UX UI Design: Transform

› 24 weeks› Part-time

User Experience (UX) Design is a human-centred approach to designing digital products and services, like an app or a website, ensuring the final product is both user-friendly and profitable.

UX Designers place the user at the centre of the development process and go through cycles of ideation, observation, research, testing and refinement to ensure the product is easy and intuitive to use.

User Interface (UI) Design focuses on the look, feel, and interactivity of a digital product or service. UI Designers consider the layout, grid, typography, and colour of each feature on screen.

UI Designers design all visual elements that a user will interact with, such as buttons, scrollbars, dropdown menus, icons, and more.

Market trends in Australia show that designers with an understanding of both UX and UI have stronger employment outcomes.

What are UX and UI Design?

Hello and welcome to 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.

Academy Xi is our answer to 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 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.

Academy Xi: Our story

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COMBINED UX AND UI

Most design roles require an understanding of both UX and UI. By combining disciplines, this course will set you apart in a competitive marketplace. You’ll gain the skills and techniques to design user-friendly and visually appealing digital experiences, no matter the industry you’re in.

COMPREHENSIVE CAREER SUPPORT

To ensure you’re able to land a job after this course, you’ll receive comprehensive personalised employment support. From strengthening your CV and LinkedIn profile, to creating a career narrative that emphasizes your strengths, you’ll have an edge in the market.

NETWORK OF HIRING MANAGERS

Lots of fantastic brands are looking to hire graduates just like you… And we’ve got the community to connect you with them, helping you land your dream job.

JOB GUARANTEE*

Go from beginner to hired, guaranteed. We’ve got a proven track record of success, with 90% of our active alumni receiving a job offer within 24 weeks of graduation (*T&Cs apply).

ALUMNI BENEFITS

Gain access to our alumni-exclusive events and Slack channel, with job offers, career guidance

and networking opportunities. Receive discounts on your future courses and a credit when you refer a friend.

COHORT-BASED

Progress through the course at the same pace as other students, enabling you to connect, work on activities and client projects, replicating the collaborative approach of human-centred designers in industry.

WEEKLY L IVE SESSIONS WITH Q&A

Access exclusive live content not found anywhere else, discuss client projects, unpick design challenges with your mentor and classmates as well as listen to live presentations from leading industry experts.

UNLIMITED MENTOR ON-DEMAND

Book unlimited 1:1 sessions with your mentor to receive personalised feedback and specific guidance on your skillset and job opportunities.

WORK ON REAL , L IVE CLIENT PROJECTS

Unlike other education providers who typically rely on case studies and simulated experiences, you will gain practical experience by working with real, live clients, managing stakeholders, deadlines, and providing recommendations that will significantly impact the company’s digital direction.

Why study with us

STAND OUT WITH A UNIQUE PORTFOLIO

Stand apart from other students with a personalised portfolio and your own unique pitch to the industry. Your portfolio will powerfully demonstrate your strategic, creative and commercial thinking, as well as hands-on skills, to any current or future employer.

WELL-ROUNDED SKILLS

Explore relevant related disciplines such as service design, product management, agile and digital marketing to become a well-rounded UX UI Designer.

EARN A DIGITAL CREDENTIAL AND AN INDUSTRY-RECOGNISED CERTIFICATE

Receive a digital credential and a Certificate of Completion as official recognition of your competencies, theoretical knowledge and practical skills in UX UI. As our courses are trusted by industry leaders, including organisations

and recruiters across Australia, adding these credentials to your CV and LinkedIn profile can greatly boost your employment prospects.

TAUGHT BY LEADING INDUSTRY PRACTITIONERS

Our courses are designed and taught by leading industry experts with extensive experience. Being a seasoned practitioner in UX and UI doesn’t qualify you to teach, nurture students, or lead projects effectively. So we hand-pick our mentors to guarantee their extensive experience, both in the field and in the online classroom.

HIGH-QUALITY CONTENT

Our courses are created exclusively in-house by learning designers, in partnership with practitioners, industry experts, recruiters and students, referencing local and global best practices. What you’ll learn is always current, and industry applicable, ensuring you stay ahead of the curve in a fast changing industry.

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Every time you use a digital product, your experience of it and the impression it leaves is the result of “good” or “poor” UX and UI design. Knowing that one in three consumers will walk away from a brand they love after just one bad experience, it’s clear that UX UI design has the potential to directly impact a company’s bottom line.

