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About These Projects

The best way to make the modules stick is to practise on real work. These six projects cover the whole design process: user research, information architecture, a mobile app prototype, a mini design system, usability testing, and an accessibility audit.

Each one comes with a video to follow along. Do the project with your own idea or product, then turn it into a case study for your portfolio. Pick the project that matches the module you've just finished and come back for the rest.

Projects

6 builds
01

Run a User Research Study

Plan and conduct five user interviews for a product idea of your choice, then synthesize the findings into an affinity map, a persona, and a problem statement.

02

Restructure a Website's Information Architecture

Audit an existing content-heavy site, run a card sort, and propose a new sitemap and navigation, validated with a quick tree test.

03

Design a Mobile App from Idea to Prototype

Go from sketches to low-fi wireframes to a clickable Figma prototype for a mobile app, covering the core user flow end to end.

04

Build a Mini Design System

Create colour, type, and spacing tokens plus a small component library (buttons, inputs, cards, navigation) in Figma, with usage notes for each component.

05

Usability Test and Iterate a Prototype

Test your prototype with five participants, rate the issues you find by severity, and ship a second version that fixes the most important ones.

06

Run an Accessibility Audit and Redesign

Audit a live product against WCAG, document the barriers you find, and redesign the worst offenders, then write it up as a portfolio case study.