The advanced UX course designed for career changers to be more employable with CX + agile project management focused
Certified Agile Digital Product Design Expert (CADPDE)
Dreaming of Becoming an Amazing UX Specialist or Product designer?
If so, then don't just stop studying - it's not enough!
Take your skills to the next level and equip yourself with CX + agile digital project management experience.
By placing the client/investor first your learning experience is sure to be inspirational and practical. Through research, visual design, information architecture and interaction you will learn how to create product designs that meet business needs while also bringing a range of user benefits. And with Scrum framework knowledge under your belt – inventing processes for project development plus honing sprint planning skills - complex problems are easily solvable!
87% of managers want Digital Product Designer
(over UX designer)
With an agile project management focus, this course will empower you to become a leader in the tech industry. Your mission: transform your skills into tangible results and job-winning potential! Equip yourself with the right tools that'll make you shine in any fast-paced working environment.
Product designer vs UX designer
According to various salary aggregate websites, product designers tend to have slightly higher average salaries than UX designers globally.
Digital Product Designer
Generally involved in the entire design process of a product, including brainstorming, UX, project management, customer experience and business-related processes.
Past experience can include UX design, leading projects, and collaborating with other teams.
Product designers tend to be more business-oriented. This might manifest in working more closely with business or product teams than a typical UX designer might, and ensuring business needs are met in a finished product.
UX Designer
Designs with a focus on making products pleasant to use and navigate. Generally has a more narrow focus than product designers.
Past experience can include visual or graphic design, interaction design, and UX knowledge.
UX designers are more design focused. UX designers are often expected to design the actual visual and interactive elements of a product. That’s not to say that product designers don’t—but as a UX designer, expect to dig in a little more into the hands-on aspects of designing a user-friendly product.
Is your UX programme covers the next big thing in the tech industry - key to be more hireable?
It's crucial to understand that simply learning UX design is no longer enough to secure a job in today's competitive market. To truly stand out, you need to possess a comprehensive skill set that includes UX, CX, and agile project management. At IDNZ, we have created a game-changing solution by combining these essential skills into our cutting-edge Agile Product Design and Management course.
UX design revolves around crafting a seamless and delightful user experience when interacting with a product or service. It goes beyond mere functionality and delves into how users perceive and connect with the offering. On the other hand, product design is centered around developing usable products that meet customer and business needs. It encompasses the overseeing of end-to-end journey, starting from ideation to final design, testing, and delivery. Our course covers every aspect of product design, including discovery, UX research, agile project management, and business requirements.
While product design takes a holistic approach to the UX project of product development, UX design places emphasis on the user's complete journey, encompassing their emotions, goals, and motivations. By mastering the skills taught in our Agile Product Design and Management course, you'll not only learn how to create functional products but also how to craft experiences that users genuinely love. Furthermore, you'll gain valuable insights into driving business success and generating organisational value.
Don't settle for just learning UX design—choose the comprehensive training that will empower you to make a lasting impact as a skilled practitioner of agile product design and management.
Full stack industry-focused agile project management programme for experience designer
Become industry ready in 10 weeks
with a real project
Updated for agile tech industry
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Updated for agile tech industry 〰️
What I will get
Being a UX designer isn’t enough, become hireable.
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Technical Design Skill
A product that’s pleasing to the eye can delight customers and make for a pleasant user experience. Job descriptions often request you have a sense of aesthetics, and some knowledge of the tools used in visual design. These can include Figma, Sketch, or Adobe Creative Suite.
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CX/UX Research & Strategising Skill
Understanding what a user wants to accomplish, what their pain points are, and how a product makes them feel is a core component of design. Technical skills to learn can include wireframing and prototyping, conducting research, and testing product features. Prototyping tools can include Framer, Principle, or Figma.
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Agile Project Management Skill
Having some practice seeing the bigger picture of a process, being able to strategise, and knowing how to execute a vision can come in handy as a product designer. You don’t have to have worked as a project manager, but some experience creating, overseeing, or implementing a project can be useful.
What I will learn
Unlock the door to your dream job and give yourself an edge - doubling your chances of being hired just by taking this simple step!
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This module introduces the Agile Experience Design mindset and explores implications for agile methodology into your project.
What you will learn:
1. Agile mindset in workplace
2. Agile scrum methodology
3. Agile UX project management -
This module explores the implications for triple-diamond model and stakeholder management into your project. You will have an ideation session with the stakeholder, review your sprint planning and product/service backlog with your mentor - the start of Agile Scrum.
