Overview
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Learn how to create intuitive, elegant UX designs that delight users. Discover an entry point to the principles and process of UX design for typical business apps.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Add UX design to your talent stack
- How this course will work
- You're already a UX designer
- The need for innovative designs
- Leveraging new technology
- A well-designed app example
- The value of good UX design
- Obstacles to good design
- Starting on the UX path
- Example of a design principle
- Design principles: Based in the human brain
- Design principles in context
- Cognitive design principles
- Design principles in the real world
- Why crowded screens are bad
- How to declutter crowded screens
- Bringing it all together
- Building a design team
- Business needs: Why are you redesigning this app?
- Business needs: $100 exercise
- Choosing users to observe
- How to observe users in the wild
- Questions to ask users
- Static vs. dynamic
- Recording and analyzing user observations
- Observation exercise
- Creating your punch list of design tasks
- Sketching is the core technique
- Innovation and ideation
- Embracing constraints for multiple design solutions
- Storyboarding
- Types of storyboards
- Media for storyboards
- Storyboarding evaluation
- Storyboarding exercise
- Beyond storyboarding: Wireframing and illustration
- Prototyping
- Evaluation phase
- Types of design projects
- Dealing with status quo bias
- Be bold
- Breaking free from the past
- The shapes exercise
- Seeing the world with new eyes
- Dealing with conflict in design evaluation
- The economics of UX design
- Aesthetics: Reaching an acceptable threshold
- When to use a professional designer and how to find one
- Next steps
