Discovery & User Research
Full day in-person training
Want to understand your users and design better customer experiences?
Join PeakXD’s Discovery & user research course and gain the skills to plan, conduct, and document user research that aligns with the Australian Government Digital Service Standard and international UX best practices.
This hands-on training will help you uncover real user needs, build empathy, and create evidence-based solutions.
✅ How to plan and conduct effective user research
✅ Best practices for documenting insights to build empathy and influence decision-making
✅ Techniques to uncover user needs and pain points for evidence-based design
Delivered by PeakXD—Australia’s leading UX and service design consultancy, this course combines real-world case studies, expert facilitation, and interactive exercises so you can apply what you learn immediately.
Hands-on activities include:
1️⃣ Affinity diagramming
2️⃣ Conducting low cost research
3️⃣ Planning research
4️⃣ Conducting user interviews
5️⃣ Designing personas
6️⃣ Writing user stories
7️⃣ Customer journey mapping
8️⃣ Writing How Might We (HMW) statements
Curriculum
Our curriculum aligns with International UX standards, ensuring your research follow best practices for usability, accessibility, and user-centred design.
🚀 Continue your learning! We highly recommend attending our Service design course and UX design & testing course over the next two days to deepen your skills.
Attend all 3 days to gain a complete end-to-end UX/CX design skillset.
Requirements
Meet Miranda... Senior UX designer & trainer
- 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
Discount tickets
General admission $747 AUD
plus GST = $821.70 AUD
1 day course
Attend 2 or 3 days - $677 AUD each
plus GST = $744.70 AUD
🚀 Maximise your learning! We highly recommend continuing with our Service design course and UX design & testing course in the following days to deepen your skills.
Attend all 3 days to gain a complete end-to-end UX/CX design skillset.