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We also hold a series of online events throughout the year that can be accessed throughout New Zealand and internationally.
Keep an eye on this page, follow us on social media or sign-up to our email at the bottom of the website for all the upcoming events and workshops near you.
July 2021
WELLINGTON UX Gym Workshop: User Interface (UI) Design
Learn how to design a user interface (UI) by learning how people understand and make decisions when using screen-based interfaces, and how to respond to this when making your own design decisions. In this course you put everything you learn into practice by creating your own interface design in professional design software. Course description This practical course focuses on design for screens, from application user interfaces to web design. We cover common behaviour patterns when people are trying to understand…
Find out more »August 2021
CHRISTCHURCH DA Annual Pub Quiz 2021
The DA Annual Pub Quiz is back for 2021! Join us for an evening of graphic design, arts and culture trivia — you know you want this year’s bragging rights! Pit your studio against the rest, or if you’re working independently, we can pop you in a team or you can gather together a team of your design colleagues. Show your creative peers just how much you know, and enjoy an evening amongst the biggest design nerds in Christchurch. Your…
Find out more »AUCKLAND UX Gym Workshop: Usability Testing and Prototyping
Learn how to run usability testing on existing digital products and services and create clickable prototypes for concepts still in the design stage. This practical course gives you everything you need to make sure the design, implementation and analysis of your tests gives you reliable and usable insights. Course description User testing designs through prototyping helps us to safely explore risky ideas, get a feel for how real people will respond to our designs and, most importantly, lets us fail…
Find out more »WEBINAR: Stronger, Better, Happier Studio Program Walk Through
Join Louise Kellerman from Design Assembly and Andy Wright from Streamtime as they walk you through what to expect from their Stronger Better Happier Studio Program. Louise and Andy will give you an overview of the course and take you through some of the content in module one and two so you'll be able to get a good idea of whether this course is right for you. var humanitix = { findPos: function(obj) { var curtop = 0; if (obj.offsetParent)…
Find out more »WELLINGTON UX Gym Workshop: Information Architecture
Learn one of UX design’s most fundamental skill sets: how to organise the information in a digital product or service so that it makes sense to real people. This course takes you through a human-centred design approach to making digital content findable and understandable. Course description Learning how to organise, describe, and present the information in your website or app is one of the fundamental skills that make up UX design. Information architecture (IA) is the glue that holds complex…
Find out more »CHRISTCHURCH DA Workshop: Writing for Designers with Mark Easterbrook
Even purely visual design work is surrounded by language. We use words to inform, explain and persuade our audiences before, during and after a design project. This workshop will step above the nuts and bolts of grammar and spelling and look at what makes good writing good, so workshop attendees can develop their confidence with the written word.
Find out more »DA Online Event – Under The Hood August, Two Designers & Two Projects
Thanks to our event partners Adobe, you are invited to join us for our monthly online event where two designers walk us through how a design project worked and an Adobe rep shares tips and tricks to improve your daily workflow.
Find out more »WELLINGTON UX Gym Workshop: Usability Testing and Prototyping
Learn how to run usability testing on existing digital products and services and create clickable prototypes for concepts still in the design stage. This practical course gives you everything you need to make sure the design, implementation and analysis of your tests gives you reliable and usable insights. Course description User testing designs through prototyping helps us to safely explore risky ideas, get a feel for how real people will respond to our designs and, most importantly, lets us fail…
Find out more »September 2021
AUCKLAND DA Workshop: The Value of Strategy with Raul Sarrot
In this 3-hour course, we will do a deep dive in the world of business and brand strategy, exploring how we can translate core purpose into a meaningful value-driven strategy. While we work on hands-on activities to co-create a meaningful strategic framework and an activation plan, we will answer the specific questions or challenges you might have around your business/brand.
Find out more »AUCKLAND DA Workshop: Design Thinking Reloaded with Raul Sarrot
What is the best way to deeply engage with your clients to better understand challenges and opportunities? In this workshop we will explore how we could complement Design Thinking with other co-creation techniques to work alongside your client and deeply understand problems and to come up with game-changing solutions.
Find out more »WELLINGTON DA Workshop: The Value of Strategy with Raul Sarrot
In this 3-hour course, we will do a deep dive in the world of business and brand strategy, exploring how we can translate core purpose into a meaningful value-driven strategy. While we work on hands-on activities to co-create a meaningful strategic framework and an activation plan, we will answer the specific questions or challenges you might have around your business/brand.
Find out more »WELLINGTON DA Workshop: Design Thinking Reloaded with Raul Sarrot
What is the best way to deeply engage with your clients to better understand challenges and opportunities? In this workshop we will explore how we could complement Design Thinking with other co-creation techniques to work alongside your client and deeply understand problems and to come up with game-changing solutions.
Find out more »October 2021
CHRISTCHURCH DA Workshop: Welcome to Te Ao Maori with Johnson McKay
Prices: $400+gst Professional | $300+gst Design Assembly Friend | $100+gst Student (Not a DA Friend? Details on how to sign up can be found here) Register now The creative community plays a major role in connecting people to ideas, products and services that shape who we are as a people and a nation. To reflect an authentic Aotearoa we need to naturally weave into our craft the stories, values and perspectives at the heart of Māori culture. This workshop helps those…
Find out more »CHRISTCHURCH DA Workshop: The Value of Strategy with Raul Sarrot
In this 3-hour course, we will do a deep dive in the world of business and brand strategy, exploring how we can translate core purpose into a meaningful value-driven strategy. While we work on hands-on activities to co-create a meaningful strategic framework and an activation plan, we will answer the specific questions or challenges you might have around your business/brand.
Find out more »CHRISTCHURCH DA Workshop: Design Thinking Reloaded with Raul Sarrot
What is the best way to deeply engage with your clients to better understand challenges and opportunities? In this workshop we will explore how we could complement Design Thinking with other co-creation techniques to work alongside your client and deeply understand problems and to come up with game-changing solutions.
Find out more »November 2021
AUCKLAND DA Workshop: Writing for Designers with Mark Easterbrook
Even purely visual design work is surrounded by language. We use words to inform, explain and persuade our audiences before, during and after a design project. This workshop will step above the nuts and bolts of grammar and spelling and look at what makes good writing good, so workshop attendees can develop their confidence with the written word.
Find out more »