KSBs

Knowledge

K1: The broad range of creative processes involved in creative design, and the importance of being aware of all the principal design disciplines including the different perspectives, approaches or schools of thought and theories that underpin them. Back to Duty

K2: The broad range of industry standard creative digital design tools and methods, their strengths and weaknesses and how to apply them. Back to Duty

K3: How to produce and maintain a portfolio of creative digital work. Back to Duty

K4: The audio, visual and verbal conventions through which sounds, images and words take meaning when creating design concepts for online and non-screen based services and installations. Back to Duty

K5: Contemporary audio, video and film technologies, including motion graphics and voice control systems and how to apply them as part of the digital media authoring process. Back to Duty

K6: How to present compelling pitches and presentations of creative digital design proposals. Back to Duty

K7: How to interpret and work to a design brief to deliver creative digital design solutions. Back to Duty

K8: How to critically analyse, interpret and evaluate complex information and concepts for creative digital design to deliver compelling creative digital designs that achieve a determined business outcome. Back to Duty

K9: The fundamental concepts of digital design/user interface design using front end frameworks and contemporary digital technologies for different digital media platforms. Back to Duty

K10: How to design responsive user centred solutions, including the technical opportunities and restrictions afforded by different platforms, the impact of design on performance and interaction design across a range of media platforms. Back to Duty

K11: The fundamentals of user experience and user research, including user personas: needs, wants, pains, prior experiences, user-centric design, customer journeys, calls to action, information architecture and navigation, site flow and information foraging: using wireframes to prototype user journeys. Back to Duty

K12: The fundamentals of different digital platform applications including the principles of mobile first design; including when it is, and isn't, relevant, and for multiple responsive breakpoints. Back to Duty

K13: The legal, ethical, regulatory, accessibility and governance frameworks which affect the development of creative design artefacts and applications and how to apply them. Back to Duty

K14: Contemporary methodologies such as agile and open innovation and how to apply them. Back to Duty

K15: The definition and fundamentals of branding; brand strength and positivity, the attributes of effective brands (excellent, different, compelling, authentic), being aware of brand meanings and values, effective brand positioning, visual tone, messaging, editorial voice and brand articulation. Back to Duty

K16: How to keep up to date with emerging platforms, environments and technologies. Back to Duty

K17: How to work with data and apply the creative digital approaches to represent complex data. Back to Duty

K18: The key features of the main UK laws, including Data Protection Act and General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the opportunities and constraints offered by data and what is feasible / needed for the current project / task. Back to Duty

K19: How to undertake real world 3D digital capture and process 3D data. Back to Duty

K20: The principles, controls and workflow inherent in building, texturing, animating and rendering 3D models, including XYZ Space, scaling and transforms, and the range of uses in the real world (e.g. Architecture, Construction, Games, Immersive, Automotive, Aerospace, Medical, Space etc.). Back to Duty

K21: The fundamentals, origins, application and potential of contemporary immersive technologies, such as AR (Augmented Reality), VR (Virtual Reality and XR (Mixed Reality), including psychology aspects of 3D environments, and the uses in the real world (including Internet of Things, Architecture, Construction, Games, Retail,Automotive,Aerospace, Medical etc.). Back to Duty

Skills

S1: Apply creative design processes to all creative digital development projects, including online services and installations and non-screen-based media, producing designs compelling to customers / users and to leverage the multitude of digital touch points including, but limited to; mobile, tablet, laptop, desktop, wearable, consoles and cars. Back to Duty

S2: Create designs using industry standard methods; Typography, Digital Art, Video and Special Effects, Rendering, Animation, 3D Graphics and Digital Photography. Back to Duty

S3: Create eye-catching creative design concepts and prototypes for presentation to clients using industry standard tools and advanced methods to address design problems set by clients. Back to Duty

S4: Create 'production' ready digital media assets including, but not limited to designs, style guides, animations, videos, story boards, images, audio to achieve a determined business outcome. Back to Duty

S5: Select, refine, adapt and apply industry standard contemporary creative digital design technologies, and working with data to develop creative design solutions. Apply and leverage data e.g. personalisation, behavioural, location, weather, in design concepts and solutions. Back to Duty

S6: Communicate design concepts and solutions to team members, designers, brand managers, product leads, marketing directors, commercial and sales in a strong and compelling manner, evaluating the outputs and methods used and their implications. Back to Duty

S7: Use design concept digital art to deliver creative design sales pitches to clients. Back to Duty

S8: Brief and work with third parties such as photographers, model makers, agencies and data professionals. Back to Duty

S9: Produce and maintain a portfolio of creative digital work. Back to Duty

S10: Keep abreast of industry developments, creative trends and innovations, knowing what’s emerging, and when and when to act to make cost effective use of new and emerging tools and technologies. Back to Duty

S11: Input into market/user research and UX briefs and work with their outputs. Back to Duty

S12: Collaborate between team members, clients and working with a range of stakeholders including market researchers, user experience professionals, user researchers, developers, photographers, model makers, brand managers, product leads, marketing directors, commercial, sales and communication specialists. Back to Duty

S13: Review and build accessibility requirements into all interactive creative digital media solutions. Back to Duty

S14: Work effectively both individually and collaboratively as part of a multidisciplinary team, with methodologies such as agile, building and maintaining positive relationships with team members, clients and other stakeholders. Back to Duty

S15: Lead and manage end to end creative digital design projects in line with governance policies, meeting deadlines and managing client expectations for different environments, including agile. Back to Duty

S16: Deliver well-designed, high quality creative digital solutions including prototyping skills within organisational brand guidelines. Back to Duty

S17: Design interactive artefacts using industry standard immersive technology techniques. Back to Duty

S18: Be able to plan and undertake own development and life-long learning to keep abreast of emerging technologies and techniques to review how these are best. Back to Duty

Behaviours

B1: A passion for creating content for creative and digital media. Back to Duty

B2: A strong work ethic and commitment to meet the standards required. Back to Duty

B3: Support for others in developing an appropriate balance of leadership and technical skills. Back to Duty

B4: Recognition and compliance with equality and diversity in the workplace. Back to Duty

B5: Demonstrates resilience, accountability and flexibility especially when managing difficult situations. Back to Duty

Qualifications

English and Maths

Apprentices without level 2 English and maths will need to achieve this level prior to taking the End-Point Assessment. For those with an education, health and care plan or a legacy statement, the apprenticeship’s English and maths minimum requirement is Entry Level 3. A British Sign Language (BSL) qualification is an alternative to the English qualification for those whose primary language is BSL.

Other mandatory qualifications

BA (Hons) or BSc (Hons) in Creative Digital Design BA

Level: 6 (non-integrated degree)

Additional details

Occupational Level:

6

Duration (months):

36

Review

This apprenticeship standard will be reviewed after three years