User experience (UX) design provides a theoretical understanding of how users interact with websites. Everything humans interact with has an experience associated with it. Some are good, some are bad, but it is only recently that have we begun to consciously design these experiences. We are now at a point in time when experience-design has suddenly exploded into the consciousness of business people and ordinary people all over the world.
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User experience (UX) design provides a theoretical understanding of how users interact with websites. Everything humans interact with has an experience associated with it. Some are good, some are bad, but it is only recently that have we begun to consciously design these experiences. We are now at a point in time when experience-design has suddenly exploded into the consciousness of business people and ordinary people all over the world.
User experience (UX) design provides a theoretical understanding of how users interact with websites. Everything humans interact with has an experience associated with it. Some are good, some are bad, but it is only recently that have we begun to consciously design these experiences. We are now at a point in time when experience-design has suddenly exploded into the consciousness of business people and ordinary people all over the world.
This comprehensive 3-in-1 training course is designed to give you a foundation in the concepts User Experience and you will be show various example scenarios that will help you apply UX to your future solutions.
Contents and Overview
This training program includes 3 complete courses, carefully chosen to give you the most comprehensive training possible.
The first course, The Fundamentals of User Experience - a Process for Problem Solving, you start the journey by understanding how UX came to be and where it fits into business and web development. You will look at UX design, quantitative and qualitative observation, problem statement, ideation, brainstorming, wireframes, and prototypes. Moving on, you’ll learn about UX design and Agile development, and will get an understanding of user hypothesis and testing. Finally, you’ll look at the specific opportunities in UX design and how to approach the not-too-distant future.
The second course, UX Design: Understanding User Engagement, you’ll start your journey by looking at human-centered observations, where you will learn different types of observation methods, and also about human-centered design. Next, you will learn to build, design, and test your persona. Moving on, dive into observing user habits and technology, where you will see the difference in good and bad habits and set them up. Finally, you take a look at Human Insights and get started writing your own Insights from a User Point of View.
The third course, UX Design - Understanding the User and Business, you will start off by understanding business and UX design needs. Here you’ll learn about key performance indicators and experience gaps. Further you learn how to go about a problem statement and iterate it. Also get acquainted about user hypotheses and learn about user experience scenarios. Finally, explore the User Journey and Task development, building journey templates, a storyboarding template, and designing storyboarding sketches.
By the end of this training program, you will be well versed with the concepts of User Experience design and will become experts in UX/UI, prototyping, and testing.
About the Authors
Chris R. Becker is an imaginative and creative Sr. UX Designer/ IxD / Design Thinker and Educator. A creative thinker with the ability to design across media platforms from Web to iOS and Android as well as SaaS and service design. A versatile designer and systems thinker with problem solving skills for User Experience Design, Organized and passionate with a passion for following design problems from concept to finished product. Versed in Agile product development methodologies and flexible within waterfall as well he applies LEAN UX methods to rapid prototyping, design research, and user testing for taking ideas from the drawing board to the real world. Chris also Participates in making through Fine Art & Graphic Design background which lends to a variety of creative thinking, design thinking, Human Center Design Research, User Testing, and problem-solving skills. Studies have included courses in Rapid Prototyping, Usability/ Heuristics, Human Centered Design Research, Design Thinking, Painting, Sculpture, Drawing, Print Making, Archetype, Graphic Design, Typography, Systems Theory, Media Theory, Programming, Drawing, Motion,and Art History. His Specialties include: Design Thinking, User Experience Design, Information Architecture, Branding, Identity Design, Conceptual modeling, Rapid Prototyping, User Interface, Brainstorming, Product Design, Advertising, Retail Design, Interactive Art Director, Wireframes, Application GUI Design, Multimedia Presentations, Production Artist, Web Master, Social Media, UX Strategy Development.
