Full day training

This practical, hands-on course builds confidence in planning and running discovery research in government contexts - where decisions need to be clear, defensible and considerate of diverse community needs. You’ll learn approaches you can apply to services, programs and digital experiences.

After this course, you will be able to:

  • Confidently plan a discovery approach for a service, program or initiative in a government setting
  • Conduct effective interviews to uncover needs, pain points, risks and expectations (including with people under stress or with low digital confidence)
  • Synthesise research into actionable insights that support prioritisation, service improvements and clear recommendations
  • Communicate outcomes in ways that stand up to scrutiny and support stakeholder alignment

Who should attend:

  • Service delivery and service design teams
  • Digital and web teams (public-facing services)
  • CX, UX and research practitioners
  • Policy and program teams (who need user evidence)
  • Business analysts and continuous improvement teams
  • Communications and stakeholder engagement teams
  • Project managers and transformation 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 ISO 9241 standards on human-centred design and grounded in practical delivery. You’ll learn methods, tools and frameworks you can apply to government services, programs and digital experiences - supported by clear documentation and defensible outputs.

  1. What is human-centred design, CX design and UX design?
  2. Australian Government Digital Service Standard v2.0 criteria
  3. Service design and delivery process
  4. Benefits of human-centred design
  5. Inclusive design and Digital Inclusion Standard criteria
  6. Introducing the 'Double diamond' (problem space and solution space)
  1. Kicking off your project
  2. Understanding business objectives
  3. Engaging challenging stakeholders and breaking down silos
  1. Designing research for inclusivity
  2. Low-cost research methods
  3. Traditional CX research methods
  4. Qualitative vs Quantitative and Behavioural vs Opinion-based research methods
  5. How to be a better researcher to gain accurate insights
  1. Synthesising research data: tools and methods
  2. Research artefacts to build empathy: personas, empathy maps, and user/job stories
  3. Customer journey mapping
  1. Understand how to reframe the problem based on customer research to wrap up the 'Problem space'
  2. Create 'How might we?' statements and prepare for 'Solution space' ideation

🚀 Maximise your learning! this course equips you to understand needs and risks across public-facing services. It pairs well with our CX Ideation and Service Design course and our UX Design & Testing: Human-Centred Design for Government course to strengthen end-to-end delivery.

Requirements

Entry requirements

  • A willingness to collaboratively learn.

You will need

  • Laptop or computer

You do not need

  • Presentation skills
  • Confidence or experience with running group sessions
  • Experience in UX, CX or any related field

Your Training Team

Mentors with 15+ years experience

629

Finished client projects

3,717

Students trained

21

Years of running UX courses

218,643

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Discount tickets

General admission $747 AUD

plus GST = $821.70 AUD

1 day course

Subsequent days - $677 AUD each

plus GST = $744.70 AUD

🚀 Maximise your learning! this course equips you to understand needs and risks across public-facing services. It pairs well with our CX Ideation and Service Design course and our UX Design & Testing: Human-Centred Design for Government course to strengthen end-to-end delivery.

Registration now open

Live virtual

  • Date: 16 June 2026

  • Time: 9:00am - 4:30pm

  • 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) and research, 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.