Achievements
Explore my Certificates of Achievement below, showcasing my knowledge and expertise in key areas of user experience and psychology. My commitment to continuous learning ensures I bring up-to-date skills to every project.
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.
INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOLOGY: BIOLOGICAL PSYCHology
Monash University
- Explore the role of genes in normal behaviour.
- Interpret examples of heritable diseases affecting behaviour (e.g. Fragile X syndrome).
- Assess the critical importance of the environment in shaping behaviour.
- Identify the major divisions of the nervous system and major neural systems.
- Identify neural system cell types and describe their functions, including how resting potential becomes an action potential.
- Compare the role of synapses in communication within the nervous system.
- Explain the roles of neurotransmitters in behaviour.
- Identify the endocrine system, the major glands and the role of hormones in regulating bodily functions.
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.