What you will learn:
1. Ideation with stakeholder
2. Stakeholder interview
3. Sprint planning -
Strengthen your human-centric design approach by applying design thinking techniques, including personas and experience mapping to validate a solution to a real user problem (user story), not just immediate problem.
What you will learn:
1. Problem statements & user stories
2. Requirements gathering
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Learn the critical soft skills needed to manage the development and execution phase of the product. Take an idea through concept, design, and user validation phases, and create a spec to handoff to engineering for development.
What you will learn:
1. Survey design
2. User personas
3. User journey mapping
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Map out the full concept through creation of a prototype that can be used to validate that you’re solving a problem for real users. You will create an MVP by considering heuristic approach and accessibility. Learn to translate the user flows into wire flow towards hi-fi prototyping. You will turn those insights into a solution by creating a design draft and testing mock-up to review your solution.
What you will learn:
1. Synthesis
2. Sketching
3. Wireframing
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Learn the proper way to conduct user testing for the next design iteration, by assessing the pain points and insights from user testing. Iterate to improve usability.
What you will learn:
1. Testing plan
2. Recruit participants
3. Usability testing flow
4. Analysis data & feedback
5. Result reporting
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Learn the best practice of designing for accessibility by using WCAG and apply consistency using pattern and component library - a must-know for digital product designer.
What you will learn:
1. Accessibility review
2. Design system -
Validate your testing and design strategy. Learn how the industry collaborates with experience designers in design sprints towards product release.
What you will learn:
1. Presentation deck for sprint review -
Present & pitch your UX solution to stakeholders through winning storytelling prior to hand over.
What you will learn:
1. Stakeholder showcase
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Explore the future trend of UX by knowing futures design, web 3.0 and Ai in digital UX design.
What you will learn:
1. Future trends of UX
2. Employment preparation: CV, portfolio & job interview
Pick Your Real Project
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Energy Educators
Design a seamless booking experience to install in-home display units for clients. You are required to solve problems for installers to manage bookings efficiently and notify customers of the installation. This involves dashboard design for customers bookings and installers to prioritise installation according to regional bookings. This is a Victoria Government Initiative in Australia.
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Audiobook New Zealand
Design a full-stack user experience for a library site. You will blueprint a library subscription payment experience, search book features, linking the full catalogue into the school database, design a user login to acquire books as well as to the administrator to update the full catalogue. This design involves creating user flow, research and testing, with potential to elevate for business and individual clients use.
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Chefers
This is a start-up project which provides a platform for the creators to share food recipes, accepting tips and member subscriptions. You are required to design journeys for creators and members on profile dashboard, micro-payment transaction, and content page with the interaction between the creators and members.
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InsightOut
This is a council initiated project to match business mentors with the mentees - an approach to support small business owners to get through difficult times to start up business during the pandemic. You are required to redesign the mentors and mentees dashboard, mentor booking experience, mentor-mentee matching features and payment transactions platform.
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Kiss IT
Design a seamless booking experience to book clients. You are required to solve UX problems for customers to manage bookings efficiently and notify customers of their appointment.
This involves dashboard design for customers’ types of bookings and Kiss IT to prioritise service according to the job requirements.. -
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Day Spa Richmond
Research and design a full-stack user experience website/web app.
You will look at how you can improve the experience on the current website to enable loyal customers, and cross-selling to other products with the implementation of their digital marketing channels and funnel. Members portal and staff portal to be incorporated to foster a community internally.
You have the keys to mastering what's proven in the industry with us.
Take your qualifications to the next level
Expand beyond simply just meeting NZQA standards and access expertise that will excel you to senior roles.
UX & CX
Benefits of Agile in experience design
““No matter the size of your organisation, Agile approach enables you to be more efficient, better address your customers’ wants, and be more aligned with the organisation’s goals””
You get more done - The Agile working approach results in up to 60% more work done.
You get the right things done - As a squad or an individual, you are developing ideas, scoring them, and then executing. It’s a team effort toward a team goal and agreed-upon priorities.
You adapt to change quickly - UX designers have been dealing with change since the iteration of the product, but agile means your ability to adapt to change is much quicker and more thoughtful incrementally.
You improve communications - Agile calls for teams to be aligned in their approach, and transparent in sharing what they’re working on. This leads to improved communication – and not just for the design team, but across departments including sales and senior management.
