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design a user interface for a digital system (AC9TDI6P03)

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  • designing a user interface on paper or using digital tools, for example drawing the designed layout of the landing page of an app to order lunches from the school canteen
  • designing a user interface to address an identified need, for example including customisable font size and colour contrast to help users who are visually impaired
  • modelling how user interfaces allow people from different cultures and language backgrounds to access information, for example using consistent symbols to represent common actions such as copy, paste and save
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