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UX Design_

Evening Short Course

Length of Course: 4 Weeks

Course Price: R6 600

Next On-Campus Class Starts: 28 February

Next Virtual Class Starts : 17 January

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Meet your lecturers_

Dimitris Broad

Dimitris completed his studies in Marketing, Visual Design and Digital Design. He is currently a part time lecturer and UI/UX designer for a app development agency.

Schalk Venter

Schalk is a full-time freelancer that works on various personal, commercial and open-source projects. His focus primarily lies within the world of user research, interface design and front-end development. He is also a co-founder and head of operations at Front-end Development South Africa (FEDSA).

Please note all our lecturers work as a team, and are booked based on their independent schedules. As such, course allocations are subject to change.

I would suggest these classes to anyone – the lecturer can teach novices to extremely experienced learners. He has good classroom management skills and maintains open communication with all learners. This was an excellent learning experience for me.

Lester Vermeulen

Designer, Zando

Fantastic lecturers who have shown a lot of patience and understanding towards their students.

Nineve Van Zyl

Course Attendee

Great pace and clarity of teaching.

Gary Kramer

Course Attendee

The lecturers supported me in the way I think, and gave me inputs to improve my website.

Sabrina Bruehwiler

Course Attendee

Good paced course. I had fun learning and participating in this course.

Jan Binder

Course Attendee

The lecturer had a great sense of humour, passion for his subject, knowledge and interesting inclusion of discussion of other forms of design.

Kelly Dorrington

Course Attendee

Interactive, fun and confident. The course was loaded with information and ideas.

Elizabeth von Hollstein

Course Attendee

I greatly enjoyed that the lecturer offered 'industry secrets and tricks'.

Kelly Dorrington

Course Attendee

This module has been great fun and very interesting with regards to capabilities.

Roxanne Fowler

Course attendee

Good learning environment with a friendly lecturer

Ricky Okhiria

Course attendee

The lecturer is great! Very knowledgable and had good insight and experience to share with us.

Andrea Morgan

Course Attendee

All in all a great learning experience and definitely money well spent.

Karien Tolmie

Course Attendee

Busy doing After Effects with Lodi Paul, what a powerhouse of information and inspirational lecturer. True quality education, knowledge and experience it's opened my world to another dimension in what's available in the world of advertising, motion graphics, animation and the like. Thanks Lodi

Grant Cyan Williams

The course and lecturer was great. When I didn't understand something I could always ask without feeling bad. The way in which the course was conducted was great. My overall experience was good and I will definitely come back.

Stacey Okkers

Group Graphic Designer, Vineyard Hotel

Lovely experience, was patiently and thoroughly taught the essentials of After Effects. The course schedule worked perfectly with my work schedule. Everything was easy to understand and helping assistance was always available.

Diandra Mcpherson

Learning and Development, Old Mutual Finance

I have done short courses at a different institution before and I must say that my experience at the Academy of Digital Arts was infinitely better. The lecturer was great, very informative and always willing to help. Even though I had a very good understanding and a lot of experience in After Effects before the course I found that I learnt a lot regardless and got and even better understanding of the program which is what I wanted to achieve. I actually wish the course had been a week or two longer just to gain more knowledge but I think I'll have to come back to the Academy of Digital Arts for a different course.

Morgana Marengo

Sneaker Lab

I greatly enjoyed studying with the Academy of Digital Arts. Great lecturers and atmosphere, I would definitely come back!

Rebecca Miller

Course Attendee

Shot Academy of Digital Arts for an awesome course. I thought I knew everything when my company signed me up, but you opened my eyes to some great tricks of the trade and work processes.

James van Rensburg

Course Attendee

Was impressed by the material and lecturing style. The trainer was engaging and knowledgeable, and took us step by step through the process. Well structured and polished.

Carla Kloen

Course Attendee

I have thoroughly enjoyed this course. It has been such a significant experience for me because I have never been surrounded with so many people as excited about Concept Art as I am. I'd recommend this course to as many people as I can.

Kalynne Forster

Course Attendee

Great start to begin concept art, really opened my eyes to how objects are created using different values of grey. 10/10. Would recommend to others.

Wesley du Preez

Graphic Designer

A++ for Andrew being the most enthusiastic teacher and knowing his stuff.

Kira Ihlein

Course Attendee

Most focused drawing/painting course I've been to, could feel myself improve. Loved it, you're a brilliant lecturer.

Tessa Wessels

Course Attendee

I have done short courses at a different institution before and I must say that my experience at Friends of Design was infinitely better. The lecturer was great, very informative and always willing to help. Even though I had a very good understanding and a lot of experience in After Effects before the course I found that I learnt a lot regardless and got and even better understanding of the program which is what I wanted to achieve. I actually wish the course had been a week or two longer just to gain more knowledge but I think I'll have to come back to Friends of Design for a different course.

Morgana Marengo

Sneaker Lab

An introduction to UX Design

A User Experience Designer is focused on how a website**feels**
The responsibility of a UX designer is to make sure a website flows logically. UX Designers are in a way like mini-psychologists, they ask questions that are routed in Behavioural Psychology, in order to understand better what people do when it comes to using digital platforms. They also do what is known as Beta-Testing, so the UX designer can gain a better understanding of how people are interpreting and interacting with the intended communication.

UX isthe first step in the creation of a website. The students willgain a deeper understanding into the methodologies used to create and test the User Experience, to enhance the design and provide a better end product for both the client and the end user.

In this course you will learn the following skills:

Wireframes | Creating Wireframes using Balsamiq | Setting up prototypes in InVision

Testing Methods
From eye tracking to timing, working in labs or accessing the user remotely. Testing is all about what the user thinks.

Working UX Into A Project Management Plan | UX strategy in action | Agile | RITE

Facts, Figures and FAQ.

Course Requirements
If you're on-campus, you'll need to know how to use a computer but, other than that, just bring yourself, a notebook and pen. We provide the machines and the software.

If you're virtual, You'll need to have a computer and know how to use it. In addition you will also need a stable internet connection.

What do you receive with the course?
You will receive an Academy of Digital Arts Certificate of Completion.

An ADA email address and 1 terabyte of storage.

Course Price: R6 600 per student

2021 On-Campus Course Schedule

26 April – 19 May
2 August – 25 August
25 October – 17 November (TBD)

Monday – Wednesday, 17h30 – 20h30

2021 Virtual Course Schedule

1 March – 24 March
26 July – 18 August

Monday – Wednesday, 18h00 – 20h30

Classes on a public holiday will shift to the next available date, arranged by the lecturer.

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