How does it work?
Experience Haus is a design education provider that runs courses for professionals who wish to pivot, upskill or refresh into creative roles. A core feature of our courses is that students are either paired individually or in groups to work on live design challenges. Along the way they will apply their learnings to create deliverables that will build up over time to solutions that answer the design challenge. Students can then add these projects to their portfolios in order to showcase their design skills.
Courses range from eight to twelve weeks long and new cohorts are scheduled to start regularly throughout the year. There is no cost for a business (of any size) to take part in this opportunity – we are simply looking for challenging briefs from a range of industries.
What makes a good design challenge?
Design wise – we are looking for challenges that include several user journeys, for example a booking flow, an e-commerce journey or completing a particular task. Ideally we also need a relatively easy to access target audience, or help from the business in getting access to the target audience.
If you are a startup struggling with traction, clear vision, or differentiation, this can make for a good Product Strategy and Management challenge. For more holistic challenges, it might be Service Design. And if you are looking to understand your potential base, then it could be a fit for our User Research course.