in hands-on projects and real-life case studies from various industries.
Design visually appealing and user-friendly interfaces.
Design both left-to-right (English) and right-to-left (Arabic) interfaces to meet regional needs.
Use and learn advanced techniques in industry-standard design and prototyping tools like Figma.
Master the art of bringing your ideas to life, creating tangible prototypes.

Testimonials

Ghada Yamout

The UX/UI diploma added to my existing knowledge and helped reinforce key principles with updated tools and methodologies. It offered a practical framework that I was able to apply directly to my work.

Ghada Yamout | UX/UI '24

Head of Creative - Dar Al Handasah

Merilin Ekzarkova

I enjoyed the program and found the course material to be interesting. Specifically, the hands on case studies based in real world projects.

Merilin Ekzarkova | UX/UI '24

UX/ UI designer - The Octopedia Den

Tania Araj

I didn’t know anything about UX/UI before joining, but this program really helped me learn a lot. It’s a great skill to add as a graphic designer, and I’m glad I took the leap. It was a bit intense at times—you really need to stay on top of the lectures and assignments—but it’s worth it. I’d definitely recommend it to anyone looking to learn something new and useful for their future.

Tania Araj | UX/UI '24

Senior Art Director

Hussein Harb

The UX/UI program was incredibly valuable. It gave me practical skills and a solid understanding of design principles that I can directly apply in my role as a product manager. The hands-on approach, combined with expert guidance, has boosted my confidence in delivering user-centered features.

Hussein Harb | UX/UI '24

Software Project and Product Manager - Oryx Dental Softwar

Dina Rifai

I'm in my fifties and hadn't worked in twenty years. Now I'm a UX/UI designer." The program was sometimes overwhelming, but included practical training that actually prepared us for real work in a competitive field. Before I even graduated, I landed my first freelance project. I was solving actual problems for real people and getting paid for my expertise. If you're sitting there thinking you're too old or too far behind, stop overthinking it. Just start

Dina Rifai | UX/UI '24

Curriculum

Prerequisite for non-designers

Creating intuitive visual designs, user interfaces (UI), and design elements is essential to emphasize the utility of any product, integrate and evoke users’ motions when interacting with or using the product and its interface. This online course aims to prepare beginners and non-designers to have a critical eye while exploring design theories, tools, and practices. This online course aims to prepare beginners and non-designers to develop a critical eye while exploring design theories, tools, and practices. It brings a design-centric approach to products and teaches the principles of designs from the perspective of a non-designer looking to enhance their skills’ set and collaborate on interactive projects. The course outlines the main principles of design, demonstrates the stages of designs, teaches the best design practices, and provides insights on how to start understanding design through the lenses of designers.

Core Courses

The ever-changing nature of today's organizations and the evolving needs of individuals in response to 21st-century complex challenges call for innovative and human-centered problem-solving approaches. This online course is tailored to support aspiring entrepreneurs and professionals interested in exploring innovation practices within organizations. The course is carefully crafted to provide students with human-centered design research methods and creative problem-solving tools. Its primary goal is to enhance participants' capacity to frame stakeholders' needs, identify opportunities for organizational change, and ultimately generate innovative and viable solutions to address these challenges.

Methodologies and UX Processes:
this course introduces students to the fundamentals of User Experience (UX) design and the processes involved in designing interactive products. It covers the principles, methodologies, and processes of UX design, teaching students to apply human-centered design and design thinking methods to create effective user experiences using empathy at the core. Starting with research, learners engage in heuristic analysis, develop information architecture, generate sitemaps, conduct card-sorting, create personas, map user journeys, draft use cases and scenarios, identify user flows, and delve into wireframing and low-fidelity prototyping.

Web & mobile user experience design: this course empowers students to design user-focused interfaces in a professional format. It covers the core principles and distinctions in designing for web versus designing for mobile. Students learn to identify, focus, and improve interaction design, information architecture, usability, and user journeys. Leveraging an iterative process rooted in human behavior, psychology, mental models, and cognitive science, they acquire the skills to design purposeful and context-aware interfaces.

Designing intuitive user interfaces for web & mobile: in this course, students delve into the essentials and industry standards of user interface design (UI). It emphasizes the pivotal role of UI and provides an overview of its fundamental theories and concepts. The course facilitates the discovery of UI elements and components, along with the main tools and techniques used. Students gain proficiency in methods for analyzing, critiquing, designing, and tailoring user interface solutions for both web and mobile applications as well as heuristic evaluation to reflect and measure business, users, and usability goals.

Evaluating and Optimizing Products and Experiences: This course tackles usability testing and optimization as methods to evaluate and enhance the user experience. With a focus on achieving ease of use, efficiency, effectiveness, and user satisfaction, students learn how to plan, test, and optimize the usability testing for the interface or product at hand. They closely examine all features, interactive components, and visual elements with a representative group of the target audience. They learn the process of determining, analyzing, reporting, and ultimately ensuring an optimal user experience, ensuring that the target users can effortlessly and intuitively engage with the user interfaces.

