
User Experience Design has become increasingly recognised by employers and businesses as an important, strategic role in the delivery of successful digital products.
In our one-week focused course, UXD:Accelerate, your learning experience will be intensive and focused. Take a deep dive into User Experience Design and learn the important skills and techniques required to create meaningful digital experiences.
Guided by highly experienced and well regarded industry experts, you’ll bring a problem you want to solve and we’ll guide you through the process to help you breathe life into it.
Our approach is intense and applied; each day you will walk away with a new technique to practice and implement. Take your career up a notch and start implementing User Experience Design in your workplace.
There are no pre-requisites for this accelerated version of our part time or full time UX courses. This program is for anyone interested in breaking into the ever-growing field of User Experience Design and is popular with professionals working in design, tech and adjacent disciplines:
In this accelerated Design Thinking workshop, you’ll experience how to plan, run and facilitate a team or stakeholder workshop. This is high energy and high participation; use this technique with your clients to see how your vision grows infinitely better.
We will guide you with some common and industry expected research tools and techniques used to understand who you’re designing for and why you’re designing for them.
With hypotheses, insights and facts, you’re going to confidently answer the question “what problem am I solving?”
Lear rapid exercises in piecing together your insights and findings to create the centrepiece of who you’re designing for: your Personas. Taking these further, we’ll teach you how to generate feature ideas really quickly. You’ll then turn these features, no matter how outlandish, into a rudimentary project plan.
Know yourself and know your audience. These are fundamental to creating successful products that solve problems in a meaningful way. We guide you through a visioning and success process and have you apply that to making your users successful in the process.
We look at what’s happening in the rapidly changing world of digital. From desktop to mobile, you will learn the fundamental best practices for navigation, search, imagery, content as well get some insights as to what’s on trend.
Enter design springs. Waterfall delivery is over. Although still widely used, this mode of delivery is fast being replaced with design sprints in modern product development.
Enter Agile (or Design Sprints).
Understanding the bigger picture and the project objectives, our goal is to get your correct product out to the market as quickly as possible. The concept of Kaizen ensures that we create excellence and dismiss the neurotic pursuit of perfection, creating a product that is right for right now.
Using widely used testing techniques, you will learn how to plan for a testing session, create scenarios and tasks, note-take and observe. You’ll then translate your learnings into a refined UX Design and prototype.
Implement what you’ve learned. “I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past.” This great quote by Clarissa Harlowe Barton sums up your responsibility as a UX Designer. Every design problem is solved better with the help of the people who’ll be using your product.
You pitch.
We wrap up your User Experience Design training and all revel in the beauty of your thinking: your final project. This is your chance to pitch your ideas for final feedback.
By the end of this one week course, you will have learned the following important skills:
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