UX UI is central to any business’ strategy across all industries. Most design roles require an understanding of both in order to bridge the gap between a business’ goals and users’ needs. Australian hiring managers and recruiters report that employment demand for designers with both UX and UI skills far outweighs the supply.

If you want to land a job right away*, our UX UI Transform course is for you. This comprehensive 24 weeks online course will equip you with the full spectrum of theoretical and practical skills required in a well-rounded UX UI Designer. We’ve got such a well proven track record that this course is covered by our Job Guarantee*.

Whether you enter the course as a complete beginner or a working professional from another industry, by the end of this program, you’ll be able to craft human-centred digital experiences, websites and apps - skills than can seriously boost your career and salary, as UX UI Designers in Australia earn on average $110,000.

METHOD OF STUDY

Online, with weekly live video sessions.

TIME COMMITMENT

24 weeks of course (120 hours of learning content and 96 hours of live content project activities). Up to 24 weeks of additional career support.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

12 modules.

COURSE OUTCOMES

A Job Guarantee* A portfolio with two real client projects (one corporate, one social impact).

A digital credential.

An industry-recognised Certificate of Completion.

LEVEL OF STUDY

Career transformation course. No prerequisites required.

Why choose this course?

COURSE SNAPSHOT:

(*T&Cs apply).

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INTRODUCTION TO UX AND UI DESIGN

• 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

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What you’ll learn

UX RESEARCH

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• 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

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SYNTHESIS: INSIGHTS, THEMES AND MAPPING EXPERIENCES

• Working with insights

• Affinity mapping

• Empathy mapping

• Personas

• Archetype profiles

• Customer journeys

• Identifying opportunities

• Digitising outputs

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DESIGN PRINCIPLES

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• An overview of design principles

• UX principles

• Defining a project’s design principles

• Defining the design challenge

• “How might we” statements

IDEATION

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• The purpose of ideation

• Brainstorming and ideation techniques

• Democratic design

• Decision making methods

• Minimum Viable Product in a UX context

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DESIGNING THE UXW

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• Card sorting

• Information architecture

• User flows

• Interaction design

• Intuitive UI

DESIGNING THE UI

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• Visual hierarchy

• Composition

• Reading patterns

• Grids

• Alignment

• Sketching the UI

APPLYING THE UI TO WIREFRAMES

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• Creating wireframes

• Typography

• Colour

• Iconography

• Web conventions

• Content

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UI DESIGN CONSIDERATIONSW

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• UI interactions

• Inclusive design

• Responsive design

• Good vs. bad UI

FROM WIREFRAME TO PROTOTYPE

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• Prototyping

• Usability testing

• Handing over to developers

UX PROJECT MANAGEMENT

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• UX projects

• UX in wider design projects

• UX project methods: Waterfall, Agile, Lean

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WORKING WITH CLIENTS

• Client briefs

• Scoping projects

• Mood boards

• Brand guidelines

• Style guides

• Research walls

• UX presentations

• UX storytelling

• Presentation skills

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L IVE CLIENT PROJECTS

Work in groups to solve UX UI 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 or social impact organisation.

Splitting the projects between commercial and social impact offers you the opportunity of working in vastly different environments, towards very different goals.

Social impact is a big part of our DNA, represented by our Xi Act pillar, which has guided us since inception. It’s our commitment to creating a new wave of changemakers through education.

• 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 and UI solutions and processes to clients

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CAREER GUIDANCE

Receive comprehensive career guidance and support for up to 24 weeks.

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.

We’ll help you perfect your portfolio, hone your CV and LinkedIn page, prep for interviews and open doors by reaching out to our industry contacts - all aimed at landing you a job that you are passionate about.

• Create your personal brand

• Connect your past professional and personal experiences with the UX UI mindset

• Create a professional UX UI portfolio

• Develop career-focussed soft skills

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Our UX UI Transform course is specifically designed for students aspiring to land a coveted role in UX UI design.

This course is ideal for:

• Students who want to learn UX UI online, and acquire a job quickly without going to uni/college.

• Learners who are ready to transform their career and employment options.

• Working professionals who bring design and digital related career experience with them.

• Anyone with transferable soft skills from previous professional experience: creative thinking, curiosity, problem solving, teamwork, an eye for detail, etc.

This course provides professional-level skills and knowledge in UX UI Design, aligned to industry practice standards, along with comprehensive career transition support.

