Idean Academy
Idean Academy offers thorough and complete training courses, which introduce the students to the latest trends and methodology in user-centered design.
Rapid User Experience Coaching
Three modules tailored to give basic understanding of user centered design approach in real-life:
Module 1: Basics of user centered service- and concept creation (processes, terminology, project management)
Module 2: Practical tools to create user centered and usable concept (processes, practices, tools, terminology)
Module 3: Innovations and creativity as a source of user centered concept creation (examples, tools, processes, management of creative talent)
All modules include concrete examples, real-life cases and practical tools for you and your organization.
Rapid User Experience Coaching package is suitable for 10-50 participants and it includes pre-coaching on-line questionnaire to explore real level of your team to help us to tailor our coaching to fit your need.
Price 9 900 euros + Vat 22%
Including all participants, does not include actual expenses.
Our coaching sessions are bullet proof and highly appreciated among our customers.
For actual references and for more information, please contact us directly:
marjo.lampila@idean.com
User Experience modules
The teaching principles employed by Idean Academy include:
- learning by doing
- master and apprentice
- solution-based learning
Certificates
Each participant receives Idean Academy diplomas:
- After each module
- After passing the whole course (7 modules)
Credits from University
Professor Marko Nieminen (Helsinki University of Technology), Professors Kari-Jouko Räihä and Roope Raisamo (University of Tampere), Professor Turkka Keinonen (Helsinki University of Art and Design), and Professor Lily Diaz (Helsinki University of Art and Design) and Idean Academy have agreed to support students of their respective Universities by giving credits for the participants when passing Idean Academy modules. The credits are given individually; contact the professors to negotiate about them.
Module 1: User research
Learn why to study users, what exactly to study, how to conduct the studies,
and how to benefit from the results.
How you will benefit from this training
You will learn what kinds of things to study about users
You will learn to choose right methods to study users
You will learn to analyse user data
You will learn to transfer gathered user data into formats that best serve design
Course outline
Part 1: Why to study users?
Part 2: Qualitative user research methods
Part 3: Quantitative user research methods
Part 4:Analysing user research data
Part 5: Reporting user data in order to inform design
Admission requirements
Basic knowledge on user-centred design
Training highlights
Lectures by Idean expert
Case solving in groups
Group project coached by Idean expert
Course assessment
Take-home assignments focusing on solving real-life cases
Group project
Master trainer
Idean senior expert
Course fee 1 900 euros (+VAT) for the whole module (four days).
Minor changes to the course outline are possible.
Module 2: Designing product or service concepts
In order to create innovative concepts, you need to understand what motivates people to interact with your concept idea, how they want to interact with it, what are the requirements raised by the context of use, and how all these needs change along time.
How you will benefit from this training
You will learn to discuss and think on abstract level user experience
You will learn the basic user-centred design steps from design brief to concept definition
You will learn how to work together with other professional from different disciplines in order to create innovative product or service concepts
You will learn how to work together with users in creating innovative product or service concepts
You learn how to sell your product or service concept to decision makers
Course outline
Part 1: Thinking and talking about user experience
Part 2: User-centred Product Concept Design
Part 3: User-centred Service Concept Design
Part 4: Facing Interdisciplinary communication
Part 5: Working with users
Part 6: Presenting your service/product concept to decision makers
Admission requirements
Basic knowledge on user-centred design
Training highlights
Lectures by Idean expert
Group exercise with entertaining drama technique
Group project coached by Idean expert
Course assessment
Take-home assignments focusing on solving real-life cases
Group project
Master trainer
Idean senior expert
Course fee 1 900 euros (+VAT) for the whole module (four days).
Minor changes to the course outline are possible.
Module 3: User-centred UI Design
Mastering user-centred UI design requires a thorough understanding of UI design components, as well as established and proven methods and practices.