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Learning objectives
- Learn more about insights, wireframes & prototypes, deploying and scaling
- Apply user testing and design iteration to ensure a smooth web experience
- Understand human-centered observations and know how to engage in ux thinking
- Explore user persona with the requirements of building a persona, user data, habits and testing techniques
- Understand business and user needs and how to define a problem effectively
- Get acquainted with user journey and task development techniques building storyboarding templates and sketches
- Learn more about insights, wireframes & prototypes, deploying and scaling
- Apply user testing and design iteration to ensure a smooth web experience
- Understand human-centered observations and know how to engage in ux thinking
- Explore user persona with the requirements of building a persona, user data, habits and testing techniques
- Understand business and user needs and how to define a problem effectively
- Get acquainted with user journey and task development techniques building storyboarding templates and sketches
Syllabus
The Fundamentals of User Experience - a Process for Problem Solving
Deep knowledge in User Experience for solving problems as well as getting to know techniques that will help designers become experts in UX/UI, prototyping and testing.
- Introduction of instructor and course
- Topic Overviews
- Learn Apply Test
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Syllabus
Deep knowledge in User Experience for solving problems as well as getting to know techniques that will help designers become experts in UX/UI, prototyping and testing.
- Introduction of instructor and course
- Topic Overviews
- Learn Apply Test
This video will give you an overview of the User Experience.
- Learn UX introduction and scope of problem
- Explore a brief history of UX and Some people you should know
- Join the conversation and get excited
Get to know a review of the roles and skillset that make up the User Experience.
- Learn that UX is a team and has many skills sets
- Explore the different UX roles
- UX use-case and how teams can improve a product
User Experience makes a majority of the software in our world. Software needs interfaces.
- Screens are everywhere from phones to refrigerators screens are run by software and software is used by humans
- Software is a process that can be agile and should be tested
- Use software both Sketch and Adobe Illustrator for wireframes as well as InvisionApp for prototypes
An introduction to how UX and Design Thinking are related. Building on exploring the Double Diamond Thinking Process.
- Get introduced to Design Thinking
- Learn about UX and Double Diamond Process
- Explore User Experience as a process
This video is an overview of the discovery phase of the Double Diamond Thinking process.
- Explore UX as observation
- Know why UX cares about users
- Learn how being curious drives solutions and informs discovery
A review of the how UX gathers observations through Data in the discovery phase of the Double Diamond Thinking process.
- Take a dive into the quantitative and qualitative means
- Why we gather quantitative data
- How data informs a UX designer observations
User experience make observations through data and research in the discovery phase of the Double Diamond Thinking process.
- Learn why UX uses both Primary and Secondary Research
- Learn more about Primary Research
- Explore Secondary Research
User experience synthesizes insights through data and research in the Define phase of the Double Diamond Thinking process.
- Why Users matter to Insights?
- Take a look at Insight writing
- Know how insights and users drive ideas and establish meaning
User experience understands business through KPI’s and Problem Statements in the Define phase of the Double Diamond Thinking process.
- Take a look at UX and Business and how KPI’s help UX
- UX & Business - Why getting on the same page matters?
- Know how to write a Problem Statement
User experience understands business and user and wants to solve problems with ideas in the Development phase of the Double Diamond Thinking process.
- Learn how to create ideas
- Tips and tricks for generating a lot of ideas
The aim of this video is to take a look at the UX Scenarios.
- Explore about S.W.O.T.
- Follow of the UX exercise: User -> Needs -> Goal
- Learn the importance of building wireframes using UX Scenario use cases
Exploring ideas and solutions that need to be prototyped, which can be chosen and moved forward with wireframes in the prototyping phase of the Double Diamond Thinking process.
- Learn about using Wireframes and prototypes to build UX scenarios
- Understand the Interface, size, and purpose of what a user is doing
- Get to know how wireframes are useful as early prototypes
Prototypes are solutions that need to be tested and can be chosen and moved into delivery within the Deploy phase of the Double Diamond Thinking process.
- Learn about UX Prototypes
- Validate and test a prototype
- Learn that Solution delivery requires iterations
Prototypes require user flows that think about the steps a user needs to accomplish a task and that can be tested during the Deploy phase of the Double Diamond Thinking process.
