Friday 21 February 2025 9:00am - 4:30pm
Sydney: Hub Hyde Park, Level 3, 223 Liverpool Street, Darlinghurst
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Get hands-on experience of a human-centred approach to UX design in this intensive one-day course. This in person, expert guided course gives you a solid grounding in the principles and theories behind a modern, human-centred design process and practical experience taking a UX project from initial research, to design, to usability testing.
This packed in person course takes you through the full life cycle of a human-centred approach to user experience design. It is suitable for both absolute beginners and experienced designers looking to upskill with human-centred or user experience design techniques. You learn the principles and methods that shape modern user experience design, then put them into practice, taking a project through a full design life cycle. This course is process focused, not tool focused, so you don’t need a computer or any experience in design software. Lunch and morning coffee is provided.
The course covers:
Friday 21 February 2025 9:00am - 4:30pm
Sydney: Hub Hyde Park, Level 3, 223 Liverpool Street, Darlinghurst
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Learn foundational theories and principles
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Design and conduct qualitative interviews to understand your users
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Analyse your interviews to identify design opportunities
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Create a design to respond to the opportunities or challenges you identified
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Design and run a usability test to validate your proposed design
On completion of the course all participants get:
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A certificate of completion that can be shared on CVs and social media
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An hour of follow up post course contact time
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Discounts on subsequent courses in the same year
All are welcome and no prior knowledge is required to do this course. However, the course is primarily aimed at:
Web, interaction, and UX designers who want to build on their UX skills, put into practice approaches they have read about, adopt a user-centred design approach, or better their understanding of the principles behind common UX design methods.
Product people who want to sharpen their design skills, better support their product and service designers, or want a better understanding of how a user experience design approach can get them better outcomes on their products and projects.
Traditional designers who want to transition into digital design or learn how to work better with their UX colleagues.
Senior practitioners who want to gain an understanding of the principles of user experience design and experience how those principles are practised on the ground.
Developers who want to build on their UX skills or learn how to work better with their UX colleagues.
People from other professional backgrounds who want to explore transitioning into human-centred or user experience design.
Matt has over 20 years experience as a user experience designer in England, New Zealand, and Australia. He is trained as a design coach through the Better By Design Programme and has been running successful human centred and user experience design courses for over 10 years. He started DO UX to continue the mission of the design initiative ‘UX Gym’ which he co-founded with Lulu Pachuau. That mission is to lift the design capabilities of Australia and New Zealand by making expert quality human-centred design training as accessible possible.
Contact Matt:
matt@doux.au
Learn more about Matt here:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-gould-aba563b/
“You knocked it out of the park yesterday. Verbal feedback was through the roof. I always appreciate that you are a practitioner, which means you bring not only the methodology but also the experience to adapt to the context, which makes the training relevant/ relatable for the participants. Thank you! Always impressive to see you in action.”
Audrey Cheng – Snapcomms
“OMG, we’ve just done a sprint and used a bunch of the stuff you taught us – you would be proud.”
Anna Livesey – AMP
“Your course was very valuable and useful … after the course, I joined the Innes48 Business Startup Competition, and our team won 1st prize.”
Jerry Lee – Student
“I just wanted to say thanks for creating and providing such a great UX Design course. Just today, I set up a testing session as per the course, and we immediately gained some insights into my designs.”
Edgar Vadauskas – Opus
“Absolutely loved yesterday and have had great feedback from those I spoke to yesterday.”
Katy Medlock – Jucy
For all enquiries contact matt@doux.au
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