UX Australia 2015

Full day workshop. Wednesday 26 August 2015

Description

This full-day workshop is ideal for UX designers, interaction designers, or IAs looking to develop their visual design skills. Attendees will learn the fundamentals of form, layout, typography, colour theory, icon design, visual idea generation, and production design practice. The workshop is designed to take advantage of attendees’ existing design knowledge and supplement it with visual design theory and extensive exercises. Team critique will help attendees iterate on their work and learn from others’ approaches. Exercises cover a variety of digital platforms, from web to mobile, from content-driven sites to functional apps.

What you’ll learn

In this workshop you will:

• Learn the fundamentals of visual design from a UX designer perspective
• Appreciate how to use visual techniques to solve design problems
• Practice using visual design theory and team critique to strength one’s work
• Build confidence to create one’s one visual designs
• Learn how to communicate better with visual designers

Workshop structure

This workshop combines principles, hands-on design work, critique and group discussion.

Target audience

Any UX designer wishing to improve their visual literacy or to move into full-stack product design.

What to bring

You’ll need to bring a laptop, running graphic design software (preferably Sketch – full or trial version).

What you’ll take away

Keynote slides & resource lists.