My Achievements
Below are my Certificates of Achievement, which detail the areas that I have studied. I am confident in my abilities, and I am always willing to learn new things to better myself.
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.
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.