By completing five Interaction Design courses within NN/g’s certification program, you earn a UX Certification with a specialty in Interaction Design. This credential proves your understanding of best-in-class practices—spanning web, mobile, complex apps, and more—grounded in the research and standards defined by industry leaders Nielsen Norman Group.

NN/g isn’t just another training provider. They’re a globally-respected UX authority—more than 13,000 professionals are now UX Certified under their programs. Their training curriculum is shaped by over 25 years of evidence-based UX research and consulting across leading organizations worldwide.

“Earning the Interaction Design Specialty certification from Nielsen Norman Group signifies mastery in research-backed experience design—validated by over 13,000 certified pros and 500+ organizations. NN/g’s rigorous practices like F-pattern reading, minimal but effective usability tests, and navigation design grounded in user models deliver measurably better outcomes—like 80% success versus just 9% with assumption-led design.”

Key Business-Oriented Stats & Insights

• Market-Wide UX Adoption
  With over 13,000 certified professionals and training spanning 500+ companies, NN/g influences design standards across industries.

• Research-Driven Credibility
  NN/g’s methodologies—like recommending as few as five users per usability test—enable efficient, actionable user testing without excessive cost or scope. The F-shaped reading pattern and more are among their widely cited research contributions.

• UX Decisions with Real ROI
  In navigation testing, NN/g discovered that design based on user mental models had an 80% success rate, versus only 9% for designs based on internal assumptions—demonstrating the clear value of research-led design.

Why This Matters for Organizations & Clients

• Trusted Expertise at Scale
  Certification isn’t just earned—it’s benchmarked against standards trusted by the UX field’s originators and taught to thousands across organizations, big and small.

• Fast, Evidence-Based Design Wins
  NN/g’s test methodologies deliver high-impact insights using small samples, making UX improvements fast, affordable, and empirically grounded.

• Research That Moves Metrics
  Real-world evidence shows that aligning design with user mental models doesn’t just improve usability—it drastically increases success rates.