- UX prototype urge users to make decisions
- Understand user’s decision for improving prototypes and wireframes
- Test user flow links back to observations and research
Prototypes require testing to see if a user can accomplish a task during the Deploy phase of the Double Diamond Thinking process.
- Testing UX prototypes confirm whether a solution is being made
- Create feedback for prototype iteration using testing
- Understand how to improve prototypes using iteration
Once Prototypes accomplish user tasks and are tested, they can be implemented during the Deploy phase of the Double Diamond Thinking process.
- Solve problems by utilizing testing and choosing the best answer
- UX Solution leads to scaling for software update
- Update software that requires communication with users and test to see if it worked like the prototypes
A Review on how UX and Design Thinking are related. Building on exploring the Double Diamond Thinking Process.
- Design Thinking Overview
- Review the UX and Double Diamond Process
- Why UX? Design thinking through the Double Diamond matter.
User Experience applies its knowledge to software.
- Software as a Service - The way we use and understand software.
- Understand how software runs and connects everything
- UX presence in Apps, computers and software
An overview of how software development uses User Experience and is best built through Agile.
- What is Agile and why it matters for software
- Agile methodology and the Agile Manifesto
- Why Agile
UX follows a process that is used in design thinking, prototypes, and iteration to build better software. Agile works with a team of UX and Development.
- Agile Cycle - Ideate Prototype Test
- Learn about speeding up process using UX in development
- Understand the UX and development relation with agile methodology
User experience is present in majority of the software in the world. Software needs to be tested.
- Building ideas to test defined solution hypothesis
- User hypothesis madlib writing exercise
- Tips for iterating software solutions
UX is about making solutions in the world that we can test. Prototyping is a method for testing ideas quickly.
- Learn about refining ideas through iteration
- Improve products using prototyping and iterations
User Experience applies its knowledge to business services.
- UX is strategic and can produce solutions for new business services
- Service design concentrates on customer journey and system touch points
- Elements of Service design and how customers engage in the system
An overview of how Application development uses User Experience and is best built through Agile.
- Agile is used for application development
- Understanding the platform allows UX to design with in a SDK (software development Kit) or a product
- Application need and production is skyrocketing and we need to move software into the market quickly
UX follow a process that can be applied to emerging technologies. Virtual Reality and Augmented reality require great UX.
- Virtual Reality has a history but is booming, led by gaming and entertainment
- Virtual Reality is immersive and digital
- Augmented Reality is a blend of physical and digital using the camera functionality of mobile or new products
User experience utilizes technology and computation which is rapidly gaining artificial intelligence.
- Artificial Intelligence is computers that can think and problem solve
- UX can work with AI to learn more quickly or build new product or engage in recommendations
- Artificial intelligence could help with user testing or user feedback and it not here to take our jobs
UX is about making solutions in the world and this is a skill that can be taught.
- Education can prepare us for the future but UX need to be distributed through education
- UX and Prototyping are attempting to improve education and can in turn improve all software as UX is a continuing education
- Fundamental of UX and review UX Process, UX roles, agile development, UX iteration, UX testing, and UX as a process for the future.
This video will give an overview of the entire course
The aim of this video is to learn about the human centered observation methods
- Get an overview of the Double Diamond thinking process
- Learn about the reflective loop
- Get an overview about the observation methods
The aim of this video is to learn about the methods and process that make up observing users
- Explore UX as known and unknown observer
- Learn the importance of observation
- Take up the observation challenge
User experience collects data on its users and combines both qualitative and quantitative data
- Explore the quantitative data collection
- Know how users feel with the qualitative data
- Learn the functioning of UX with the use of data
User experience tracks its users as a way to get inside the head of our users
- Know how Google analytics helps reveal data about our users behavior
- Know how eye tracking helps
- Explore the three observing aspects for tracking
The aim of this video is to review the methods and process that make up getting deeper information from our users through conversations and interviews
- Learn how to start a conversation
- What is a good conversation all about?
- Get at the heart of the matter through the 5 whys. Take up the challenge.
