Graphic Design Transform is a three-month intensive full-time course created for university disruptor, Academy Xi. I was Lead LD on this end-to-end digital product design intended to rival more traditional tertiary options. I was given six months to research, assemble, and polish the project. In doing so, I succeeded in making the most software intensive Graphic Design short course on the market.
Throughout the course development, I took full responsibility for managing all timelines, stakeholder expectations, and contributors, ensuring a seamless and high-performing end-to-end product. This involved regular coordination with internal and external stakeholders, including product managers, subject matter experts, and the experience team. I ensured that all milestones were met within the six-month timeframe, leading weekly check-ins and providing detailed progress reports. The timeline was tight, so I employed agile methodologies to keep the project on track, adapting swiftly to changes while ensuring the end product exceeded expectations.
Throughout the course development, I took full responsibility for managing all timelines, stakeholder expectations, and contributors, ensuring a seamless and high-performing end-to-end product. This involved regular coordination with internal and external stakeholders, including product managers, subject matter experts, and the experience team. I ensured that all milestones were met within the six-month timeframe, leading weekly check-ins and providing detailed progress reports. The timeline was tight, so I employed agile methodologies to keep the project on track, adapting swiftly to changes while ensuring the end product exceeded expectations.
Just the stats:
Dev time: 6 months
Budget: AU $25K
Learner RRP: AU $11.5K
Collaborators: 1
External contractors (SMEs): 8
Internal stakeholders: 3
Launch: October 2022
Students: 60 approx.
Total sales revenue: $700,000 approx.
Customer-facing course outline brochure
The Transform courses at Academy Xi are the largest of their offerings. After completing an intensive full-time three months of coursework, students complete three months of an internship-like role with real world clients managed by the experience team. Finally, students have up to six months support with the outcomes team in gaining a role in their new speciality. Academy Xi are uniquely skilled at producing exceptional outcomes for their students, boasting a placement rate of 97%. These results are due to an extensive research scoping period including ongoing consultation with industry experts, designing unique learning frameworks informed by industry and hirer needs, employment, and skills data.
Course also available in-app for learning on the go
Sample of course experience
I designed the Graphic Design Transform course to be software intensive, with project work supporting graphic design theory content. With Human Centred Design principles applied throughout, the coursework consists of a mix of original written and multimedia assets, as well as high quality external examples. Assessment is cumulative and tailored to individual student goals, small projects completed for each module combines to form a final online artefact that demonstrates competency in Adobe Portfolio. Unlike many other courses of this size, my product went well beyond Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign - also covering After Effects, XD, HTML & CSS and touching on Premier, Procreate, Dimension, Mailchimp, Animate, Trello and Padlet.
Please find the full module overview here.
Module layout sample
Digital badge available on completion
Example of several views within course
