BSBDES401 Generate design solutions

Supersededtraining.gov.au: supersededEquivalent

The currency period for BSBDES401 ended on 14 April 2021 — 5 years ago. It names one replacement below, with the equivalence it declares for each.

Transition clockClosed to new enrolments

New enrolments are not permitted from 16 April 2022 — one year from the date the replacement was included on the National Register (s 14(1)(a)(i) of the National VET Regulator (Compliance Standards for NVR RTOs and Fit and Proper Person Requirements) Instrument 2025 (F2025L00355, in force 1 July 2025)), or from a later date if ASQA has approved otherwise for your organisation.

Learners already enrolled have no fixed deadline: they complete the product and are issued their AQF certification, or transfer to the replacement, in a timely manner (ASQA guidance, read live 25 August 2026).

The same date closes a second obligation: under s 7(2)(c) of the same instrument, advertising may refer to a superseded product only while it is on scope and new enrolments are permitted. When enrolments stop, the course page advertising it stops being permitted too — and if ASQA approves a later enrolment date, that moves with it.

Sector-wide: the item 14 cut-off, measured across every live scope · the repealed 12-month rule

Product type
Unit of competency
Training package
BSB — Business Services Training Package
Currency period ends
14 April 2021
Latest release
Release 1 · 25 March 2015
Supersedes
BSBDES401A
Superseded by
CUADES411 equivalent

Where the register points next

Each step below is one supersession training.gov.au publishes between two products. The label on the rail is the equivalence the register declares for that step — not our reading of it.

  1. BSBDES401Superseded — equivalentGenerate design solutions
  2. equivalent
  3. CUADES411CurrentGenerate design solutions

What the register says changed

These are the mapping notes training.gov.au attaches to each supersession, quoted as the register writes them. They are the only public record of what actually changed between two versions.

  • BSBDES401ABSBDES401equivalent24 March 2015

    Updated to meet Standards for Training Packages

  • BSBDES401CUADES411equivalent15 April 2021

    The register records this supersession but attaches no note on what changed.

Is BSBDES401 on your scope?

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Where BSBDES401 is used

training.gov.au lists BSBDES401 inside 22 training products, 2 of them current. Every one of them is below, with the register's own core or elective flag for BSBDES401 in that product.

Current products 2 listed

CodeTraining productTypeBSBDES401 is
ICT41119Certificate IV in Telecommunications Network DesignQualificationelective
MSF40318Certificate IV in Kitchen and Bathroom DesignQualificationelective

Products no longer current 20 listed

The register still records BSBDES401 inside these, but it no longer recommends them as current. They are here because a scope history or an old enrolment can still point at them.

CodeTraining productTypeBSBDES401 is
CUA40415Certificate IV in Live Production and Technical ServicesQualificationelective
CUA40615Certificate IV in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultural ArtsQualificationelective
CUA40715Certificate IV in DesignQualificationcore
CUA40915Certificate IV in Music IndustryQualificationelective
CUA41215Certificate IV in Screen and MediaQualificationelective
CUA41315Certificate IV in Visual ArtsQualificationelective
CUA50513Diploma of Live Production DesignQualificationelective
CUA51115Diploma of Visual ArtsQualificationelective
CUA51215Diploma of CeramicsQualificationcore
CUASS00049Preparatory Skill Set for Professional Graphic Design PracticeSkill setelective
Show the remaining 10 products no longer current
CodeTraining productTypeBSBDES401 is
ICP40815Certificate IV in ePublishingQualificationelective
ICT41115Certificate IV in Telecommunications Network DesignQualificationelective
MSF40113Certificate IV in Interior DecorationQualificationelective
MSF40118Certificate IV in Interior DecorationQualificationelective
MSF40213Certificate IV in Furniture Design and TechnologyQualificationelective
MSF40313Certificate IV in Design of Kitchens, Bathrooms and Interior SpacesQualificationcore
MSF50213Diploma of Interior Design and DecorationQualificationelective
MSF50218Diploma of Interior DesignQualificationelective
MSF60113Advanced Diploma of Interior DesignQualificationelective
MSF60118Advanced Diploma of Interior DesignQualificationelective

Source: this product on training.gov.au, Australia's national training register — or go straight to the units it requires. The rule itself is item 14 of F2025L00355, and ASQA publishes the extensions it has granted. Read on 28 August 2026 UTC. Every code, title, date, status and equivalence flag on this page is the register's; nothing here is estimated or inferred, and where the register publishes nothing we say so.

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