User experience communicates with its users and should pick up on behavior that leads to how users feel
- Know how depth of conversations matter
- Learn how empathy maps help
- Test and see where you need improvement
The aim of this video is to get introduced to Human Centered Design and why UX starts user first
- Discuss about users and how we can identify them
- Get to know about the human needs and how UX understands what users want
The aim of this video is to get an overview of the empathy phase of the Double Diamond thinking process
- Explore how to understand users through cognitive behavioral therapy
- Understand user habits and behaviors
- Discuss about empathy production and testing, empathy tests.
The aim of this video is to review how UX gathers empathy for our users. Understand context and building proto-personas.
- Learn to build the AEIOU framework
- Explore empathy through a Proto-Persona
- Review the quick Proto-Persona output
User experiences make our understanding and our empathy for our user in a shareable format
- Build a digital Proto-Persona
- Importance of an authentic photo for your users
- Improve your Illustrator Proto-Persona building a shareable version
User experience applies its knowledge understanding and sharing understanding of users
- Overview of section 3 : Building a User Persona
- User Personas are about listening to your users
- Captured empathy is worth sharing
The aim of this video is to get an overview of building personas for a product or organization
- Explore the elements that make up a user persona
- Get to know the benefits of using and distributing user personas
- Use Adobe Illustrator to start building a user persona
Being authentic to user takes getting to know them. Applying personality traits to user is about capturing how they are.
- Explore the 16 personalities
- Take the Myers Briggs test and build a way to evaluate a user’s personality
- Use Adobe Illustrator to apply a personality scale and visual
Applying empathy to user traits is to be aware of a user’s motivations. User personas have ways to be felt more flushed out.
- Explore the 3 factors User motivation is made up of: Autonomy Competence Relatedness.
- Use Adobe Illustrator to apply a motivations and visual
- Use Adobe Illustrator to apply a Technology usage and needs/desires
Communicating and sharing user info is about more than just words.We can also visualize data to display more shareable information about our users.
- Explore the simple quick way to display simple data and are effective in differentiating content about users
- Take a look at the new things learnt about our users that should be captured in their personas
- Use Adobe Illustrator to apply visualizing data using the graph tool for visualizing technology usage
Being authentic to user takes understanding how they operate and go through their day. Communicating their habits can impact how they use a product or service.
- Habits and routines are connected and we all become schedule-driven
- Review the habit cycle and how connected habits become part of our day
- Use Adobe Illustrator to build a routine for your persona throughout the day. Add iconography for actions and times.
Applying empathy means attempting to capture how users feel. Communicating how a user get frustrated or happy or confused can be meaningful to a product team or organization.
- User personas do a lot of things but if they don’t communicate user needs and pain points, they are incomplete
- Use Adobe Illustrator to add user needs pain points
- Use Adobe Illustrator to iterate the layout to the user persona fix the structure and typography
User personas have immense value in an organization as they are a lifeline to thinking about real people. They need to be designed as shareable as possible both printed and digital.
- Know what sharable means on different social channels
- Learn how to distribute your persona to everyone who touches the customer
- Use Adobe Illustrator to put the final touches on the persona and export as .pdf
Understanding habits informs a user’s experience
- Learn about Habit Cycle and Hooked
- Take a look at the Hooked Model and Fogg’s Behavioral chart
- Understand that habit is about users and their competitive nature
Get an overview of how application development is the production of tools and humans make tools that become habits
- Review how UX and humans apply to the iceberg model
- Technology is a huge source of habits but it is rooted in observed behavior
- Explore the 3 factors of habits
UX pays attention to people and how they behave. We’ll establish both good and bad habits by design.
- Take a look at Pavlok’s Habit Model
- Review good habits that are applicable to both a UX designer as well as how they apply to products and services
- Review bad habits and how they can have both physical effects and routine problems. Challenge to self-assess your own habits.
The aim of this video is to consider how you design for users, starts with caring about your user and their habits
- Discuss a UX scenario defining the 3 parts: 1. The Persona, 2. The Scenario 3. The Goals.