By the end of our UX UI Transform course, you will know how to:

• Consult with stakeholders to understand their goals and requirements

• Conduct secondary research on market, industry trends, competitors, and comparable experiences

• Conduct quantitative and qualitative user research

• Develop research-driven personas, usage scenarios and user journeys

• Ideate concepts to iterate and optimise design ideas into design solutions

• Co-create UX solutions using Human-Centred Design (HCD) principles and practices

• Execute design work consistent with design language, style guides and brand standards, analytics insight, customers’ feedback

• Design intuitive and responsive digital experiences for users

• Design user interactions for effortless navigation

• Design mockups, wireframes and prototypes

• Conduct usability testing to validate the presentation, interactivity and experience of a product

• Apply UX UI design principles and practices to real-life client projects, producing professional portfolio work

Learning outcomes Who this course is for

After graduating from our UX UI Transform course, you can apply for jobs such as:

• UX/UI Designer

• UX Designer

• UI Designer

• And similar Human-Centred Design roles

Career outcomes

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Our UX UI Transform course runs over 24-48 weeks.

All aspects of this learning experience will be undertaken online, with regular peer to peer and mentor interactions through:

• Weekly live sessions with your mentor and the whole class

• Weekly live sessions to work on live client projects

• Regular, private video conferences for personalised career support

Course timeframe

The course is split into 3 phases.

You will start your learning journey by completing 12 weeks of online study to equip you with the knowledge and skills required to start working on real client projects.

From week 13 to 24, you’ll work in groups to solve UX UI challenges for two real, live clients. To provide a range of opportunities to think strategically, practically and commercially, your first client project will be a corporate, commercially-focussed scenario. The second client project will be solving a challenge for a non-for-profit or a social impact organisation.

In week 25, you’ll start the last exciting phase of your learning journey, with comprehensive career guidance and support for up to 24 weeks.

PHASE 1: PHASE 2: PHASE 3:

LEARN AND PRACTICE

CLIENT PROJECTS

CAREER SUPPORT

WEEK 1 TO 12WEEK 13 TO 18

FROM WEEK 25WEEK 19 TO 24

Your commitment: 10hr/week (total 120 hours)

Go through learning materials, complete practical activities and interact with peers and mentor

CORPORATEYour commitment:

8hr/week (total 48 hours)

Work in group to solve a business challenge and build artefacts for

your portfolio

SOCIAL IMPACTYour commitment:

8hr/week (total 48 hours)

Work in group to solve a Non-For-Profit challenge and build

artefacts for your portfolio

Your commitment: Up to 4hr/week (total up to

96 hours)

Build your job search strategy, create a powerful CV and practice

for interviews

Portfolio assessment

Our graduates are recognised by the industry to possess the essential knowledge and skills expected of a UX UI Designer. To ensure you achieve the specified outcomes, this course is split into three phases, with criteria to move from one phase to another. It also includes an assessment which is mandatory for you to graduate from the course.

The primary method of assessment is through a portfolio. Through the two live client projects and other course activities, you’ll build various assets which will form the basis of your portfolio. The course will lead you through the process of defining, designing and developing

your UX UI approach and concepts. You’ll document your design thinking, problem solving and UX UI skills in your portfolio, presenting it to your mentor at the end of the course. Your mentor will then review it and provide structured feedback through a live or recorded video session on what you have done well and ways you can improve.

To prepare for this formal assessment, you can test your knowledge with topic quizzes and by completing practical taskwork throughout the course to ensure you are applying techniques appropriately.

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GET IN TOUCHSpeak to one of our Course Advisors to clear up any questions:

admissions@academyxi.com

1300 683 923

Live Chat

Our Tribe will support you from enrolment to graduation, helping you achieve your goals every step of the way:

• The Experience Team: Your go-to-person for any technical questions, to ensure your online experience is seamless.

• Your mentor: Through weekly live sessions, private on-demand sessions, email or Slack, your mentor will guide you throughout the course and share their wealth of experience.

• Your classmates: To brainstorm, bounce ideas off and make lifelong friends. You can reach your peers on Slack and through the discussion tool embedded in the online learning portal.

Support and feedback

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Next steps

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• Your Career Coach: Will support your job search strategy and help you create a powerful CV and Linkedin profile.

• The broader community and Academy Xi Alumni: to network, meet fantastic people and be an active member of the design, marketing and emerging tech industry.