Wellington: DA Conversations Autumn series — Meet the speakers
This years DA Conversations are back in Wellington with local creatives sharing their stories. In the lead up to next week’s event, let’s meet the speakers! Angela Meyer — Co-Director […]
8 years ago by Amane Cárdenas
UX Gym Workshop Wellington: User Interface Design — Designing for Screens
This practical course focuses on design for screens, from application user interfaces to web design. This course could be taken as a complement to one of our user centered design courses or as a stand alone course for designers, developers and product managers who want to learn more about making design decisions for screens.
NOTE: This is a design course, not a coding course although it does include a summary of the most common technologies used to implement web and UI design.
It covers:
- Graphic design for screens including layout, type management, colour and image handling.
- Making layout and design decisions for responsive layouts and various screen sizes
- An introduction to how design is implemented on the web and native apps
- Basic IA, usability and user centered design processes for UI design
- Selecting UI controls and common UI design problems
- An introduction to UI libraries
- An introduction to design software for UI design
- Modern UI design conventions and emerging trends
- Solving common UI design problems
- Best practice for documenting and managing screen design
- User behaviour and decision making for screen based designs and interfaces
Who is it for?
This course is suitable for:
- People with little or no previous experience of screen design
- Graphic designers and service designers who want to learn more about user interface and web design
- Product owners and managers who want to be able to better communicate with their UX and UI designers
If you are unsure if this course is right for you please contact us, we are happy to talk over the course with you in more detail.
No previous UX, UI, or design experience is necessary.
You will need a laptop with your graphic design or layout programme of choice although if you don’t have access to a laptop or to graphic design software let us know and we can arrange to provide some for you.
We will provide all other materials.
How does this differ from our ‘UX Crash Course’ and ‘Intro to UX’ courses?
Although our ‘UX Crash Course’ and ‘Intro to UX’ course do include a section of designing for screens their primary focus is on teaching an evidence based user centered design process. They teach a process that includes research, design and testing.
Just as our ‘User Research’ and ‘User Testing and Prototyping’ courses go deeper into the research and testing aspects of this process, the ‘User Interface Design: Designing for screens’ course is focused primarily on the design phase and goes deeper into the mechanics of making detailed user interface decisions.
DA Workshop Wellington: Applying Design Thinking to creating Māori Graphic Design — Friday 27th April
After a successful series of workshops last year, Design Assembly welcomes back Johnson McKay, Creative Director at Fly to present his half-day workshop focussing on Māori Graphic Design.
Applying Design Thinking to creating Māori Graphic Design
Friday 27th April 2018
9am—1:30pm
Credenza
40 Taranaki Street Level 2, NEC Building
Wellington
$350 Professional / $250 Design Assembly Friend / $150 Design Assembly Student Friend + GST
(Not a DA Friend? Details on how to sign up can be found here).
Nau mai, haere mai!
There is a growing demand for authentic products, experiences and connection with people and community. This has created a growing desire to authentically engage with and share Māori culture, narratives and forms of expression. This workshop is designed to help anyone who would like to explore and understand authentic Māori Design, in a supportive and accepting environment.
The workshop explores three key aspects to using Māori design:
Purpose — We review a broad spectrum of historical and contemporary case studies of Māori design to define the purpose of different forms of Māori art forms and how we can apply these to contemporary applications. Of importance is what is traditional vs modern, authentic vs inauthentic Māori design.
Protection — Gain a deeper understanding of key aspects of Tikanga Māori and how they assist at protecting and elevating Māori design in a variety of contexts. Want are appropriate design narratives and how do you add to the body of amazing work being produced without plagiarising or offending.
Partnership — We discuss four different kinds of partnership models and help attendees identify which model is appropriate for their aspirations to incorporate Māori concepts into their brand or product. Several barriers are also reviewed and solutions proposed.
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About the facilitator: Johnson McKay (Ngāti Kahungunu, Tainui Waikato, Ngāti Porou), award winning Creative Director at Fly. Johnson’s insights come from various years in creative direction for brands as diverse as Air New Zealand, McDonalds, Fisher & Paykel Healthcare and Māori Television.
Terms and Conditions: If you cancel your ticket more than 8 days ahead of the workshop, 100% of your ticket will be refunded. Within 7 days of the workshop, 50% of the ticket price will be refunded or you can transfer your ticket to another Design Assembly workshop within a year.
