Certified Professional for Usability and User Experience – Usability Testing and Evaluation (CPUX-UT)

Course description

Created in association with the International Usability and UX Qualification Board, this professional 2.5 day course and UX certification programme covers usability evaluation methods and theories – in particular, usability testing. It is independently assessed/certified by Certible.

Bunnyfoot were the pioneers and are now one of the leading providers of the Certified Practitioner of User Experience Course (CPUX) in the United Kingdom.

Please note: To take the CPUX-UT course, you must have passed the CPUX-F foundation exam.

CPUX (Certified Professional for Usability and User Experience) is an international standard for qualification of individuals who are professionally involved in developing or ensuring the usability or user experience of products.

CPUX-UT (CPUX-Usability Testing) is an advanced module which focuses on the preparation, moderation, and analysis of usability tests and builds on the foundational CPUX-F course. 50% of the course will be spent on practical exercises like writing test tasks, moderation, and communicating usability test results.

You can find more information about CPUX at www.cpux.org

“The CPUX-Usability Testing course exceeded my expectations. Its comprehensive content, hands-on approach and experienced instructor empowered me with advanced usability testing skills and confidence in discussing UX matters with senior stakeholders. Highly recommended for those looking to elevate their usability and user experience expertise.“

Talita Meier
UI/UX Designer, Modis GmbH

Is it for you?

This course is for anyone holding the CPUX-F foundation certification. It is the perfect addition to your UX knowledge if you are involved or interested in usability testing, whether you are a product manager, software developer or designer.

Taking this course will:

Provide you with thorough knowledge of the theory and practicalities of usability testing to be able to confidently carry out this essential methodology in your research
Help you acquire knowledge and skills that follow the established conventions
Be a recognised proof of your knowledge of usability testing

This certification is one of the advanced qualifications of the CPUX curriculum.

What you will learn

The course is based on content from the International Usability and User Experience Qualification Board (UXQB) and delivered remotely.

The course provides a deep dive into several aspects of usability testing:

Planning
- Test plans
- Rest scripts
- Pilot studies
- Recruitment
Execution
- Preparation
- Briefing
- Pre-session interviews
- Moderation
- Test tasks
- De-briefing
Communicating your results
- Analysis of results
- Rest reporting
- KJ-method
- Video summaries
Quantitative usability tests (measuring usability correctly)
Variants of usability testing
- Discount
- Remote
- Unattended
- RITE
- Retrospective recall
- Eye-tracking
- A/B
Ethical rules for usability tests
“Selling” usability tests and usability test results to your colleagues
Other usability evaluation methods
- Inspections
- Surveys

Certification test

The course and certification consists of:

a 2.5 day training course provided by Bunnyfoot
(optional) a theoretical exam which lasts for 90 minutes and is independently assessed by Certible – provides theory only certification
(optional) a theory + practical which includes planning and implementation of a usability test which is assessed by Certible – provides theory and practical certification

For the theoretical test, you must answer a number of questions about usability evaluation within 90 minutes. The CPUX-UT course runs Tuesday – Thursday (finishing at 3pm) and the theoretical examination is scheduled Friday at 09:30am.

For the practical part, you must plan, conduct and report a usability test with at least 3 usability test participants of a website. The timing for this is arranged at your convenience with Certible.

In order to gain the CPUX-UT certification, you must score at least 70% in either the theory or theory and practical (if taken) tests.

You can find an example of a complete certification test here: www.uxqb.org/en

Timings

Day 1 – Tuesday, 09:00 hrs – 17:00hrs
Day 2 – Wednesday, 09:00 hrs – 17:00hrs
Day 3 – Thursday, 09:00 hrs – 15:00 hrs

Theoretical examination, Friday at 09:30 hrs.

What are the UXQB and CPUX?

The International Usability and User Experience Qualification Board (UXQB) is a consortium of internationally recognised experts in usability and user experience. UXQB’s objective is to develop, maintain and manage the certification program (CPUX: Certified Professional for Usability and User Experience).

CPUX is an international standard for qualification of people working professionally within UX. So far professional UX-organizations in six European countries have joined UXQB: Germany, Switzerland, Austria, England, Holland and Denmark.

CPUX-F, Certified Professional for Usability and User Experience – Foundation Level, is the basic UX certification and foundation for more advanced certifications in usability testing (CPUX-UT), user requirements engineering (CPUX-UR); interaction specification, information architecture and prototyping (CPUX-IIP), and usability engineering (CPUX-UE).

Read more about UX certification www.uxqb.org/en where you can also find curricula and examples of the tasks that you have to solve if you want to be certified. The course includes many additional, unpublished examples of test tasks.