Release 

Comments 

Release 1

This version first released with CUA Creative Arts and Culture Training Package version 2.0.

ELEMENT 

PERFORMANCE CRITERIA 

Elements describe the essential outcomes.

Performance criteria describe the performance needed to demonstrate achievement of the element.

1. Determine project requirements

1.1 Analyse project brief to identify purpose of, and target audience for, digital applications

1.2 Consult with clients or relevant personnel to clarify project requirements, including project timelines

1.3 Identify target audience characteristics and determine how these influence design

1.4 Identify content and application functions and how these are accessed, searched and delivered

2. Research digital applications

2.1 Research digital applications and analyse how these meet audience, function and content requirements

2.2 Identify issues relating to delivery platform and technical and industry standards, and determine how these may affect digital application options

2.3 Consult relevant personnel to confirm all digital application options are considered

2.4 Select applications that will meet creative, production and technical requirements

3. Draft design specifications

3.1 Design architecture of digital application to show interrelationship of various components and screens

3.2 Specify interactive features, functionality and navigation

3.3 Identify content and data displays, and specify how these will be logically structured and integrated into and/or generated in the digital application

3.4 Specify levels of access permissions as required

3.5 Specify media assets as required

3.6 Specify user interfaces, taking screen sizes into account

3.7 Specify report generation if required

3.8 Specify production requirements, including appropriate testing strategies

3.9 Produce draft design specifications and instructions for design and development teams to use

4. Review and confirm design specifications

4.1 Use a range of techniques to present draft design specifications, and discuss with client

4.2 Review designs against creative and technical requirements, and client and audience needs

4.3 Adjust designs as necessary after discussions with relevant personnel

4.4 Clarify ownership of intellectual property to comply with production and organisational requirements

4.5 Confirm, with client, acceptance of design specifications, including deliverables, milestones and timelines

Skill 

Performance 

Criteria 

Description 

Reading

1.1, 1.3, 1.4, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1-3.9, 4.4

• Selects and applies a range of reading strategies to interpret texts

Writing

3.1-3.9

• Uses text, graphic diagrammatic and visual formats to draft and confirm specifications and instructions

Oral Communication

1.2, 2.3, 4.1, 4.5

• Participates effectively in spoken interactions using language and features appropriate to the audience
• Uses questioning and listening strategies to confirm project requirements and elicit relevant feedback

Navigate the world of work

4.4

• Understands and adheres to organisational and legislative requirements

Interact with others

1.2, 2.3, 4.1, 4.5

• Collaborates with others throughout all stages of the design process
• Selects and uses appropriate practices and protocols to communicate with a range of audiences

Get the work done

1.1-1.4, 2.1-2.4, 3.1-3.6, 3.8, 3.9, 4.1-4.5

• Takes responsibility for planning, organising and implementing tasks required to complete project, coordinating with others when required
• Analyses information to make decisions that affect the entire project
• Uses digital tools to specify architecture, navigation and content to meet project brief specifications

Code and title  

current version 

Code and title 

previous version 

Comments 

Equivalence status 

CUADIG502 Design digital applications

CUFDIG502A Design web environments

Updated to meet Standards for Training Packages. Title changed. Minor edits to performance criteria.

Equivalent unit

Release 

Comments 

Release 1

This version first released with CUA Creative Arts and Culture Training Package version 2.0.