The UX course was amazing and was the best course I’ve ever done. Our instructor was extremely knowledgeable and approachable. Academy Xi’s diverse environment allowed us to flourish while working with real-life clients.
UX UI Design: Transform (part-time)
Online
24 weeks, part-time
14 Jun 2021 - 26 Nov 2021
Real client projects & job guarantee
Course overview
Land a job in UX UI Design – guaranteed* and transform your future with this innovative and career-focussed course.
Australian recruiters report that employment demand for Designers with both UX and UI Design skills far outweighs the supply. This comprehensive online course will equip you with the full spectrum of theoretical and practical skills required in a well-rounded UX UI Designer.
Job Guarantee*:
- Enter the course a beginner and land a job after graduation – guaranteed*
- Master the full spectrum of theoretical and practical skills
- 24 weeks of personalised employment support and career guidance
- Expand your UX UI Design network and be part of an active community
A truly comprehensive and supported online course:
- Combined UX and UI Design for increased employability
- Hundreds of hours of content and activities along 24 weeks
- Weekly live video sessions with your mentor and classmates
- Unlimited 1:1 sessions with your mentor for tailored support
- Learn on our state of the art learning platform
Get the practical experience employers are looking for:
- Forget case studies: work on two real, live client projects
- Manage stakeholders and deadlines – just like you would in a real job
- Build your professional portfolio
- Receive trusted, industry-recognised credentials
A highly collaborative and interactive learning environment:
- Replicate the collaborative approach of a real UX UI Design job
- Cohort-based to connect with classmates, grow together and make lifelong friends
- Delve into specific topics and ask questions to your mentor in live video sessions
*T&Cs apply
Course timeframe
PHASE 1: LEARN AND PRACTICE (WEEK 1 to 12)
Go through learning materials, complete practical activities and interact with peers and mentor
PHASE 2: REAL CLIENT PROJECTS (WEEKS 13 to 24)
corporate
Work in groups to solve a business challenge and build artefacts for your portfolio
social impact
Work in groups to solve a Not-For-Profit challenge and build artefacts for your portfolio
PHASE 3: CAREER SUPPORT (FROM WEEK 25)
Build your job search strategy, create a powerful CV and practice for interviews
What you'll learn
- An overview of UX, UI and Interaction Design
- The Human-Centred Design context
- The Double Diamond framework for innovation
- Design thinking
- Designing for the experience economy – UX and UI in relation to Service/Strategic Design, Customer Experience (CX), Business Design and Venture Design
- Research problem statements
- An overview of research techniques
- Considering the business and the customer
- Interviews
- Surveys
- Heuristic evaluation
- Contextual inquiry
- Fly on the wall
- Competitor analysis
- Data analysis
- Working with insights
- Affinity mapping
- Empathy mapping
- Personas
- Archetype profiles
- Customer journeys
- Identifying opportunities
- Digitising outputs
- An overview of design principles
- UX Design principles
- Defining a project’s design principles
- Defining the design challenge
- “How might we” statements
- The purpose of ideation
- Brainstorming and ideation techniques
- Democratic design
- Decision making methods
- Minimum Viable Product in a UX context
- Card sorting
- Information architecture
- User flows
- Interaction design
- Intuitive UI
- Visual hierarchy
- Composition
- Reading patterns
- Grids
- Alignment
- Sketching the UI
- Creating wireframes
- Typography
- Colour
- Iconography
- Web conventions
- Content
- UI interactions
- Inclusive design
- Responsive design
- Good vs. bad UI Design
- Prototyping
- Usability testing
- Handing over to developers
- UX projects
- UX in wider design projects
- UX project methods: Waterfall, Agile, Lean
- Client briefs
- Scoping projects
- Mood boards
- Brand guidelines
- Style guides
- Research walls
- UX presentations
- UX storytelling
- Presentation skills
Work in groups to solve UX UI Design challenges for two real, live clients, applying your new-found skills and building your portfolio. Your first project will be a corporate, commercially-focussed scenario. The second will be for a Not-For-Profit organisation. Splitting the projects between commercial and social impact offers you the opportunity of working in vastly different environments, towards very different goals.
- Consult with clients to understand their goals and requirements
- Apply UX UI Design principles and practices to real-life projects, producing professional portfolio work
- Present UX UI Design solutions and processes to clients
Once the client projects are completed, it’s all about landing you that dream UX UI role! At this point of your learning journey, you’ll have the skills and practical experience – all that’s left is to craft your career narrative.
With the Graduate Outcomes Program, you’ll receive comprehensive career guidance and support. You’ll undertake activities including but not limited to the following:
- Finesse: Add polish to your Portfolio, CV and LinkedIn creating a coherent career narrative
- Practice: Hone your soft skills, such as interview and presentation techniques.
- Search: Build your network within the industry and apply for your dream roles.
Who this course is for
There are no prerequisites required for this course. This course is specifically designed for anyone aspiring to land a coveted role in UX UI Design. It is ideal for:
- Professionals who are looking to switch career paths with new in-demand UX UI Design skills
- Working professionals who bring design and digital related career experience with them
- Students who want to learn UX UI online, and acquire a job quickly without going to uni/college
- Anyone with transferable soft skills from previous professional experience: creative thinking, curiosity, problem solving, teamwork, an eye for detail, etc
Career outcomes
After graduating from our UX UI Design Transform course, you can apply for jobs such as:
- UX UI Designer
- UX Designer
- UI Designer
- And similar Human-Centred Design roles
Earn a digital credential
We partner with Acclaim by Credly to deliver digital credentials for our graduates. Digital credentials are a graphical representation of your skills, combined with a description of the knowledge and activities it took to earn them.
Digital badges can be used in email signatures or digital resumes, and on social media sites such as LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter.
For more info, click here.
Our students work with the best
Our students' success stories
Academy Xi has a 4.2 score out of 5, rated by 2470 students.
“the best course I’ve ever done”
Annemarie Sia
“I felt connected to Academy Xi’s vision”
Benjamin Chen
I felt connected to Academy Xi’s vision and liked the small class approach. The instructor always thought for a student’s perspective and needs. If you like problem-solving and making a difference, UX is a good direction to take.
Suggested courses
transform courses
elevate courses
foundations courses
Meet your instructors
Other disciplines you might be interested in
