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WSQ Figma Fundamentals for Aspiring UI/UX Designers

Course Information

  • Sessions 2 days
  • Duration 16 hrs
  • Level Beginner
  • Assessment 2 hrs

Venue

12 Woodlands Square #07-85/86/87 Woods Square Tower 1, Singapore 737715. 5 mins walk from Woodlands (NS9) MRT station.

The venue is disabled-friendly.

Skills Framework

TSC Title
User Interface and User Experience (UI/UX) Optimisation
TSC Code
RET-DIO-4002-1.1 TSC

Learning Outcomes

By end of the course, learners should be able to:

  • LO1: Integrate UI and UX strategies into Figma designs that align with business objectives and user needs.
  • LO2: Lead Figma projects to create UI/UX design ensuring alignment with organizational goals and visual identity.
  • LO3: Analyze customer behaviors and insights, translating them into intuitive and effective UI/UX designs.
  • LO4: Evaluate usability metrics and recommend design optimizations to enhance user experiences.
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Certification

  • Certificate of Completion from Tertiary Infotech - Upon meeting at least 75% attendance and passing the assessment(s), participants will receive a Certificate of Completion from Tertiary Infotech.
  • OpenCerts from SkillsFuture Singapore - After passing the assessment(s) and achieving at least 75% attendance, participants will receive a OpenCert (aka Statement of Achievement) from SkillsFuture Singapore, certifying that they have achieved the Competency Standard(s) in the above Skills Framework.

WSQ - Figma Fundamentals for Aspiring UI/UX Designers

Course Code: TGS-2024045798
  • WSQ
  • SkillsFuture Credit
  • PSEA
  • UTAP
  • SFEC
  • Absentee Payroll
  • MCES

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What's This Course About

Dive into the world of UI/UX design with our Figma Fundamentals course tailored for aspiring designers. This course bridges the gap between theoretical knowledge and practical application, empowering participants to integrate UI and UX strategies into Figma designs that perfectly align with business objectives and user needs. You'll explore the fundamentals of UI/UX design, including understanding user expectations, identifying information flow, and the strategic goals of UI/UX. Get hands-on experience with Figma, starting from the basics of navigating the design file overview to advanced project creation techniques like applying auto layout, creating responsive buttons, and importing content from UI kits.

Advance your skill set by mastering prototyping with smart animations, organizing projects with layers, and designing with variables and conditional logic. The course also covers essential collaboration techniques, enabling you to work effectively with other designers and stakeholders, and concludes with best practices for exporting your final designs. By analyzing customer behaviors and insights, you'll learn to translate them into intuitive and effective UI/UX designs. Evaluate usability metrics to recommend design optimizations, ensuring your projects not only meet but exceed user expectations.

WSQ Funding

Full Fee $800.00 Before GST
GST $72.00 9% of fee
Baseline Nett $472.00 SG/PR age 21+ · 50% funded
MCES / SME Nett $312.00 SG age 40+ · 70% funded
SkillsFuture Enterprise Credit (SFEC)

Eligible Singapore-registered companies can tap on $10000 SFEC to cover out-of-pocket expenses.Click here to submit SkillsFuture Enterprise Credit

SkillsFuture Credit (SFC)

Eligible Singapore Citizens can use their SFC to offset course fee payable after funding but the $4,000 Additional SFC (Mid-Career Support) cannot be used. Click here for SkillsFuture Credit submission

UTAP

Eligible NTUC members can apply for 50% of the unfunded fee from UTAP, capped up to $250/year and for members aged 40 and above, capped up to $500/year. Click here to submit UTAP

PSEA

Eligible Singapore Citizens can use their PSEA funds to offset course fee payable after funding.

To check for Post-Secondary Education Account (PSEA) eligibility for this course, Visit SkillsFuture (course code: TGS-2024045798)
  • Scroll down to “Keyword Tags” to verify for PSEA eligibility.
  • If there is “PSEA” under keyword tags, the course is eligible for PSEA.

Once you are eligible for PSEA, please download and fill up the PSEA Withdrawal Form and email to us. 

Course FeeBefore Funding

$800.00 (GST-exclusive)
$872.00 (GST-inclusive)

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Additional Note

Please bring your own laptop for hands-on training. If you don't have laptop, we can provide spare laptop for training use.

