Apprenticeship - Digital User Experience (Ux) Professional Degree Apprenticeship

Year one

• Introduction to Visual Communication
  This will introduce you to the concept of exploiting visual communication across different digital and physical media, including key software tools and techniques to expand your ability to produce compelling creative work.
• Digital Skills and Technologies for the Web
  As a basis for understanding the potential in building online user experiences, you will be able to experience coding in the essential tools for bringing your designs to life and learn how to plan and deliver a well-structured outcome for your target audience.
• Introduction to Digital UX Design
  This will allow you to start to explore in more depth the fundamental components that combine to produce highly usable interaction designs, introduce design methodology, user profiling, wire-framing, prototyping and techniques of critical evaluation.
• Managing Design
  In this module, you will be introduced to the principles of managing the design process within a business context, and how to champion the value of UX design as a driver for innovation, including ethical and legal responsibilities.

Year two

• The Digital Studio
  Building on your work in Year 1, you will be able to consider the different roles working in the professional landscape, such as user research, user interface design, usability testing, information architecture, and visual design, and the complementary skills involved
• Professional Development – Leadership, & Team Working
  Project teams rely on complementary skills and knowledge, and this module will expose you to the theory of team composition, and the characteristics of effective team performance and how to develop your own capacity to influence when working on group projects.
• Collaborative Design
  Structured corporate design activity and decision-making requires working with others to achieve high-quality goals. The collaborative project environment will develop your confidence and ability to communicate and present in a professional manner.
• User Behaviour and Interactive Data Visualisation
  The aim of the module is for you to gain an understanding of how users interact with data visualisations, and how to improve the design. You will also look in more depth at user needs in order create interactive solutions as part of intensifying your understanding of user-centred design.
• Live Creative Digital Practice
  This is an opportunity to bring your learned skills and knowledge together into an extensive project that shows your capacity to identify, research, define, visualise, execute, and critically evaluate an extended UX project.

Year three

• Advanced Research Project for Digital UX Design Practice
  The discipline of UX Design requires the capacity to undertake structured research across several different facets, as a prelude to making, or improving, design decisions. This module enables you, in discussion with your Tutor and your employer, to consider a specific area of investigation that is of particular interest or relevance to you, your role, and your potential career path in UX Design
• Advanced Digital UX Design Project
  Having produced an extensive research proposal in the previous module, this is the opportunity for you to use it as the basis to experience taking overall responsibility for leadership, decision-making and production of a major UX project to a professional standard, and to synthesise and display your knowledge and skills already explored in previous modules.
• Leadership & Applied Project Management: CPD and Portfolio
  This final module will provide a deeper excursion into more advanced project management techniques including stakeholder management, risk management, cost-benefit concerns, time-estimation, and document production.