Alison de Kruiff

Educator in UX research and design

I am the Course Director for the Bachelor of Design in the School of Design and Architecture at Swinburne University of Technology. My teaching experience is in user experience, HCI, design research and web design. I love bringing people along on the UX journey and I have taught students in user-experience research and design methods, processes and tools from first-year to PhD level. I consistently receive high student feedback scores, receiving over 90% in Swinburne’s regular student feedback surveys.

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Teaching Experience

Recent awards:

  • Curriculum Innovation Program grant recipient 2024. Portfolio literacy scaffolding in design. The team included: Dr Emma Fisher, Dr Emily Wright, Dr Adam Walker, Dr Alison de Kruiff.
  • Curriculum Innovation Program grant recipient 2023. Critical literacy for professional practice: Scaffolding reflexive practice skills. The team included: Dr Linus Tan, Dr Emily Wright, Professor Simone Taffe, Dr Jane Connory, Dr Alison de Kruiff.
  • SoDA Staff Award 2022: Innovation & Impact.

My expertise includes:

  • Assessment and rubric design,
  • Content design for Learning Management Systems,
  • Creating class workshops,
  • Curriculum design,
  • Face-to-face teaching,
  • Lesson planning,
  • One-to-one coaching and supervision,
  • Tutorial videos,
  • Online teaching and blended learning,

My teaching qualifications:

  • 2022: LEAP training for lended blearning, Swinburne University of technology,
  • 2015: Graduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching (Higher Education),
  • 2015: Adobe Train the Trainer—Creative Cloud,
  • 2014: e-Moderation online course with Swinburne University of Technology.

I have taught in the following areas:

  • Brand and identity design,
  • Designing for cultural groups,
  • Digital design,
  • Digital innovation projects.
  • Information design,
  • Interaction design,
  • Managing design,
  • Narrative and storyboarding,
  • User-centred design research,
  • UX capstone projects,
  • Web design,