- Use Illustrator to build a UX scenario Template
- Using Illustrator to add persona information and some goal content
UX is about telling a good story. The UX process is also a habit.
- Explore the 3 sound elements that UX Scenarios are built on
- Know why UX uses storytelling
- Iterate your UX scenario, add the scenario story, include context, conceptual images, and emotions of your users.
The aim of this video is to review how the 3 parts of making a habit: Cue, Routine, Reward are captured in the UX scenario.
- Know how UX Scenarios can be used by the team to work out problem definition and epics in an agile product design
- Iterate your images for emotion and context
- Know what iterating your UX scenario is all about
The aim of this video is to learn about Insights
- Explore Insight Definition
- Learn the 5 Principles
- Know why Insights matter
Writing insight is a process that considers a lot including human values, need, desires, feeling, emotions, behaviors, actions, pain points, and problem areas.
- Learn the 4 Rules to insights
- Review an insight writing exercise
- Using Illustrator writeout an insight using the situation > dilemma > perfect situation.
Insights are the product of defining or finding the right problem. They live between the two diamonds.
- Explore the importance of Insights
- Review the POV insight method
- Using Illustrator build out an initial POV insight statement. Review what needs to be improved.
Insights are about connecting the dots about your user in culture for a business and with technology. They are used for much more than just UX problems.
- Review the initial pass on the POV Insight. Check for its obviousness and see what could be improved.
- Review what makes for a surprising insight.
- Using Illustrator refine your POV insight statement to build out a surprising insight.
Building out insight is key to producing and finding great solutions. Insights should be thoughtful and shared among larger teams.
- Explore the uses of Insights
- Using Illustrator build a more sharable format for you POV insight
- Know the importance of sharing Insights
This video will give you an overview about the course.
UX needs to communicate its value to business.
- Understand the business model
- Take a look at the overlap between user needs and business needs
- Understand a business through building and creating business model canvas or lean business canvas
With this video, review how connected business is to data and how UX needs to understand what is worth tracking.
- Explore that data is key to understanding not just what our users do but how a business operates
- Know what a business finds valuable through Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s); KPI’s should be Smart
- Get an overview of what a KPI is, how to consider, how a business uses them and a challenge to write a KPI for a local grocery store
Working with business as a UX designer is looking for the sweet intersection of needs.
- Identify User needs and business goals
- Identify how a business risk comes in picture
- Communicate the value UX brings in the development of products
User experience has ways to impact many business needs but especially helps with Brand, strategy, revenue, and compliance.
- Learn that UX and Business are concerned with products and both go about asking a lot of questions
- Know the role of a Business Analyst
- Explore the existence of experience gap with an example
The aim of this video is to get a Deep knowledge in User Experience about understanding business.
- Learn business and help define problems
- Review how UX helps understand the space between user need and business needs
- Learn how business needs are complex and a UX designer must understand the business playing field
This video is an overview of how businesses think and how problems can be complex. Relating how practice makes perfect.
- Review the User persona from Understanding User Engagement
- Overview the Problem statement process and write an initial statement using illustrator
- Discuss how problem statements are a UX tool for businesses to complete not for a UX designer to interject too much
This video is a review of the problem statement challenge discussing how problems are not fully formed out the gate.
- Know that UX is a facilitator and can help businesses understand the value of design through iteration
- Go back into the initial problem statement challenge and add some clarity via time specific iterations
- Discuss the process for creating consensus on a multiple problem statements through dot voting and combining versions via iteration. Complete a problem statement
After iterating and coming to a definition of a problem the goal is sharing this consensus. Problem statements are key deliverable from a business to UX.
- Review to make sure problem statements are time driven and are S.M.A.R.T
- Learn how problem definition allows UX to be involved in advocating for Time, Cost, Scope, and quality
- Get to know how UX can evolve it into solutions
The aim of this video is to get specific about which are user problems and which are not.
- Explore what are the problems, how we define them and how we focus on human centered problem finding
- Learn about Business problem definition and user problem definition focusing on leads and solutions
With this video get an overview of defining what is worth being solved.
