International Standards and Certifications for User Experience and Usability
From professional UX qualifications to Software Usability with GenAI and human factors in safety-critical systems. Developed with experts from industry and academia.
A common standard for a diverse field.
Usability and User Experience are taught and practiced across many disciplines and professional backgrounds. UXQCC provides a common foundation through defined syllabi, learning objectives and certification requirements.
A common language. Defined competence. Verifiable knowledge.
Built on expertise. Designed for trust.
UXQCC certification schemes are developed and continuously reviewed by an international Board of experts from industry and academia. They combine established standards, scientific foundations and professional practice.
They draw on established international standards for usability and human-centred design, including principles from the ISO 9241 series.
Russ Wilson
Head of Product Experience, Splunk @ Cisco
“By certifying UX practitioners, UXQCC provides recruiters and companies with additional assurance that individuals meet a defined standard of knowledge and expertise. This certification has the potential to improve the identification and selection of qualified candidates, consultants, and partners worldwide.”
Clear responsibilities create credible certification
UXQCC
Develops and maintains certification schemes, syllabi, learning objectives and quality requirements.
International Board
Experts from industry and academia keep certification content relevant and up to date.
Accredited Training Providers
Deliver professional preparation based on the respective UXQCC syllabus.
GASQ
Administers the official certification examinations independently from training.
Already have the knowledge?
No course required. If you already meet the requirements, you can take the certification exam directly.
Official UXQCC certification exams are administered by GASQ.
Choose your certification path
UXQCC offers certifications for different professional fields and levels of experience — from User Experience and Usability to Software Usability with GenAI and Safety-Critical Systems.
Choose the certification that matches your professional role and goals. Depending on the certification, you can prepare independently or with an accredited training provider.
Software Usability with GenAI
UXQCC GenAI Foundation Level
The UXQCC GenAI Foundation Level is designed for people who develop, test, specify or manage software — especially in teams without dedicated UX support.
It shows how GenAI can support Software Usability, User Experience and Accessibility throughout the development process: from Discovery and Requirements to UI design, implementation, testing and continuous improvement.
The focus is not on becoming a UX specialist, but on gaining the knowledge needed to use AI effectively, recognize usability problems and critically evaluate AI-generated results.
User Experience & Usability
UXQCC CPUE Foundation Level · Advanced Level · UX Accreditation
The UXQCC User Experience & Usability certifications provide a structured professional pathway for people working with Usability, User Experience and Human-Centred Design.
The Foundation Level establishes a common body of knowledge and terminology. The Advanced Level focuses on applying this knowledge in professional UX and usability projects. UX Accreditation complements the certification path with a peer-review based recognition of professional experience.
The certifications are designed for UX practitioners as well as professionals from related disciplines who want to demonstrate standardized and verifiable competence in Usability and User Experience.
Safety-Critical Systems
Industrial Safety Skills · Document Certification
The UXQCC Safety-Critical Systems certifications apply Usability Engineering and Human Factors to environments where unclear information, misunderstood instructions or human error can have serious consequences.
Industrial Safety Skills provides professionals with the knowledge needed to evaluate and improve safety-related information and documentation from a human-centred perspective. Document Certification assesses safety-critical documents against defined usability and human factors criteria.
The focus is on making instructions, procedures and safety information easier to understand and act upon, helping organizations reduce avoidable errors in safety-critical environments.
Demonstrate verified professional competence
UXQCC certifications provide verifiable evidence of knowledge and skills based on defined syllabi and learning objectives. Successful candidates receive an official certificate that can be used in professional profiles, applications and client communications.
COMMON PROFESSIONAL LANGUAGE
A shared body of knowledge and clearly defined terminology support effective collaboration across disciplines, organizations and countries.
VERIFIABLE COMPETENCE
Certification provides employers, clients and project partners with evidence that defined professional knowledge and skills have been independently assessed.
What certified professionals say about UXQCC
Professionals share how UXQCC certification has supported their work and professional development.
The certification course was a crash course for people who have dipped into UX and want to advance further, and for professionals who want a quick recap of the UX universe’s components. Verena Seibert-Giller presented the content with insights from real-life examples from her career and enriched the theory with activities to give us hands-on experience. I’m looking forward to the next step: the UXQCC Usability Professional Advanced Level.
The UXQCC certificate is the perfect combination of practical knowledge and experience of years of working in digital communication projects. It gave me the basis for decision making and tools for further growth in the UX/UI area.
Up to now, I have spent several years working as a UX designer. The course was therefore an excellent opportunity to refresh the fundamentals and challenge the familiarity that can develop when working with the same UX tools and workflows for a long time. It was also great to meet other UX designers as part of the UXQCC certification.
About UXQCC – User Experience Quality Certification Center
International expertise from industry and academia, developing professional standards for Usability and User Experience.
CERTIFICATION STANDARDS
UXQCC develops and maintains certification schemes, syllabi, learning objectives and quality requirements for Usability, User Experience and their application in professional practice.
INTERNATIONAL EXPERTISE FROM INDUSTRY AND ACADEMIA
An international Board of experts from industry and academia continuously reviews and develops the certification content to keep it relevant, current and professionally applicable.
ACCREDITED TRAINING PROVIDERS
Accredited training providers offer professional preparation based on the respective UXQCC syllabus. Provider accreditation helps ensure consistent training quality across different countries and formats.
OFFICIAL EXAMS ADMINISTERED BY GASQ
Candidates may prepare through accredited training or, where applicable, independently. Official UXQCC certification examinations are administered by GASQ, independently from training.
DEFINED SYLLABI AND
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
INTERNATIONAL EXPERTISE FROM
INDUSTRY AND ACADEMIA
ACCREDITED
TRAINING PROVIDERS
OFFICIAL EXAMS
ADMINISTERED BY GASQ
AI has made creation faster.
Judgment has become the bottleneck.
GenAI can generate requirements, interfaces, code and tests in minutes. Software teams still need to know whether the result actually works for users.
At the same time, AI is fundamentally changing the work of UX professionals. Research, analysis, prototyping, evaluation and documentation can increasingly be supported or accelerated by AI — making the ability to assess quality, context and evidence even more important.
UXQCC GenAI brings these capabilities together for both software professionals and UX practitioners.
Questions about UXQCC certifications?
Questions about certification schemes, syllabi, accreditation or accredited training providers? Contact UXQCC — we will be happy to help.
Contact UXQCC:
https://uxqcc.com/contact
For exam registration, exam codes and examination-related questions, please contact GASQ, the official UXQCC examination provider.
Contact GASQ:
https://www.gasq.org/en/certification/uxqcc.html