How you will benefit from this training
You will learn to create human centred UI solutions
You will gather deep understanding of the UI design components
You will learn practical and concrete working methods
You will learn how to utilize information from different sources in the UI design
You will learn make quick prototypes and validate them in the different phases
You will learn how to create and utilize use cases in UI design in order to focusing your actions
Course outline
Part 1:User-Centred UI Design Process
Part 2: Taking technological requirements into account
Part 3: Use cases
Part 4: Taking visual style into account
Part 5: Introducing main UI components in web and mobile domains
Part 5: Wire frames with visual look
Part 6: Prototyping
Part 7: Testing with users
Part 8: Specification documentation
Admission requirements
Basic knowledge on user-centred design
Training highlights
Lctures by Idean expert
Group project coached by Idean expert
Course assessment
Take-home assignments focusing on solving real-life cases
Group project
Master trainer
Idean senior expert
Course fee 1 900 euros (+VAT) for the whole module (four days).
Minor changes to the course outline are possible.
Module 4: Co-creation
Innovative design needs innovative techniques, and often you benefit the most from the participation of each stakeholder.
How you will benefit from this training
You will learn to work with users in innovative way
You will learn the principles how to moderate creative workshops for users and clients
You will learn how to analyze the results of creative workshops
You will learn how to generate ideas with users in the field and how to analyze the results
You will learn how to transfer co-creation session results into design
Course outline
Part 1: Philosophy of co-creation
Part 2: CARDS
Part 3: PICTIVE
Part 4: PlayMobile
Part 5: Moving with Magic thing
Part 5: Drama techniques
Part 6: LivinLabs and other field testing techniques
Admission requirements
Basic knowledge on user-centred design
Training highlights
Lectures by Idean expert
Everyday groups session where participants can try out co-creation techniques
Course assessment
Take-home assignments focusing on solving real-life cases
Group project
Master trainer
Idean senior expert
Course fee 1 900 euros (+VAT) for the whole module (four days).
Minor changes to the course outline are possible.
Module 5: Creating strategic UE knowledge
User experience information and knowledge is not used solely for the benefit of users, but for business decisions as well.
How you will benefit from this training
You will learn what is important for decision makers from UE point of view
You will learn to create/require user-centred information for decision making
You will learn to compare your design with competitors’ designs
You will learn to measure UE
Course outline
Part 1: What is important for decision making
Part 2: Ways of presenting UE information for decision making
Part 3: UE benchmarking
Part 4: Measuring UE
Admission requirements
Advanced knowledge on user-centred design and user experience
Training highlights
Lectures by Idean expert
Group project coached by Idean expert
Course assessment
Take-home assignments focusing on solving real-life cases
Group project
Master trainer
Idean senior expert
Course fee 1 900 euros (+VAT) for the whole module (four days).
Minor changes to the course outline are possible.
Module 6: Managing UE projects
Experience from multidisciplinary projects gives insight over what to take into account in managing UE projects.
How you will benefit from this training
You will learn what take into account in managing UE projects
You will learn how to buy UE services from subcontractor
You will learn what are critical points in UE projects from decision making point of view
Course outline
Part 1: Roles in UE projects
Part 2: Practical tips for ensuring UE approach in multidisciplinary projects
Part 3: How to evaluate UE subcontractor before making the deal
Part 4: How to inform UE subcontractor in the beginning of the project
Part 5: critical decision making points in UE projects
Admission requirements
Advanced knowledge on user-centred design and user experience
Training highlights
Lectures by Idean expert
Group project coached by Idean expert
Course assessment
Take-home assignments focusing on solving real-life cases
Group project
Master trainer
Idean senior expert
Course fee 1 900 euros (+VAT) for the whole module (four days).
Minor changes to the course outline are possible.
Module 7: Holistic concept design (group project)
How you will benefit from this training
You will learn what how to solve the entire problem from the concept planning stage to the design of new products or services
You will learn to sell your created user experience platform to decision makers
You will learn how to extract strategic information from holistic concept creation process
Course outline
Part 1: Holistic approach – the whole process
Part 2: Examples of design briefs in holistic approach
Part 3: Strategic information in holistic approach
Admission requirements
Advanced knowledge on user-centred design and user experience
Training highlights
Lectures by Idean expert
Group project coached by Idean expert
Course assessment
Group project
Master trainer
Idean senior expert
Course fee 1 900 euros (+VAT) for the whole module (four days).
Minor changes to the course outline are possible.
