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What are IT design courses?

IT design is the study, design, development, implementation, support and management of computer-based information systems, particularly software applications and computer hardware. IT design courses are suitable for those people who want to work with or are already working with design and multimedia in their everyday lives. IT design courses can cover a variety of areas including:

  • Web design
  • User Experience (UX) design
  • User Inferace (UI) design
  • Specific programs such as:
    • Adobe products (e.g. Photoshop, Illustrator)
    • Flash
  • Graphic design

Through IT design courses, participants can learn about the different forms of media content (text, images, video, audio and animations) and how they can be combined in effective ways to develop user-focused products.

User Experience (UX) design

One area that IT design courses can focus on is User Experience (UX) design. This is the operation of improving customer satisfaction and loyalty through the improvement of product usability and ease-of-use. UX designers will look at products from the view of the user and identify aspects that can be improved to make the user experience better. Through IT design courses, participants will gain the skills and knowledge needed to analyse a product and suggest and implement changes to streamline the user's experience.

User Interface (UI) design

UI design is another area that IT design courses may cover. UI designers will look at the aesthetic elements from a visual design point of view, thinking both as a graphic designer and a UX designer to establish the layout and "feel" of a product using a variety of multimedia content types.

Multimedia - explore the opportunities

UX, UI and web design can be complemented with IT design courses in a variety of multimedia areas. Some main areas of interest include:

  • Adobe products (Photoshop, InDesign, Illustratgor, Premiere, Adobe Flash)
  • Dreamweaver (web design)
  • Programming languages (JavaScript, HTML, CSS)
  • Graphic design