Off Grid 18: The Experiential City
This February head to Wellington, New Zealand for Off Grid 18: The Experiential City. Extra ‘stopovers’ in Melbourne, Sydney, and Brisbane will help you break up your travel and experience […]
8 years ago by Lana Lopesi
Wellington: DA’s End of Year Wrap Party 2018
2018 is almost a wrap!
Save the date for DA’s End of Year Wrap Party in Wellington: Thursday 29th November at Fortune Favours. Join your fellow designers and creatives and celebrate the end of the year and the start of summer with us.
DA’s End of Year Wrap Party, Wellington
Thursday, 29th November
from 6.00pm
Fortune Favours
7 Leeds Street
Wellington
Tickets are FREE but numbers are limited. 1 drink per person for the first 30 people that arrive.
Wellington Adobe Creative Jam 2017 Review
On Thursday 6th July Wellington designers and creatives got together at the College of Creative Arts at Massey University to hear from local creative industry superstars Jarred Bishop, Celeste Skachill (designer at Te Papa Museum), and Fraser […]
8 years ago by Louise Kellerman
Celebrating Matariki 2017
25 June marks the beginning of Matariki for 2017. This year HP and Design Assembly have collaborated with Wellington designer Tim Walter Hansen to create a typographic illustration that you can download […]
9 years ago by Louise Kellerman
DA Conversations Podcast with Pete Montgomery, May 2017
Welcome to Design Assembly Conversations. In this series we talk to New Zealand graphic designers, hear their stories, and celebrate their work.
In this episode I spoke to Pete Montgomery. Pete is currently the Creative Director at Xero in Wellington. Xero is a NZ based company that develops cloud-based accounting software
9 years ago by Louise Kellerman
Innovation by Design — a Design Thinking workshop, Wellington
This full-day workshop explores Design Thinking, a deeply human-centered methodology that taps into abilities we all have but that get overlooked by more ‘common’ problem-solving methods. This approach allows people (even non-designers) to use creative tools to address a myriad of different problem-solving or innovation challenges.
9 years ago by Louise Kellerman
Innovation by Design — a Design Thinking workshop, Wellington
This full-day workshop explores Design Thinking, a deeply human-centered methodology that taps into abilities we all have but that get overlooked by more ‘common’ problem-solving methods. This approach allows people (even non-designers) to use creative tools to address a myriad of different problem-solving or innovation challenges.
During the workshop we will go through Design Thinking modules that explore empathy techniques to connect with our audiences and to recover our natural ability to be intuitive, to be curious when we are new to something, to recognise patterns, to construct ideas that are emotionally meaningful as well as functional, and to express ourselves in visual ways. We will combine the two traditional paths to innovation (emotional/intuitive thinking and rational/analytical thinking) into this integrated ‘third way’ that Design Thinking offers.
Who should attend?
Anyone with an interest in connecting better with their audiences and/or who is keen in problem-solving and innovation. This workshop is recommended for those who are new to Design Thinking or those who already have some experience and would like to expand or brush-up their Design Thinking skills.
Learning outcomes:
- Empathy: how to have conversations with your audience (techniques on how to map your audience, how to observe behaviours and have meaningful conversations, persona mapping –pain, gains, etc)
- Definition: how to frame a ‘problem’ (or challenge) and define a game-changing opportunity
- Ideation: how to generate lots of ideas and choose one to go with! (using different ideation methods)
- Prototyping: how to ‘make’ a rapid-prototype to quickly test and learn (even failing quickly to recover fast)
- Testing: how to test and learn from potential users applying further empathy techniques
- Storytelling: how to summarise and learn from this innovation exercise to create more meaningful products/services/experiences.
About Raul:
Raul Sarrot is a designer, strategist and design coach who specialises in helping enterprises incorporate design into all areas of their organisations, from board discussions to brand creation, communication strategies, etc.
Raul offers a rich background as a multi-disciplinary designer, a strategist, a design thinking coach, and an academic lecturer and researcher. His experience has been forged over 25 years working alongside a wide range of commercial and not-for-profit clients in many countries the world.
Beyond leading Freshfish, his own boutique strategy and design studio, Raul is also a Design Thinking Coach for Better By Design (NZTE), the Chairman of AUT Communication Design Advisory Committee, a music composer, and a proud father of three girls!