Client Projects
Build your UX Portfolio as you go with a real project – and feel good knowing you’re helping a not-for-profit organisation to improve the world through human centred design.
Oxfam Australia
Status: Open - join the project team
We have teamed up with Oxfam Australia so you can apply what you learn during the UX course on a real project for an international humanitarian organisation. Oxfam are a global movement of people working together to eliminate poverty by tackling inequality.
Open to everyone - there are no pre-requisites for this project. You will:
- Plan, conduct, analyse & synthesise robust user research.
- Create personas, user stories and customer journey maps based on research data.
- Design a new information architecture (IA) to 2 levels.
- Design high fidelity wireframe designs for high profile landing pages, and a form
- Conduct usability testing & iterate your designs
UX portfolio artefacts you will produce
Complete the program with a unique portfolio demonstrating not only your artefacts but also demonstrating the process you went through including:
- A high level current state evaluation of a website site with suspected problems and hypotheses
- A customer research plan, a persona & user stories
- Paper prototype for a new digital solution
- Design and run a remote card sort activity in Optimal Workshop
- A primary navigation menu (first level information architecture) for the project site
- An expert review, and a redesigned sketch or wireframe of a form
- An expert UX review of the site or app against usability heuristics and design guidelines
- Usability testing, including a plan, key test findings and recommendations
- Client presentation of findings
Work on a real-world project - Gain experience for your UX portfolio
Médecins Sans Frontières
Completed: 16 March 2022
We teamed up with Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) to offer you real-world experience for the UX Accelerator program from September 2020 to January 2022. Médecins Sans Frontières is an independent international medical humanitarian organisation that delivers emergency aid to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, healthcare exclusion and natural or man-made disasters.
Project outcomes:
36 students completed the various Médecins Sans Frontières projects and have a unique portfolio demonstrating their artifacts and the process they went through. See examples of the outstanding student work delivered by the UX Accelerator project team.
"Really appreciated all the great work the students put into their presentations, it was great to see the different approaches and gave us a lot to think about!
It’s been really helpful to see all the insight the PeakXD students have given us" (Client rep)
RSL Art Union
Completed : 28 September 2020
We teamed up with RSL Art Union to offer real-world experience during the online UX program. Through their Prize Home Lottery, the RSL Art Union delivers critical funding that supports returned veterans from recent conflict, as well as those on the long journey to recovery from past deployments, in the form counselling, financial aid, accommodation, rehabilitation and much more.
Project outcomes
24 students completed the RSL Art Union Project.
“Peak XD's UX Accelerator Program has been a great experience. Coming into the UX field as a novice, I now feel far more knowledgeable, skilled and confident. Working on a real life project, from the start to end has been an invaluable and fun experience, helping to cement the theory and practical skills required."
Leonie W (student)
Two Green Threads
Completed: 17 February 2020
We teamed up with Two Green Threads to offer real world experience for the second intake of the UX Accelerator Program
UX portfolio artefacts designed by students:
- A high level current state evaluation of a website site with suspected problems and hypotheses
- A customer research plan, a persona & user stories
- A new digital solution - concept design
- Design and run a remote card sort activity in Optimal Workshop
- A primary navigation menu (first level information architecture) for the project site
- An expert review, and a redesigned sketch or wireframe of a form
- An expert UX review of the site or app against usability heuristics and design guidelines
- Usability testing, including a plan, key test findings and recommendations
- Client presentation of findings
Surf Life Saving Foundation
Completed: 16 January 2020
We teamed up with Surf Life Saving Foundation to offer real world experience for students participating in the UX Accelerator Program from September 2019 - January 2020
Project outcomes
The project was completed in January 2020 with Surf Lifesaving Foundation being very happy with the student outcomes.
"Thanks so much for having Surf Lifesaving as a case study. Both myself and Mel thoroughly enjoyed the presentations and insights [from the UX Accelerator Team] . . . the presentations have been particularly valuable to both of us as newly appointed members of the Surf Lifesaving Foundation.
We are truly impressed with the work that Veronica has done and it reflects extremely well on the in-depth and practical approach to UX that you provide the students at PeakXD . . . there are some really great suggestions, insights and prototypes created off the back of her research. Not to mention the quick wins that we could implement!!!"
Success Stories
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