IICTI Certified UI & UX Designer

Holders demonstrate that they can apply and evaluate uX research strategy, mixed methods and research operations, information architecture, taxonomy and findability, interaction design, behaviour modelling and prototyping and visual design systems, design tokens and component architecture, plus 6 further areas, in realistic professional scenarios, as defined in the AQSCERT scheme for UI & UX Designer.

Who it is for: Professionals working, or preparing to work, in software development roles.

1. 01UX research strategy, mixed methods and research operations10% of the exam

   • Design and lead mixed-methods research programmes whose evidence quality matches the risk of the product decisions they inform.
   • Scope: Decision-driven research planning, generative vs evaluative methods, JTBD and contextual inquiry, sampling and saturation, survey and MaxDiff design, reflexive thematic analysis, triangulation, participant consent under GDPR, AI-assisted and synthetic research limits, ResearchOps repositories and democratisation guardrails.
2. 02Information architecture, taxonomy and findability10% of the exam

   • Architect scalable, evidence-based information structures and navigation systems that keep content findable as products and catalogues grow.
   • Scope: Open, closed and hybrid card sorting, tree testing and first-click analysis, faceted classification and polyhierarchy, controlled vocabularies and synonym rings, object-oriented UX and content modelling, navigation and wayfinding patterns, search UX and search analytics, taxonomy governance.
3. 03Interaction design, behaviour modelling and prototyping10% of the exam

   • Design and validate complex interaction behaviour, including edge, error, latency and offline states, using prototypes of the appropriate fidelity.
   • Scope: Fitts, Hick-Hyman and steering laws, response-time thresholds and optimistic UI, state machines and statecharts, form and validation behaviour, error prevention and undo, motion and microinteractions, gesture and multi-device input, prototype fidelity strategy and code-based prototyping.
4. 04Visual design systems, design tokens and component architecture10% of the exam

   • Architect and govern a multi-platform design system whose tokens, components and visual language scale across brands, themes and teams.
   • Scope: Primitive, semantic and component token tiers, the W3C DTCG token format and multi-brand theming, component API and variant design, governance and contribution models, versioning and deprecation, typography and fluid type scales, perceptual colour spaces, grids, data visualisation and visual regression.
5. 05Accessibility engineering: WCAG 2.2, EN 301 549 and the EAA10% of the exam

   • Evaluate designs and implementations against WCAG 2.2 and EU accessibility law, and lead remediation and shift-left accessibility practice.
   • Scope: WCAG 2.2 success criteria including the 2.2 additions, WAI-ARIA patterns and accessible name computation, focus management, assistive-technology testing matrices, EN 301 549, the European Accessibility Act (Directive 2019/882) and Web Accessibility Directive, accessibility conformance reports and inclusive design.
6. 06Usability evaluation, experimentation and UX metrics10% of the exam

   • Design rigorous usability studies and experiments, and evaluate UX metrics with appropriate statistical and practical judgement.
   • Scope: Moderated and unmoderated testing, heuristic evaluation and cognitive walkthrough, severity rating, SUS, UMUX-Lite, SEQ and SUPR-Q, confidence intervals for small samples, A/B test design including power, peeking and sample ratio mismatch, HEART and Goals-Signals-Metrics, and behavioural analytics.
7. 07Content design, UX writing and localisation10% of the exam

   • Design content systems and microcopy that are clear, testable and ready for localisation across markets and scripts.
   • Scope: Plain language (ISO 24495-1), voice and tone systems, error and microcopy patterns, labels, links and headings, structured content, content testing methods, internationalisation including ICU MessageFormat and CLDR plural rules, text expansion, pseudolocalisation, RTL mirroring and inclusive language.
8. 08Design for AI-powered, conversational and multimodal interfaces10% of the exam

   • Design AI-powered and multimodal experiences that keep users informed, in control and appropriately reliant on system outputs.
   • Scope: Calibrated trust and over-reliance, uncertainty and provenance display, grounding and citations, human-in-the-loop control of agentic actions, streaming and latency patterns, conversational and voice repair, multimodal input, evaluating non-deterministic features, EU AI Act transparency duties and content credentials.
9. 09Ethical design, deceptive patterns and regulatory compliance10% of the exam

   • Evaluate product designs for manipulation, privacy and fairness risks, and lead remediation that meets EU regulatory expectations.
   • Scope: Deceptive design taxonomies, DSA Article 25, GDPR consent and privacy by design, EDPB guidance on cookie banners and deceptive patterns, consumer law including drip pricing and the online withdrawal function, design for minors, consequence scanning, value-sensitive design and sustainable digital design.
10. 10Design leadership, DesignOps and product-business alignment10% of the exam

    • Lead and scale a design practice that aligns design decisions with product strategy and measurable business outcomes.
    • Scope: Team topologies and operating models, DesignOps, critique and design review practice, career frameworks and hiring, outcome-based roadmaps and OKRs, dual-track discovery, prioritisation frameworks, stakeholder management, design QA and UX debt, measuring design impact and governing AI tooling in design teams.

Question types

Single choice 100%

Delivery

Online (remote proctored), Test centre, On-site (corporate)

Retakes

Up to three attempts within any 12-month period. A 14-day waiting period applies after a first unsuccessful attempt and 30 days after a second. Each retake requires a new booking and fee. Retakes draw a different randomised form from the question bank.

Provisional cut score — psychometric validation is required before live delivery. Blueprint v1.0.

1. 1

   Register

   Create a free account and start the programme.

2. 2

   Practice

   Online practice test (coming soon).

3. 3

   Training

   Optional

   Online course or classroom — or skip it.

4. 4

   Certification

   Independent exam and certification decision.

Training is optional and does not by itself confer certification. Find a training partner