- Learn how to write a User Hypothesis via mad lib process using Illustrator
- Write a user hypothesis and complete the madlib
- Take your best shot
This video will review the first pass at the user hypothesis and work through iterations.
- Learn about Hypothesis leading to ideation and prototyping solutions
- Get to know more about hypothesis based on empirical research
- Iterate the user hypothesis and set clear and logical language to the writing
User experience is attempting to define the problem and we use multiple passes to communicate with our clients.
- Write a POV and define multiple viewpoints
- Learn that Insights are the connective tissue in definition for a business
- Bridge the gap of communication with UX. The definition of the problem can have impact on the potential solutions
User experience is looking to point business in the right direction through insight about our users.
- Learn that User insights need to be deep and meaningful about users this requires iterating on them
- Review the insight starting place and add more surprising content that improves the depth and meaning of the insight
- Get to know that Insights are key to the UX and business relationship that once done they need to be shared with all team members
The aim of this video is to get a Deep understanding in User Experience for defining business and user requirements.
- Explore why UX defines requirements with our businesses
- Explore what a business requirement looks like
This video will give you an overview of finding the right problem to solve through definition.
- Establish a requirement matrix
- Use collaborative tools and build a Google Sheet to capture requirements
- Review a requirement matrix and make sure the elements are captured
Why defining requirements matters. Start with clarity to end with great products.
- Write a requirement/user story
- Using the google sheet requirement matrix jump in a write a business requirement
- Requirement challenge. Add multiple business requirements for the grocery app
Business requirements can lead to user features.
- Define a user requirement from a business requirement. UX is trying to understand user needs and emotions
- Define the difference between functionality and feature. Relating technology and interaction of users
- Using the google sheet fill in a user requirement based on your business requirement add functionality of technology and feature of user interface
Definition is not a secret. Value is gained from sharing between the business and the users.
- Explore the Requirements that need to be in a sharable format to be agree upon
- Get to know why we use Google Docs
- Review why requirements are key to UX and how businesses can gain value from us sharing out results
The aim of this video is to get a Deep knowledge in User Experience for solving problems through a User Journey as well as building on our understanding of users.
- Get a Topic overview and introduction to the User Journeys
- Requirements are not written in stone. Explore what UX is looking to understand
- Explore what User Journeys are all about
The aim of this video is to Review the Business and user requirements as starting place for building a user journey.
- Review a 3 Zone User Journey Map. The Lens, The Experience, The Opportunities
- Create a user journey template added the Lens swim lane using an Illustrator
- Start importing content from previous video sessions
The aim of this video is to review and start building out the experience zone.
- Learn that UX can help define the business funnel and phases
- Review funnel types and why business considers funnels
- Devise a funnel for the User Journey and add to the experience zone via illustrator
A User Journey happens over time. With this video learn that UX maps these touchpoints as way to visualize the entire experience.
- Learn more about Touch points and how to use them
- Add steps and numbers to illustrator
- Explore what is necessary to tell the story
The aim of this video is to start building out the opportunities zone.
- Discuss how opportunities are worth paying attention to and are contextual to the phase of the experience
- Opportunities to be viewed in context to how your user feels along their journey
- Add opportunities based on business requirements as well as other touch points experiences your user is experiencing
This video would give a review of the progress that has to be made on your user journey. Add context and fix up the design so things are sharable.
- Get to know the importance of Iteration and testing your solutions
- A discussion on how User Journeys are the culmination of a lot of Business and UX thinking
- A review of the methods and processes that make up getting deeper information from our businesses and users
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Comprehensive introductory guide to ux design
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Excellent starting point for beginners in UX.
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Reinforce your understanding of design thinking principles, which are foundational to UX design and problem-solving.
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Read articles or watch videos explaining the core principles of design thinking.
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Reflect on how these principles apply to everyday problem-solving.
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Identify examples of good and bad UX based on these principles.
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Read 'The Design of Everyday Things' by Don Norman.
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Take notes on key concepts like affordances, signifiers, and mental models.
