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Course Skills and Professional Competencies

Two different things with two different kinds of evidence behind them — and why finishing a Course never verifies a Competency.

MasarUX describes your skills at two levels. They look similar on a profile, so it is worth being precise about the difference: they are not two views of one thing.

Course SkillsProfessional Competencies
GranularityMany, specific, per CourseEight fixed Domains across the Career Path
Evidence behind itThe Course covered itWork you produced, and for the strongest state, a reviewer who read it
Can Course completion alone establish it?YesNo

The eight Professional Competency Domains

  • Research & Discovery
  • Structure & Flow
  • Interaction Design
  • Visual & Systems Design
  • High-Fidelity & Prototyping
  • Accessibility & Inclusive Design
  • Testing & Validation
  • Professional Practice

The four states a Domain can be in

StateWhat produced it
LockedNo evidence yet.
LearningYou have started or finished a Course that teaches this Domain.
PracticedYou passed a Practice Task mapped to this Domain.
VerifiedA reviewer read your Formal Project and awarded a qualifying score on this Domain.

Each Career Path declares which Domains its own credential requires, and how strong the evidence must be. On the UX/UI Professional path, all eight must reach Verified. Other paths declare their own thresholds, and a Domain a path does not declare is not required for that path at all.

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