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NN/g UX Certification (UXC) Exam Guide
Validates knowledge of user experience practice, including research, interaction design, management and AI applications.
There is no single syllabus. You pick 5 live courses from NN/g's catalog, attend each in full, then pass its 30-question online exam within 35 days. Choose courses that match your work or one specialty, take good notes, and sit each exam while the course is fresh.
Understand the exam
Syllabus
Pass 5 courses in one group to add that specialty, and some courses count in more than one group.
Artificial Intelligence
- Accelerating Research with AI
- AI for Design Workflows
- AI Product Strategy
- Context Engineering: Shaping AI-Generated Designs
- Designing AI Experiences
- Efficient UX: Doing More with Less
- UX Writing: Foundations and AI-Assisted Techniques
Interaction Design
- Application Design for Web and Desktop
- Architecting and Managing Effective Design Systems
- Designing Complex Apps for Specialized Domains
- Design Thinking Essentials
- Effective Ideation Techniques for UX Design
- Emerging Patterns in Interface Design
- Information Architecture
- Interaction Design
- Mobile User Experience
- Omnichannel Journeys and Customer Experience
- Persuasive and Emotional Design
- Storytelling to Present UX Work
- The Human Mind and Usability
- UX Basic Training
- UX Deliverables
- Visual Design Fundamentals
- Web Page UX Design
Research
- Analytics and User Experience
- Analyzing Qualitative UX Data
- Assessing UX Designs Using Proven Principles
- Discovery: Building the Right Thing
- Heatmaps and Visual Analytics for Website Optimization
- Journey Mapping to Understand Customer Needs
- Measuring UX and ROI
- Personas: Turn User Data Into User-Centered Design
- ResearchOps: Scaling User Research
- Statistics for UX
- Survey Design and Execution
- Usability Testing
- User Interviews
- UX Research Methods: From Observation to Insight
Example scenario: Your team wants to know why sign-ups dropped after a redesign. Which research method would you run first, and with how many participants?
Management
- Becoming a UX Coach
- Becoming a UX Strategist
- Content Strategy and Governance
- Customer Journey Management
- DesignOps: Scaling UX Design
- Design Tradeoffs and UX Decision-Making
- Efficient UX: Doing More with Less
- Facilitating UX Workshops
- Global UX: Designing and Leading Across Cultures
- Leading Highly Effective UX Teams
- Lean UX and Agile
- Mastering Influence
- New UX Managers
- Product and UX: Building Partnerships for Better Outcomes
- ResearchOps: Scaling User Research
- Service Blueprinting
- Successful Stakeholder Relationships
- UX Leader: Essential Skills for Any UX Practitioner
- UX Roadmaps
Example scenario: A product manager wants to skip research to hit a deadline. How would you make the case for a small study?
NN/g UX Certification specialties and courses · 56 live courses as of October 2026
Format
- Questions
- 30 per exam
- Duration
- 60 min
- Passing score
- 80%
- Delivery
- Online
- Languages
- English
Question types
Multiple choice. Choose the best answer from four options, usually for a short real-world situation from the course.
CertUp example
Five of six participants in a usability test miss the new filter button on a product list page. What is the best next step?
Show answer
Make the button more noticeable and test the change with new participants. A problem that most participants share is a clear usability issue, and a follow-up test shows whether the fix works.
Eligibility and booking
Book a live course, attend all of it, then take its exam from your NN/g account within 35 days.
Make a study plan
Choose your 5 courses first, ideally around one specialty or your biggest skill gaps. The live courses set most of the time.
Most candidates spend 40–60 hours. Plan for the low end if you take each exam right after its course; plan for the high end if you review your notes before each exam or are new to UX.
- 1Understand the examRead the syllabus and format, check you’re eligible and pick a target date.2 h
- 3Learn the core conceptsWork through one main course or book, topic by topic.27 h
- 4Practice with mock examsTake timed practice tests and review every mistake.14 h
- 5Prepare for exam dayBook the exam and check the ID and delivery rules.2 h
Learn the core concepts
The live courses are the required route. These are two common starting points.
Best full catalogNN/g live online coursesBest for researchersUsability TestingBest for beginnersUX Basic TrainingNotes are your exam reference You can use the course slides and your own notes in the exam, so take notes you can search quickly.
Practice with mock exams
NN/g publishes example exam questions. Your course notes and slides are the rest of your preparation.
See all 1 UXC practice tests →Are you ready?
- You can find any course concept in your notes or slides within a minute
- You can apply the course methods to a new scenario, not just define them
Prepare for exam day
There is no single exam day. Each course has its own online exam.
- Attend the whole live course, then open its exam from your NN/g account
- Take it within 35 days of the course; a one-time paid extension is available
- Each attempt is 1 hour for 30 questions and can be saved and resumed; you need 80%
- You have 3 attempts per exam
- After your 5th passed exam, your digital certificate lists your courses and any specialty
Advice from exam takers
Keep your course materials
Several holders still use their course slides years later, and notes double as your exam reference.
Expect a refresher more than new skills
Experienced practitioners describe the value as reinforcing what they knew and building confidence, so pick courses outside your strongest area.