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Introduction to User Experience Design

by Nick DeNardis
Released October 2021
Publisher(s): Pearson

Video description

8+ Hours of Video Instruction

This LiveLessons video course introduces the principles of user experience design to new or seasoned developers. It covers the terms, roles, responsibilities, and how to build products with users in mind.

Description

Happy users are a company’s biggest advocates. Every interaction a user has with a website or an app contributes to the user experience. Introduction to User Experience Design LiveLessons uncovers the opportunities and processes to creating exceptional user experiences to delight your users.

This course is for anyone involved with the creation of websites or apps that are used by end users. It focuses on the web page, app experience, showing various website examples that are either viewed in a browser or as screenshots, illustrating effective design and considering multiple ways to interact with a site based on different motivations.

About the Instructor

Nick DeNardis oversees the digital communications at Wayne State University, where he is responsible for the overall user experience strategy across the public-facing digital properties. With 20 years of experience working on the web, Nick has led creative teams to produce seamless digital experiences, is a speaker and organizer of national conferences for web and marketing professionals, and a local meetup organizer. Nick has a BS in Computer Science and a Masters in Library and Information Sciences (MLIS) with a focus on information management. Nick has taught web development at the University of Washington, is an IAAP certified professional in web accessibility, and is an executive producer for TEDxDetroit.

Skill Level

• Beginner to Intermediate

What You Will Learn

• Understand what makes a website/app usable
• Learn common patterns that users look for
• Measure the success of a site/app
• Perform A/B tests to increase the usability of a site/app
• Sell design or implementation changes to team members based on data

Who Should Take This Course

• Primary: Web developers, UI designers, UX designers
• Secondary: Web product managers

Course Requirements

• Basic comfort level creating web sites or apps, or have a high level understanding of the process.

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Table of contents

Introduction
Introduction to User Experience Design: Introduction

Lesson 1: Understand Core Concepts of User ExperienceLearning objectives
1.1 Dive into terms
1.2 Understand the technology, business, and design of UX
1.3 Explore roles and responsibilities
1.4 Get into the UX mindset
Lesson 2: Review Principles of Interaction DesignLearning objectives
2.1 Learn Jakob Nielsen’s 10 principles for interaction design
2.2 Visibility of system status
2.3 Match between system and the real world
2.4 User control and freedom
2.5 Consistency and standards
2.6 Error prevention
2.7 Recognition rather than recall
2.8 Flexibility and efficiency of use
2.9 Aesthetic and minimalist design
2.10 Help users recognize, diagnose, and recover from errors
2.11 Help and documentation

Lesson 3: Walk Through the UX ProcessLearning objectives
3.1 Build user-centered thinking
3.2 Learn the different UX disciplines
3.3 Lower the cognitive friction
3.4 Explore a case study: internal customer-service tool–Part 1
3.5 Explore a case study: internal customer-service tool–Part 2

Lesson 4: Discover UX Myths and PitfallsLearning objectives
4.1 Understand UX != UI
4.2 Explore the myth: Only UX professionals can improve the user experience
4.3 Explore the pitfall: User feature requests translate to good UX
4.4 Discover lazy or messy user interfaces

Lesson 5: Create UX ArtifactsLearning objectives
5.1 Create user flow
5.2 Craft sketches
5.3 Build wireframes
5.4 Add design
5.5 Finish with implementation
5.6 Explore a case study: coffee-shop website where users can subscribe to coffee of the day

Lesson 6: Change the User ExperienceLearning objectives
6.1 Learn the three pillars: Happy, Satisfied, and Productive
6.2 Discover you are not the user
6.3 Giving users a path forward

Lesson 7: Explore Case StudiesLearning objectives
7.1 Explore a case study: URL shortener application VR Tour website and app
7.2 Explore a case study: landing page
7.3 Explore a case study: mobile navigation College of Education redesign

Lesson 8: Discover Visual Design PatternsLearning objectives
8.1 See UI shapes, recognition versus recall
8.2 Add whitespace, grouping, and alignment
8.3 Experience animation, changes, and user feedback
8.4 Add colors and contrast
8.5 Build progressive disclosure

Lesson 9: Conduct A/B and Multivariant TestsLearning objectives
9.1 Explore the process
9.2 Build a test
9.3 Analyze the results
9.4 Iterate
9.5 Learn why not everything can be tested
9.6 Explore limitations of iterative design

Lesson 10: Make the Business Case for ChangesLearning objectives
10.1 Understand the business
10.2 Use user research at multiple points in the process
10.3 Sell design systems
10.4 Explore options for in-person research
10.5 Explore options for online research
10.6 Present tests and results

Lesson 11: Avoid Dark PatternsLearning objectives
11.1 Learn dark patterns
11.2 Craft user-focused defaults
11.3 Build in security and privacy
11.4 Understand business goals versus user goals

Lesson 12: Get a Fresh PerspectiveLearning objectives
12.1 Evaluate design from the outside in
12.2 Explore alternative input and output devices
12.3 Test on physical devices

Lesson 13: Apply the PrinciplesLearning objectives
13.1 Start with UX principles
13.2 Discover UX in action
13.3 Test and refine UX

Summary
Introduction to User Experience Design: Summary

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