Full day training

Master practical UX design and testing skills to create accessible, user-centred digital services within a government context.

This course is designed for anyone working in or with government who wants to improve the usability, accessibility, and effectiveness of digital services for the public. If you work outside government, explore our other courses.

This hands-on, interactive training will show you how to:

  • Structure information with clear information architecture and navigation
  • Design intuitive interactions that support diverse user needs
  • Apply visual design best practices for accessibility and clarity
  • Plan, conduct, and evaluate usability testing in a government context
  • Analyse findings and communicate evidence-based recommendations
  • Apply UX methods aligned with ISO standards and Digital Transformation Agency (DTA) guidelines

Who should attend:

  • CX managers and teams
  • Product managers and teams
  • Community engagement teams
  • Business analysis teams
  • Project managers
  • Marketing and communications teams
  • Website and digital teams

How you will learn:

Delivered by PeakXD, an Australian CX and service design consultancy with experience across government and private industry. You’ll build practical skills through hands-on activities and templates, with examples suited to public sector services.

You’ll build these skills through hands-on activities such as:

Curriculum

Our curriculum is aligned with global and Australian Government Digital Service Standards, ensuring your UX work is best on best practice. You'll learn human-centred design methods, tools, and frameworks based on our experience working on over 600 UX projects.

  1. Running a co-design workshop to engage stakeholders
  2. Home page design principles
  3. Sketching, prototyping and validated learning
  1. Classifying and organising information and schemas
  2. Conducting card sorting to understand users’ mental models
  3. Analysing card sort results and facilitating an IA design workshop
  1. 10 usability heuristics
  2. Interaction design patterns
  3. Visual presentation principles
  1. Key steps for usability testing
  2. Writing a usability test plan & tasks
  3. Recruiting participants and running a pilot
  4. IA & prototype testing tools
  5. Moderating test sessions
  6. Analysing and communicating results

🚀 Maximise your learning! This course builds on customer research skills you may already have or can learn in our CX Discovery & Research: Human-Centred Design course, which explores methods to understand the 'problem space' and opportunities for improving the customer experience.

Discounted tickets are available when you attend both courses.

Requirements

Entry requirements

  • A willingness to collaboratively learn and participate in an interactive design sprint

You will need

  • A laptop or computer with a camera

You do not need

  • Coding or visual design skills
  • To buy any specialist software
Tania Lang

Meet Tania... Trainer and Principal

  • 25+ years' experience as a user experience practitioner
  • Industry leader and presenter at UX conferences such as UX Australia Design Research
  • Delivered UX training to over 3,000 participants in Asia Pacific
  • Trained whole teams in UX such as ATO, Services Australia, CASA, ANZ, CommBank and several other government agencies and private companies
  • Founded PeakXD in 2003 - a leading Australian UX consultancy
  • Enjoys sharing UX stories from the trenches
  • Highly qualified: M. Bus. (Research) in User Behaviour, Grad. Cert. Human Factors, Grad. Cert in Arts (Marketing) and B.Sc.
MirandaFeb23

Meet Miranda... Trainer & Senior Consultant

  • 15 years' experience as a user experience practitioner
  • Led UX research, design and testing projects for organisations such as TAFE Queensland, Queensland Ambulance Services, Transport and Main Roads (Smart Ticketing CX rollout) and the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
  • Specialises in end-to-end UX—from discovery to design, prototyping, and testing
  • Passionate about uncovering deep user insights and usability issues to create better user experiences
  • Skilled in facilitating collaborative design workshops and stakeholder engagement

Our students work at

629

Finished client projects

3,717

Students trained

21

Years of running UX courses

218,643

Post-it notes (and counting)

Discount tickets

General admission $747 AUD

plus GST = $821.70 AUD

1 day course

Other courses - $677 AUD each

plus GST = $744.70 AUD

🚀 Maximise your learning! this course pairs well with our CX Discovery & Research: Human-Centred Design for Government course and our CX Ideation & Service Design: Human-Centred Design course to strengthen end-to-end delivery.

Registration now open

Live virtual

  • Date: 18 June 2026

  • Time: 9:00 am - 4:30 pm

  • Delivered virtually via Teams

Frequently Asked Questions

The methods and frameworks taught are applicable across industries, but this course is tailored for those working in or with government, as we highlight the preferred UX methods encouraged by the DTA and align terminology with the DTA's Digital Service Standard. If you work outside government, explore our other courses at www.peakxd.com.au/training.

Yes, you can. After you select your tickets, when you are asked to choose a payment type, you can choose 'Pay by invoice' and you will be emailed the invoice and your place at our course will be reserved.

You can then give this to your accounts area or manager to process the payment via EFT.

If your accounts area or manager prefers to pay the manual invoices via corporate credit card we can arrange that but credit card fees will apply as we use a separate secure payment gateway that charges ~1.9%.

Participants from a wide variety of roles and levels of experience have attended and have all given us good course ratings. If you are new to the field of Customer Experience (CX) or User Experience (UX), our trainer will look after you.

To ensure a great and interactive learning experience, our courses require a minimum number of participants. If minimum numbers are not achieved, we will offer you a full refund, a new date, or the option to attend the general version of the same course which we will tailor for government attendees.

If you are unable to attend, including for health reasons, please refer to our terms and conditions.

Yes, email us at any time to update registration information or change the name of attendees.