Post-Course Support

  • We provide free consultation related to the subject matter after the course.
  • Please email your queries to enquiry@tertiaryinfotech.com and we will forward your queries to the subject matter experts.

Cancellation & Reschedule Policy

  • You can register your interest without upfront payment. There is no penalty for withdrawal of the course before the class commences.
  • We reserve the right to cancel or re-schedule the course due to unforeseen circumstances. If the course is cancelled, we will refund 100% for any paid amount.
  • Note the venue of the training is subject to changes due to availability of the classroom.

Course Details

Course Details

What You'll Learn

Topic 1: UI/UX Design Fundamental

  • Understand User Expectations and Identify User Needs
  • Identify Information Flow
  • Strategies and Goals of UI/UX
  • Getting Started with Figma
  • Figma design file overview

Topic 2: Project Creation

  • Creating project styles
  • Applying auto layout
  • Creating a responsive button
  • Creating a new file
  • Creating pages
  • Adding shapes and images
  • Hiding parts of content with a mask
  • Importing content from UI kits
  • Formatting text

Topic 3: Prototyping

  • An intro to prototyping
  • Organizing with layers
  • Designing with Variables and Conditional Logic
  • Prototyping with smart animations
  • Evaluate final prototypes

Topic 4: Collaborating, and Exporting

  • Working with other designers
  • Collaborating with stakeholders
  • Exporting files

Final Assessment

  • Written Assessment - Short Answer Questions (WA-SAQ)
  • Practical Performance (PP)

Assessment

  • Written Exam
  • Practical Exam

Course Info

Promotion Code

Promo or discount cannot be applied to WSQ courses

Minimum Entry Requirement

Knowledge and Skills

  • Able to operate using computer functions
  • Minimum 3 GCE ‘O’ Levels Passes including English or WPL Level 5 (Average of Reading, Listening, Speaking & Writing Scores)

Attitude

  • Positive Learning Attitude
  • Enthusiastic Learner

Experience

  • Minimum of 1 year of working experience.

Minimum Software/Hardware Requirement

Softtware: Windows / Mac

Hardware: Laptop

About Progressive Wage Model (PWM)

The Progressive Wage Model (PWM) helps to increase wages of workers through upgrading skills and improving productivity. 

Employers must ensure that their Singapore citizen and PR workers meet the PWM training requirements of attaining at least 1 Workforce Skills Qualification (WSQ) Statement of Attainment, out of the list of approved WSQ training modules.

For more information on PWM, please visit MOM site.

Funding Eligility Criteria

Individual Sponsored Trainee Employer Sponsored Trainee
  • Singapore Citizens or Singapore Permanent Residents aged 21 and above
  • From 1 October 2023, attendance-taking for SkillsFuture Singapore's (SSG) funded courses must be done digitally via the Singpass App. This applies to both physical and synchronous e-learning courses.​
  • Trainee must pass all prescribed tests / assessments and attain 100% competency.
  • We reserves the right to claw back the funded amount from trainee if he/she did not meet the eligibility criteria.
  • Singapore Citizens or Singapore Permanent Residents who are DIRECT EMPLOYEE of the sponsoring company.
  • From 1 October 2023, attendance-taking for SkillsFuture Singapore's (SSG) funded courses must be done digitally via the Singpass App. This applies to both physical and synchronous e-learning courses.​
  • Trainee must pass all prescribed tests / assessments and attain 100% competency.
  • We reserves the right to claw back the funded amount from the employer if trainee did not meet the eligibility criteria.

 SkillsFuture Credit: 

  • Eligible Singapore Citizens can use their SkillsFuture Credit to offset course fee payable after funding.

 PSEA:

  • To check for Post-Secondary Education Account (PSEA) eligibility, goto mySkillsFuture portal and search for this course code.
  • Scroll down to "Keyword Tags" to verify for PSEA eligibility.
  • If there is “PSEA” under keyword tags, the course is eligible for PSEA.  
  • And if there is no “PSEA” under keyword tags, the course is ineligible for PSEA. 
  • Not all courses are eligible for PSEA funding.

 Absentee Payroll (AP) Funding: 

  • $4.50 per hour, capped at $100,000 per enterprise per calendar year.
  • AP funding will be computed based on the actual number of training hours attended by the trainee.