In this course, students learn the intricacies of UX management and the specific strategies essential for effective project management. Beyond design thinking, they explore how UX strategy influences businesses and explore various methodologies within product development, user experience functions, and organizational models. They learn how to use acquired principles and concepts such as visibility, desirability, findability, constraints, mental models, mapping, and feedback, as effective strategies within organizations and/or projects processes.

Flexible Tuition Fees

Pay As You Go

Pay for the courses you register each term.
Base price per course: $600
Early Bird
Pay in full and benefit from a 10% reduction on tuition fees.
Total program tuition: $3,600 or $3,900*
(*for learners that need to take the prerequisite course)
Early bird offers and corporate tuition rates are available, contact us for more information.
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Choose Your Ideal Study Plan!

9 months | full-time study plan
Ideal for ambitious individuals with a strong determination to complete their studies, recommended for those who have no other commitments, allowing them to dedicate themselves fully on their educational goals.
1 year | part-time study plan
Ideal for working individuals, our program provides the balance needed between pursuing your studies and managing your professional commitments, by taking only 1 course per semester.
Next Start Date

January 12, 2026

Join our upcoming UX/UI online diploma, and elevate your design skills!
Deadline to apply is January 7, 2026 Hurry!

Non-designers can take the prerequisite course at their own pace throughout the year. If you are planning to join the Fall 2025-26 cohort starting on January 12, 2026 then you will need to complete the prerequisite 2 weeks before the semester begins.

Need more information?
Want to learn more about the UX/UI program? Interested in a personalized 1-on-1 session with our enrollment coaches? Schedule a session today!

Instructors

Maher Berro

Interaction designer
Expert in UX, UI, and human centered design

Lara Chikhani

Design & Product Management Lead
Expert in experience design and strategy

Stephanie Assio

Experience & innovation consultant
Expert in human-centered design research and transformation

Tarek El Khatib

Associate Experience Designer at epam, a big tech company.
Design expert with over 15 years of experience in UX

Sabah Haider

User Experience Research Lead
Expert in Human Centered Product Development and Design Thinking

Romy Saber

Chief marketing officer at Suyool, a fintech
Expert in user centered design & technology

Dana Al Batlouni

Director of the Interdisciplinary Design Practice Program (IDPP)
Expert in user experience research and human centered design

Maher Berro

Interaction designer
Expert in UX, UI, and human centered design

Stephanie Assio

Experience & innovation consultant
Expert in human-centered design research and transformation

Lara Chikhani

Design & Product Management Lead
Expert in experience design and strategy

Tarek El Khatib

Associate Experience Designer at epam, a big tech company.
Design expert with over 15 years of experience in UX

Sabah Haider

User Experience Research Lead
Expert in Human Centered Product Development and Design Thinking

Romy Saber

Chief marketing officer at Suyool, a fintech
Expert in user centered design & technology

Frequently Asked Questions

Applicants to this diploma may provide evidence for RUSE by submitting a satisfactory and valid score for one of the following tests: AUB-EN, TOEFL iBT, IELTS (Academic), or Duolingo.

Important Note: Applicants who have graduated from a university where English is the primary language of instruction may be exempted from demonstrating RUSE.

Test Minimum Score Validity
AUB-EN 32 1 year
TOEFL iBT 80 2 years
IELTS (Academic) 6.5 2 years
Duolingo 120 2 years

No! You can take our one credit prerequisite course “Design Principles / UI Design for Non-designers” to prepare you to have a critical eye while exploring design theories, tools, and practices. The course outlines the main principles of design, demonstrates the design stages, and teaches you the best design practices. You will be ready to kickstart your UX/UI program once you complete this prerequisite successfully.

CThe courses consist of pre-recorded lectures that you can access at your convenience. Each course includes one online live interactive session per week, providing you with the opportunity to interact with both your instructors and fellow students. All live sessions are recorded in case you cannot attend.

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Pay by cash at the AUB cashier’s office
In this case, we will issue an invoice for you to provide at the cashier’s office at College Hall.

Notes

  • Payments can only be made in USD.
  • Corporate tuition rates are available. Schedule a call for more information.

Upon program completion, you will receive a professional diploma certificate issued by the Maroun Semaan Faculty of Engineering and Architecture (MSFEA), signed by the Dean of MSFEA and the Director of the Abdulla al Ghurair Hub for Digital Teaching and Learning.

The diploma does not state “online“. All our programs are offered by AUB faculty members in collaboration with industry experts and offer quality education while utilizing advanced tools and technology to facilitate online learning.

No, the diploma does not have an expiry date.

Currently, there are no financial aid or scholarship offers for online programs. Alternatively, you can benefit from the early bird seat by paying the full tuition fee before the start of the program to receive a 10% deduction.

Refunds are allowed only within seven days of the course start date. This allows you get a feel of the course content and assess if this program is a good fit for you.

The minimum passing grade for the courses within this diploma is 70 (C+).

  • Our professional diplomas focus on upskilling you in areas that are in high demand in the job market and equipping you with practical skills and knowledge.
  • These programs also have an academic bearing, meaning you may be able to waive up to six credits should you wish to enroll in a master’s degree at AUB.
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