UX Design for Developers

Introduction

• Add UX design to your talent stack
• How this course will work

1. Why UX Design Is Important

• 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

2. What Makes a Design Good or Bad?

• 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

3. Understanding Users and Their Needs

• 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

4. Ideation: Finding, Refining, and Culling Design Ideas

• 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

5. Helpful Concepts and Techniques for the Design Process

• 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

Conclusion

• Next steps