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UX Achievements

Demonstrating My UX Achievements: Explore my Certificates of Achievement below, showcasing my knowledge and expertise in key areas of user experience. My commitment to continuous learning ensures I bring up-to-date skills to every project.

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Gamification: Motivation Psychology & The Art of Engagement

Udemy

  • Understand the psychology of human behaviour
  • Motivate your students, staff, customers, users and yourself
  • Build an engagement plan to create change in a community

Pragmatic UX Design Critique: Heuristics to Audit Reporting

Udemy

  • Exploration of in-demand company tasks and the inefficiencies of traditional approaches.
  • Engaging classes and quizzes on basic heuristics.
  • Guidelines to understand digital product context.
  • Strategies for writing effective scenarios.
  • Techniques for identifying root causes of issues.
  • Prioritization of issues using a NASA-inspired framework.
  • Practical prioritization quizzes.
  • Methods for presenting findings to stakeholders for approval.
  • Access to valuable examples and additional resources.

Get Creative with People to Solve Problems

University of Leeds and Institute of Coding

  • Identify the kinds of problem that can be solved with human-centred design
  • Summarise the activities needed to run a successful human-centred design project
  • Develop a human-centred design mindset to approach a problem
  • Apply the Design Thinking process to a real-world problem
  • Investigate how making and testing rough prototypes helps improvement
  • Collect information and data that help prove a solution will work in the real world

Big Data: from Data to Decisions

Queensland University of Technology (QUT)

  • Identify big data application areas
  • Explore big data frameworks
  • Demonstrate an integrated approach to big data
  • Develop an awareness of how to participate effectively in a team working with big data experts

Create Accessible Interfaces

UAL Creative Computing Institute and Institute of Coding

  • Explore the issues that impact disabled users using creative technology
  • Describe how interfaces can be made more accessible for those with visual, hearing and cognitive impairments
  • Reflect on the kinds of experiences people with visual and hearing impairments have when using the internet, mobile devices and streaming services
  • Engage with the guidance available for those attempting to make their websites and services more accessible
  • Explore the forms of compliance necessary when creating websites and services
  • Describe how CSS and JavaScript can be used to allow users to customise their experience
  • Describe how you can create customisable interfaces with clear navigation

Digital Skills: Mobile

Accenture

  • Describe what mobility is in the context of digital
  • Describe the growth of mobility and benefits associated with it
  • Describe what mobile design is, including concepts such as wireframes
  • Identify seven principles of good mobile app design and the importance of effective design
  • Describe what the 'Internet of Things' is and some of the benefits associated with it
  • Identify security risks related to the 'Internet of Things'

UX Design Fundamentals: Delivering Value to Users

FutureLearn

  • Define and justify an ideation plan
  • Articulate how to leverage the concepts of diverge/converge in order to find wise solutions
  • Articulate the key elements of an implementation plan
  • Justify the right moment to execute an implementation plan
  • Recognise support mechanisms to keep an implementation plan going

Consumer Behaviour and Psychology

Coventry University

  • Describe consumer psychology
  • Assess the importance of consumer psychology
  • Explain how consumer psychology grew in parallel with the consumer society
  • Distinguish between consumer psychology, consumer behaviour and marketing
  • Describe consumer-oriented marketing
  • Apply the concepts of market segmentation and product positioning
  • Describe the process of consumer decision making
  • Explain the product lifecycle

Introduction to Psychology: Sensation and Perception

Monash University

  • Explain the structure and function of the sensory systems of vision, audition, touch, taste, and smell.
  • Assess the extent to which the processes of transduction and coding are common to all senses or specific to each different sense.
  • Compare the advantages and disadvantages of the main types of psychophysical methods.
  • Interpret some of the ways perceptual elements, including edges and contours, are perceptually grouped (Gestalt principles).
  • Evaluate the mechanisms of perceptual constancies.

Introduction to Psychology: The Psychology of Learning

Monash University

  • Discuss the term 'learning'.
  • Interpret the influence of behaviourism on the study of learning.
  • Explain the basic principles of classical and operant conditioning.
  • Identify the role of classical and/or operant conditioning in a real-world situation.
  • Explain how biological factors can influence some forms of learning.

certificate of achievement in pschology of learning

Consumer Behaviour and Psychology

Coventry University

  • Describe consumer psychology
  • Assess the importance of consumer psychology
  • Explain how consumer psychology grew in parallel with the consumer society
  • Distinguish between consumer psychology, consumer behaviour and marketing
  • Describe consumer-oriented marketing
  • Apply the concepts of market segmentation and product positioning
  • Describe the process of consumer decision making
  • Explain the product lifecycle

Introduction to UX and Accessible Design

UAL Creative Computing Institute and Institute of Coding

  • Explain the role of user experience (UX) and interfaces in design.
  • Describe the main features of accessible digital UX design.
  • Compare different types of digital UX design problems.
  • Describe principles behind accessible website UX.
  • Explore the accessible design approach.
  • Explore approaches and stages of accessible design.
  • Identify the roles and skills needed in the field of accessible interface design.

Introduction to Psychology: History and Science

Monash University

  • Assess the principles by which psychology is considered a science.
  • Investigate the central tenets of the major theoretical frameworks that have shaped the modern discipline of psychology.
  • Identify the pioneers of psychology associated with structuralism, functionalism, behaviorism, cognitivism, and psychoanalysis.

Creating a Great User Experience for Mobile Apps

University of Leeds and Institute of Coding

  • Identify the features of a smartphone that influence the design of an app.
  • Describe how interactive and visual features contribute to great user experience of apps.
  • Discuss the various roles and stages necessary to make a mobile app.
  • Identify and describe a simple problem that an app could solve.
  • Design screens and architecture of a mobile app using pen, paper and your own smartphone.
  • Produce clickable prototypes from your sketches and test them.

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