 SFEC:

  • If the Training Provider has submitted an enrolment for course fee grant claim in Training Partners Gateway (TPGateway), SSG would be able to derive SFEC funding based on this record. There is no need for enterprise to submit any claim request and the SFEC claim will be automatically generated and disbursed.
  • Where there is no such record, eligible employers are required to submit an SFEC claim after course completion via the SFEC microsite.
  • SkillsFuture Enterprise Credit (SFEC) Microsite 

Appeal Process

  1. The candidate has the right to disagree with the assessment decision made by the assessor.
  2. When giving feedback to the candidate, the assessor must check with the candidate if he agrees with the assessment outcome.
  3. If the candidate agrees with the assessment outcome, the assessor & the candidate must sign the Assessment Summary Record.
  4. If the candidate disagrees with the assessment outcome, he/she should not sign in the Assessment Summary Record.
  5. If the candidate intends to appeal the decision, he/she should first discuss the matter with the assessor/assessment manager.
  6. If the candidate is still not satisfied with the decision, the candidate must notify the assessor of the decision to appeal. The assessor will reflect the candidate’s intention in the Feedback Section of the Assessment Summary Record.
  7. The assessor will notify the assessor manager about the candidate’s intention to lodge an appeal.
  8. The candidate must lodge the appeal within 7 days, giving reasons for appeal 
  9. The assessor can help the candidate with writing and lodging the appeal.
  10. he assessment manager will collect information from the candidate & assessor and give a final decision.
  11. A record of the appeal and any subsequent actions and findings will be made.
  12. An Assessment Appeal Panel will be formed to review and give a decision.
  13. The outcome of the appeal will be made known to the candidate within 2 weeks from the date the appeal was lodged.
  14. The decision of the Assessment Appeal Panel is final and no further appeal will be entertained.
  15. Please click the link below to fill up the Candidates Appeal Form.

Job Roles

Job Roles

  • UI Designer
  • UX Designer
  • Product Designer
  • Interaction Designer
  • Visual Designer
  • User Interface Developer
  • User Experience Researcher
  • UX Strategist
  • Figma Specialist
  • UI/UX Consultant
  • Digital Designer
  • Prototype Designer
  • UX Analyst
  • Information Architect
  • Usability Tester
  • Design Technologist
  • UI/UX Project Manager
  • Graphic Designer (UI/UX Focus)
  • Content Strategist (UI/UX)
  • Creative Director (UI/UX)

Trainers

Trainers

Dr. Mak Wai Keong

Dr. Mak Wai Keong has a Doctor of Education (EdD.) and has completed his Masters of Science (MSc) degree in Management of Technology in 2000 at the National University of Singapore. In 1994, he obtained his Bachelor of Science (Merit) in Chemistry and Mathematics from the National University of Singapore.

Upon graduation with a BSc degree, he started his career in the area of training and multimedia development, and set up a company in 1997 to focus on multimedia training development for the telecommunications and semi-conductor industries. Being passionate in research and training, and educating the youth, he then moved to the academic and research domains as a lecturer at Temasek and Ngee Ann Polytechnic. His research capacity started at SIM University as a Research Associate, and National Institute of Education (Centre for Research in Pedagogy and Practices (CRPP). He was able to apply his experience in Learning Technology areas at the Singapore Polytechnic and Yale-NUS College where he was the Associate Director for Educational Resources & Technology.

Dr. Mak last appointment was at the Institute for Adult Learning, Innovation Lab (iN.LAB) as the Senior Learning Innovator before starting out on his own. He curated 4 major programs for iN.LAB, namely InnovByte, InnovLogue, InnovJam and InnovPlus.

He is author and co-author of numerous international journal and conference papers. Currently, he is the Group CEO of Edtrix Group – comprises Edtrix Solutions Pte. Ltd., Edtrix Innovation Pte. Ltd., Edtrix Enterprise Pte. Lte. and SmartzWerkz Pte. Ltd. His work involves research and development in Learner (and Gamer) Profiling (a psychometric tool that purports one’s learning preference) through Block Chain, Artificial Intelligence (Data, Textual, Auditory and Video [DTAV] Analytics), Supervised, Unsupervised and Reinforcement Learning. He is also into Conscious and Unconscious Learning through Games. He is currently working on various AI projects with Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, GSK Singapore, as well as consultancy work with SIM GE and ITE College East. He has also extended his skills and knowledge in this area through various consultancy works. Edtrix Solutions is a reseller and distributor of iSpringSolutions software in Singapore

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