“86% of our learners got promoted and elevated their career.”
— IDNZ
Learn what you will earn upon course completion
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Freelance Designer
You are a solution provider for your business. You define the product or service, planning the promotion, production, sales and budgeting for the business with the aim of making profit. You want to grow your business via digital platforms.
Salary & Profit: The sky is your limit!
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Experience Designer
You will be creating detailed paid media strategies/plans for search, display, video, and social platforms, finding real insights from data for client's customers and their behaviour.
$80,000 - $109,999 p.a. + commission -
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Product Owner
You’ll focus on digital & e-commerce site conversions, identify how the e-commerce user journey can be optimised and improved through SEO, CRO strategy, website user data, and landing pages, then project manage this work.
$85,000 - $100,000 p.a.
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Product Designer
You will create exceptional and innovative content and partnerships opportunities, work with all agency stakeholders and suppliers to create a media lead solution and production plan.
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CX Designer/Researcher
You are confident in bringing human centred design skills and critical thinking to support and define the customer experience., develop and implement strategies to enhance best practice customer outcomes for business.
$75,000.00 - $150,000.00 p.a. subject to experience
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UX Designer/Researcher
You will drive customer centric design principles and agile ways of working, identify customer problems and opportunities and design intuitive, seamless, delightful solutions, with user research, testing during a life cycle of a project.
$75,000 - $150,000 p.a. subject to experience
Start anytime, anywhere
FAQs
10 weeks for working with a real client project. Mentor will arrange a fixed time with the mentee, depending on your project chosen.
The mentoring sessions will be made available any one day during weekdays, anytime between 6pm-9pm, making this easy and feasible for most working adults. This can be discussed prior with the learners on special case.
All applicants must be educated to at least ‘A’ Level standard (or equivalent) and, be fluent in oral and written English language. Additionally, all applicants must fulfill at least one of the following criteria:
- Have professional work experience in any field
- Hold a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree
- Hold a Diploma with at least 2 years working experience.
Anyone with suitable work experience can apply for the certification programme. A background in a related discipline is not required; the aim of the certification is to enable you to learn everything you need to know at an industry level, so you can kick start your UX career.
You could be a recent graduate, or simply looking to change your career. The only prerequisite is that you have an interest in solving real problems for the user, and put user at the center of the design.
No, this is not a programming course, and you will not have to learn any coding. This certification focuses on the commercial aspect of UX.
The certification is assessed through on-going progression and a client pitching throughout the course.
Student can enrol anytime to gain access to the online learning portal and start studying.
Yes, we have flexi-payment options that are interest free of upto 12 months, made feasible with our partner Splitit.
This Agile Product Design
& Management Certification is for
Many that are in traditional graphic/web design careers wish to update their skillset
Anyone who seeks a career change in tech business
Those who have just graduated and want to hit the ground running and up their skills in UX & UI Design immediately
Entrepreneurs and small businesses owners who want to embrace proper UX in web and app development
Anyone looking to solve business problems by putting users at the center of the design
Running UX projects with developers through agile sprints
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Sarah Eddy
EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT TO MD
”Completing the IDNZ certification has assisted me to grow hugely within our business, expanding into a space where we had limited capability and knowledge. Now our organisation is benefitting from me having fresh, up-to-date IP which I can put into practice daily.” -
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Harrison Mudgway
NEW ZEALAND MTB NATIONAL
”With the ongoing support and weekly cloud meetings, I was able to complete this course with ease while working full time. The modules are easy to understand, helped a lot with my time management and ensure I didn’t miss important principles.” -
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Ying Watson
STAKEHOLDER MANAGER
”After 3 months of studying the digital marketing course every night (after putting the children to bed), I am so excited that I passed the exam and become a Certified Digital Marketing Expert. Thank you, Sai Constantine and Seann Lautner, for your generosity in mentoring.” -
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Rohan Satghare
RETAIL SALES & OPERATION
”While looking for options, I was looking for something where I can study online with mentor support at the same time working full time. I was looking for quality course material which will help me with my future job. IDNZ is offering both so I decided to go with IDNZ.” -
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Irene Fortoul
UX/UI DESIGNER / GRAPHIC DESIGNER
”It was an amazing journey, right from the start until the end. The course challenged me to think to a more human-centered design, by learning the agile way with a real project. Thank you so much to my mentor Seann Lautner, who was incredibly patient.”
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