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University of Melbourne

  • 37% international / 63% domestic

Experience Design for Emerging Technologies micro-credential

  • Non-Award

Engage in an advanced immersive technologies workshop to gain essential skills for designing innovative products. Develop industry-ready skills, learn from leading experts, and earn a shareable digital certificate.

Key details

Degree Type
Non-Award
Duration
4 - 4 weeks full-time
Study Mode
In person, Online

About this course

Experience Design for Emerging Technologies

Engage in an advanced immersive technologies workshop and gain essential skills to design innovative new products.

Level up with micro-credentialsIndustry-ready skills

Develop in-demand skills aligned with industry best practice you can apply immediately.

Taught by leading experts

Learn from internationally recognised academics and professionals with years of on the ground experience.

Shareable digital certificate

Showcase your capabilities with an industry recognised digital certificate you can share with your professional network.

Study locations

Online

What you will learn

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.

Course structure

Course details

This course runs over four weeks, with one pre-teaching week, two weeks for delivery, and one week for assessment.

Your total time commitment is approximately 42 hours, which includes:

  • 6 hours face-to-face guided learning in a one-day workshop
  • 16 hours online guided learning activities and independent research
  • 20 hours assessment tasks

Assessment:

  • A conceptual design of a novel interactive system that employs an emerging technology (100%).