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James de Vries uses the lens of his career in editorial and strategic design to introduce the principles and practices needed to produce persuasive, effective and ethical charts, data visualisations, diagrams and infographics.
Short, informal lectures and discussion groups throughout the course will introduce core concepts. Hands-on workshops will lead you through practical exercises to build your confidence when implementing these fundamental design ideas and techniques in your work.
This course will enable you to think more critically and creatively about what goes into making good (and bad) visualisations, how to create and refine the most appropriate and effective visualisations for your task and how to present them in a powerful and persuasive way.
The course will enable you to harness the power of design using everyday tools and software with which you are familiar. Its focus is on the effective application of design principles - data-science programming and software training are not covered in the course content.
This course runs over two days face-to-face at the UTS Campus, with follow up sessions provided online. Online resources and self-paced tasks will be provided using the UTS Canvas e-learning portal. Course content includes:
Day one (session one) – Introduction:
Day one (session two) - It’s all about context:
Day one (session three) - Storytelling with charts:
Day two (session one) - Design principles for graphics:
Day two (session two) - Managing colour:
Day two (session three) - Using charts to find insight and to persuade:
Day two (session four) - Your challenge:
Day three (online):
Day four - Recap summary of key insights:
By completing this course, you will learn fundamental design and storytelling principles to produce more effective, ethical and persuasive charts and infographics.
This microcredential aligns with the 3-credit point subject, The Power of Design: to Make Impactful Charts and Infographics (85842), in the following postgraduate offering: Master of Design (C04243). This microcredential may qualify for recognition of prior learning at this and other institutions.
This course is for non-designers, who none-the-less use design and design visualisations in their work and communications. The course will benefit those in the fields of:
By completing this course you’ll have a better understanding of how to:
This course will be taught primarily through face-to-face learning and hands-on workshops. Pre-learning and follow up feedback sessions will take place remotely, over Zoom. Supplementary material will be available through UTS Canvas.
Assessment will be pass/fail
Please bring a pen, paper and laptop computer.
Full price:
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Discounts:
Please email DABshortcourses@uts.edu.au with your expression of interest. Once verified, you will be supplied with a voucher code to apply to your cart.
Please note that discounts cannot be combined. A limit of one discount applies per person per course session.
Morning and afternoon tea are provided for this course. If you have any dietary requirements, please email Aaron.Seymour@uts.edu.au.
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START DATE |
26 June |
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MODE |
Blended |
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DURATION |
4 days |
James is founder and director of de Luxe & Associates, an Australian-based strategic design consultancy that has worked with global media and editorial clients on design and publishing strategy projects. James was Senior Director, Strategy, at Second Road—an Accenture strategy company employing design methods to build a strategic vision and reimagine value-creation for clients across all enterprise sectors.
From 2011 to the end of 2017, James worked in the USA as Creative Director at Harvard Business Review. This role centred around building design quality and harnessing design to transform the legendary brand from a traditional heritage business to a dynamic digital media organisation, resulting in significant increases in sales, subscribers and commercial revenue.
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