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Equity Access

Equity Access

Thank you for your interest in our courses

Thank you for your interest in our courses.
The Equity Access discount is currently 15%.
Please note that any discount is based on the full price and, therefore, may be less than a seasonal promotional discount offered to everyone.

Before applying

1. Check your eligibility

As a sole-trader, the Lab operates on a lean budget, so please respect that this financial support can only be offered to students who are:

  • People living within an economy greatly unequal to Australia’s
  • People experiencing long-term financial hardship

2. Consider any other existing options:

Our instalments option—Pay in 4 interest-free payments using PayPal at checkout

Self-funding—To fund the course yourself, can you save up the fee or ask your family?

Ask your employer—Plenty of workplaces support professional learning, and if there’s no official budget in place, it’s still worth asking—an email is often all it takes. Copy the text below into an email and fill in the [information]:

Hi [Manager’s Name],
I’ve come across a course I’d really like to take: Sustainable UX/UI Design. It’s an on-demand online program that explores how to create low-energy, low-carbon digital products, while also building in sustainable and inclusive features for websites, apps, online stores, and more.
The course costs AUD $[Add course price] and is taught by Damien Lutz—a senior UX/UI designer with 12+ years’ experience and founder of Life-centred Design Lab.
The course is very hands-on, with strategies and tools I can apply directly to our projects. I believe it could help us design in ways that both improve user experience and support our sustainability goals.
Here’s the link: [Add course link here].
Would it be possible to expense this?
P.S. It might also be valuable for other team members—worth considering if we’d like to make it available more broadly.

 

To apply for Equity Access

If, after exploring the above options, you believe you have a genuine case for requesting Equity Access, please apply using the following form.

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Life-centred design aligns designers and businesses with global goals, and gives them the skills to respond to today’s wicked problems in practical and measurable ways.

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LCD Lab aims to be low-carbon, inclusive, and regenerative

 

This site's hosting is green

This website runs on green hosting - verified by thegreenwebfoundation.org

Energy used by our web hosting servers is offset by 3 times as much renewable energy returned to the grid.

Green Host Your Site↗

We're planting trees!
The number in the site's top bar shows how many we've planted

To regenerate trees used to make our books, we donate a percentage of printed book sales to onetreeplanted.org.

Plant trees—donate to onetreeplanted.org↗

Page CO2 emissions
Shown for high-traffic pages only

Sustainable web strategies are used to reduce page load emissions.
The current industry standard is 0.8g/page view—all lifecentred.design pages aim to be less than the standard

Page accessibility rating
Shown for high-traffic pages only

Pages are designed for accessible use and rated out of 100

Read about our commitments

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LCD Lab aims to be low-carbon, inclusive, and regenerative

 

This site's hosting is green

This website runs on green hosting - verified by thegreenwebfoundation.org
Energy used by the web hosting servers is offset by 3 times as much renewable energy returned to the grid

Green Host Your Site↗

We're planting trees!
The number in the site's top bar shows how many we've planted

To regenerate trees used to make our books, we donate a percentage of printed book sales to onetreeplanted.org↗

Page CO2 emissions
Shown for high-traffic pages only

Sustainable web strategies are used to reduce page load emissions.
The current industry standard is 0.8g/page view—all lifecentred.design pages aim to be less than the standard

Page accessibility rating
Shown for high-traffic pages only

Pages are designed for accessible use and rated out of 100

More about our commitments

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LCD Lab aims to be low-carbon, inclusive, and regenerative

 

This site's hosting is green

This website runs on green hosting - verified by thegreenwebfoundation.org

Energy used by our web hosting servers is offset by 3 times as much renewable energy returned to the grid.

Green Host Your Site↗

We're planting trees!
The number in the site's top bar shows how many we've planted

To regenerate trees used to make our books, we donate a percentage of printed book sales to onetreeplanted.org.

Plant trees—donate to onetreeplanted.org↗

Page CO2 emissions
Shown for high-traffic pages only

Sustainable web strategies are used to reduce page load emissions.
The current industry standard is 0.8g/page view—all lifecentred.design pages aim to be less than the standard

Page accessibility rating
Shown for high-traffic pages only

Pages are designed for accessible use and rated out of 100

Read about our commitments

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