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Creating a digital brand

In today's busy and connected world, branding yourself and connecting with other professionals has never been more important. One of the popular platforms for doing this is LinkedIn. These learning activities will help you create a great LinkedIn profile, or improve your current profile, so you can network, join LinkedIn groups, stay up to date with your newsfeed, find jobs, and more.

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Designer

Design thinking is a powerful approach to innovation and brand differentiation, focused on creating experiences that delight customers. Complete these activities to understand and apply knowledge of design thinking principles to develop solutions that deliver exceptional user experiences. Start by reviewing the toolkit and taking the Enterprise Design Thinking Practitioner course to earn the badge

Job Roles Design & UX Certificate
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User Experience (UX) Design

The main goal of user experience (UX) is creating and improving people's experiences in their everyday life and work. UX efforts often focus on improving digital products and services. The need for UX design is ever-growing across industries in today’s world due to the prevalence of mobile devices and web applications, and the growth of the e-commerce market. Explore this channel to build your knowledge about UX design concepts.

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Design Thinking

Design thinking is a powerful approach to innovation and brand differentiation, focused on creating experiences that delight customers. Complete these activities to understand and apply knowledge of design thinking principles to develop solutions that deliver exceptional user experiences.

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Digital Literacy

The ability to interpret, create, and strategically use digital information, and to communicate and share it, are highly valued skills in today’s work environments. Be information savvy when creating and consuming content, and apply a critical lens to digital content. These learning activities will help you develop skills and strategies to create and consume digital information, maintain information and data security online, and use social media platforms in a professional manner.

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Diversity and Inclusion

Diversity and inclusion (D&I) are interconnected, but different concepts. Diversity refers to differences such as gender, race, age, ethnicity, sexual orientation, differing abilities, and the many more differences in people. Inclusion refers to creating a work environment where such differences and similarities are respected and welcomed, and people are comfortable to be their whole selves. A diverse and inclusive workplace makes everyone feel equally involved and supported. Diversity should be sought after, celebrated, and nurtured in a workplace through acts of inclusion.

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