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Taught by leading experts

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What you will learn

Gain contemporary skills and knowledge for your job now.

Designing products that stand out in a crowded marketplace requires a combination of human-centred and technology-driven approaches that solve real problems.

Led by subject-matter experts, this micro-credential features a one-day industry-led workshop that explores new advances in emerging interactive technologies, such as VR, AR, and AI.

Throughout this course, you'll be empowered with the tools and capabilities to create exciting user-friendly products that merge new technologies with hands-on making and design-thinking activities.

Ideal for technology developers, UI/UX designers, game developers and product managers, this highly practical micro-credential is delivered in collaboration with international design consultancy MAKE studios and is essential for anyone interested in design principles.

Explore human-centred and tech-driven design

Examine inquiry-led human-centred design processes and compare these to invention-led technology-oriented perspectives. Learn to adapt your process to incorporate both approaches and push your ideas into adventurous spaces.

Gain practical experience with emerging technologies

Take part in a one-day immersive workshop at our Interactive Technologies Lab. You'll explore, design, and develop new and innovative products using emerging interactive technologies, including eye-tracking VR, AR, and AI.

Progress your ideas

During ideation sessions, explore methods for driving ideas into unchartered territory enabled by emerging technologies. Understand how to elicit valuable customer feedback during user experience research.

Harness and apply prototyping techniques

Apply techniques for prototyping experiences beyond screens. Gain strategies to help stakeholders envision future applications of emerging technologies.

Develop an original interactive design

Understand how to harness emerging technologies to design original interactive products that feature exceptional user experience. Use your new knowledge to conceptualise and submit a design for a novel interactive system that enables users to engage with digital applications in a meaningful way.

Who you will learn from

Learn from skilled academics and professional experts who will share invaluable knowledge you can use in your job.

Dr Eduardo Velloso

Senior lecturer and researcher

Eduardo is a creative technologist and researcher who designs novel interactions for emerging technologies. He has a particular interest in user experiences enabled by novel input and sensing modalities, the design of new interaction devices and techniques, and the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning in interactive systems. His work has received awards from leading publications in Human-Computer Interaction, including best papers at CHI, TOCHI, UIST, and TEI.

Fees

For individuals

To take Experience Design for Emerging Technologies as a stand-alone micro-credential, you'll pay the normal course price.

$1190.00 AUD (inc GST)

Please contact Student Support to discuss discounts and payment options for University of Melbourne staff or alumni, or to pay by invoice.

For teams

If you have three or more team members who are keen to upskill with Experience Design for Emerging Technologies, get in touch to discuss pricing. For large groups, we can also deliver and contextualise this course exclusively for your organisation.

Pricing on request

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