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Identify examples of good and bad design in your own environment based on the book's principles.
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Apply UX principles learned in the course to a practical redesign project, solidifying your understanding through hands-on experience.
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Choose an app you use frequently and identify its UX pain points.
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Conduct user research to understand how others experience the app.
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Create wireframes and prototypes for your redesigned app.
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Test your prototype with users and iterate based on their feedback.
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Choose a website or app to test.
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Recruit participants for your usability test.
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Create a test plan with specific tasks for participants to complete.
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Conduct the usability test and record your observations.
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Analyze the data and write a report summarizing your findings and recommendations.
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Read 'Don't Make Me Think' by Steve Krug.
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Identify the key principles of usability discussed in the book.
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Analyze websites you use regularly and evaluate their usability based on the book's recommendations.
Create a UX Design Portfolio
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Select your best UX design projects to include in your portfolio.
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Write detailed case studies for each project, highlighting your process and results.
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Design a visually appealing and user-friendly portfolio website.
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Gather feedback on your portfolio from other designers and iterate.
Follow Advanced Prototyping Tutorials
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Enhance your prototyping skills by following advanced tutorials, enabling you to create more sophisticated and interactive prototypes.
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Identify a prototyping tool you want to master (e.g., Figma, Axure, Adobe XD).
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Find advanced tutorials online that cover specific prototyping techniques (e.g., advanced animations, conditional logic).
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Follow the tutorials step-by-step, creating your own prototypes as you learn.
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Experiment with different techniques and apply them to your own projects.
Review Design Thinking Principles
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Reinforce your understanding of design thinking principles, which are foundational to UX design and problem-solving.
Browse courses on
Design Thinking
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- Read articles or watch videos explaining the core principles of design thinking.
- Reflect on how these principles apply to everyday problem-solving.
- Identify examples of good and bad UX based on these principles.
Review 'The Design of Everyday Things'
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Gain a deeper understanding of core UX principles by studying a seminal work in the field.
View
Things That Make Us Smart: Defending Human...
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- Read 'The Design of Everyday Things' by Don Norman.
- Take notes on key concepts like affordances, signifiers, and mental models.
- Identify examples of good and bad design in your own environment based on the book's principles.
Redesign a Familiar App
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Apply UX principles learned in the course to a practical redesign project, solidifying your understanding through hands-on experience.
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- Choose an app you use frequently and identify its UX pain points.
- Conduct user research to understand how others experience the app.
- Create wireframes and prototypes for your redesigned app.
- Test your prototype with users and iterate based on their feedback.
Usability Testing Report
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Develop your skills in usability testing and reporting by conducting a test and creating a comprehensive report of your findings.
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- Choose a website or app to test.
- Recruit participants for your usability test.
- Create a test plan with specific tasks for participants to complete.
- Conduct the usability test and record your observations.
- Analyze the data and write a report summarizing your findings and recommendations.
Review 'Don't Make Me Think'
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Learn practical tips for web usability and interface design from a highly regarded book in the field.
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Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense...
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- Read 'Don't Make Me Think' by Steve Krug.
- Identify the key principles of usability discussed in the book.
- Analyze websites you use regularly and evaluate their usability based on the book's recommendations.
Create a UX Design Portfolio
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Showcase your UX design skills and projects in a professional portfolio, demonstrating your ability to apply course concepts.
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- Select your best UX design projects to include in your portfolio.
- Write detailed case studies for each project, highlighting your process and results.
- Design a visually appealing and user-friendly portfolio website.
- Gather feedback on your portfolio from other designers and iterate.
Follow Advanced Prototyping Tutorials
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Enhance your prototyping skills by following advanced tutorials, enabling you to create more sophisticated and interactive prototypes.
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- Identify a prototyping tool you want to master (e.g., Figma, Axure, Adobe XD).
- Find advanced tutorials online that cover specific prototyping techniques (e.g., advanced animations, conditional logic).
- Follow the tutorials step-by-step, creating your own prototypes as you learn.
- Experiment with different techniques and apply them to your own projects.
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