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User Experience Design Course (Intensive) (VIC ONLY)

Study Method
In-class
Locations
Melbourne (Melbourne CBD)
Institution
Academy Xi
Start Date
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Course overview

User Experience (UX) Design is an emerging discipline that applies concepts from Human-Centered Design to identify and solve usability problems. UX Design understands a user’s emotions and empathic connection to a digital product and is integral to any successful product or experience.

In this intensive 5-day immersive course, you’ll learn to create amazing digital user experiences, products, and services that drive impact, effectiveness, and profitability.

While delving into the core concepts, techniques and tools of UX, design research, customer journey mapping and usability testing, you’ll also get tangible, practical experience by working on various activities and building your own portfolio with a UX project of your choosing.

 

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Job outcomes

  • UX, Experience or Interaction Designer
  • CX Designer
  • User Researcher
  • Information Architect
  • Product Designer
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What you'll learn

This intensive one-week course will equip you with UX Design techniques to add to your toolkit and ensure you’re comfortable with in-demand skills:

  • Experience working on a real UX project
  • Gain a toolkit of UX skills and techniques
  • Bring valuable tools into your workplace
  • Understand the end-to-end UX Design process
  • Create an accelerated set of artifacts; personas, customer journeys, user flows and information architecture
  • Communicate UX Design concepts to various stakeholders

Study method

  • In-class
    In class delivery - predominately face to face course content conducted at a specific location
  • Blended
    Blended delivery - both online course content and partial face to face requirements
  • Online
    Online delivery - online course content with the exception of assessments and work placement

Locations

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  • Victoria
    • Melbourne
      • Melbourne CBD

Duration study load

  • 5 days full-time

Course features

Learn from industry UX experts
Enjoy the opportunity to learn from leading practitioners and leverage our instructor’s exclusive expertise.

Apply theory to a real-life challenge
Gain valuable skills and apply what you learn in the classroom to a real-life challenge.

Learn amongst like-minded professionals
With capped class sizes, enjoy the unique perspectives and professional experiences of your classmates.

Connect with the industry
Expand your connections in a community of industry influencers and thought leaders.

Testimonials

  • Troi Ilsley
    User Experience Design Course
    "I recommend the UX Transform course to anyone who wants to learn or pursue a career in User Experience Design. I had no prior experience in the industry and Academy Xi equipped me with the UX skills, knowledge and confidence to become a UX Designer."

Who's it for?

  • Anyone interested in learning and applying UX Design skills in their current role, future career or to a business – no prerequisites are required for this course
  • Anyone looking to accelerate their learning in a short, concentrated time frame
  • Design professionals looking to transition into UX roles over time
  • Design professionals looking to validate and formalise their existing knowledge and skillsets
  • Students from a variety of professional backgrounds
  • No prior experience needed

Subjects

Core Modules
Introduction & Discovery

Start your UX Design career with the right building blocks:

  • Understand the UX Design process
  • Engage in an accelerated Design Thinking workshop
  • Learn how to plan, run and facilitate a team or stakeholder workshop
  • Discover common industry research tools and techniques
  • Form an insight-driven hypothesis to understand ‘what problem am I solving?’
Research, concept & Design

From ideation to prototype, a solid understanding of the user is vital in crafting delightful, human-centric experiences.  You’ll learn how to:

  • Piece together insights and findings to create a persona
  • Learn to quickly develop feature ideas and form a rudimentary project plan
  • Discover best practices for navigation, search, imagery, and content
  • Explore new trends in UX Design
  • Trial an Agile method of working
  • Learn and apply widely used testing techniques
  • Facilitate user testing sessions and learn how to observe, take notes and translate learnings into a prototype
Projects and Pitching

Apply your learning to a personal UX Design project that you’ll pitch to the class.

  • Add your work to your portfolio
  • Wrap up your training with a chance to pitch your personal project to peers
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Payment options

  • 12-month interest-free loans with Zip
  • 48-month loans from Study Loans
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About Academy Xi

Our mission is to transform the world through education by empowering a community of changemakers with the knowledge and skills to create their own positive waves of change.

To answer the insatiable demand for design and technology capabilities across all industries, we run practical, industry-relevant courses, in Human-Centred Design (UX, UI, Graphic Design and Service Design), Business and Marketing (Agile, Digital Growth Marketing, Product Management and Data Analytics), and New and Emerging Tech (Mixed Reality Design).

Designed and taught by passionate industry experts, our courses empower people and teams with the skills and confidence to stay ahead of the industry curve, build a future-ready career and transform their lives.