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UX for Beginners: Craft delightful experiences by mastering the basics

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Overview

Every field of study have some Principles and Basic concepts and if you master those concepts and principles, you can apply them anywhere. Similarly in User Experience Design, experts are studying Human behavior from past many years so you need to master these UX, Usability and Interaction Design principles

This course will walk you through all the Principles, essential Concepts and Behavior patterns of Humans when they use Website, Mobile Apps or any product so you can Design better digital products and satisfy users.

Develop mindsets and skills to deliver a better UX for any Website, Mobile App or product. This class is full of latest practical examples and screenshots of UX problems which a lot of Designers, developers and Product managers are making with their products.

 Whether you’re a designer, developer, or are completely new to ALL of this, you’ll leave this course with a practical understanding of which qualities makes products pleasurable, efficient and functional.

This course teaches you about

  • How to become UX Designer
  • Learn about HCD & User Centered Design models
  • Develop your instincts and skills for UX Design (Double Diamond model of Design)
  • Develop Root cause analysis skill and learn about 7 Steps of Action
  • How Human mental and Physical limits effects UX
  • How to reduce Cognitive load to improve User Experience
  • Use UX principles to instantly identify problems in your product
  • How to avoid common UX problems in Websites and mobile apps
  • How Discoverability, learnability and feedback improves UX of your digital products?
  • Design patterns and Anticipatory Design
  • Human behavior with Digital Products
  • How to improve Conversion by eliminating barriers to entry
  • How to use Google Analytics to know more about user
  • How Users scan and read on your websites?

Enjoy all the Real-World Examples inside this course and start your UX Design Career by mastering these basics in the right way.

Syllabus

  • Introduction to the Course
  • What Is UX And UI Design?
  • Can I be a UX Designer
  • Different Roles Of UX Designers
  • Major Parts Of UX Design
  • Human Centered Design
  • Double Diamond Model of Design by Don Norman
  • Root Cause Analysis Skill
  • What are Seven Stages Of Actions?
  • What are Affordances And Signifiers?
  • Affordances & Signifiers explained → Headshot
  • Examples of Affordances & Signifiers
  • Natural Mapping
  • Conceptual and Mental Models to improve UX
  • Working Memory and attention Span
  • Examples of Working memory
  • Recognition and recall
  • Examples of Recognition rather than recall
  • User Expectations in UX
  • User Expectations explained → Headshot Video
  • Examples of User Expectations
  • Peripheral Vision Limitations
  • Examples of Peripheral Vision limits
  • What is Context Of Use?
  • Context of use → Headshot video
  • Why stakeholders are important in UX?
  • Humans Behavior, decision Paralysis and Scanning Patterns
  • How Old & New Brain make decisions
  • Humans hate Change
  • Our Goals and Change Blindness
  • Examples Human behavior decision Paralysis hate change
  • F & Z Patterns, Cart Abandonment, Form Field Conversions examples
  • How Discoverability enhances a product?
  • What is Learability?
  • How Feedback plays vital role in UX?
  • Examples of Feedback
  • Feedback within Context - Walmart Example
  • 4 Consistancy With Examples 8
  • 4 Constraints With Examples
  • Slips And Mistakes With Examples
  • How to Design for Errors With Examples
  • 8 User always In Control With Examples
  • 9 Grouping and Chunking with Examples
  • 10 Humans have Limits
  • Using Design Patterns
  • Don't let your users think
  • Why Users need Speed and how to effectively show delays?
  • Smart defaults and power of Suggestion
  • Guiding And Training Users at each step
  • Reducing barrier to entry
  • Natural Language rather than Codes With Examples
  • Natural / Conversational Forms examples
  • Google analytics and Hotjar to reveal more about users
  • Notification Timings and perception
  • Anticipatory or Data-Driven Design
  • CASE STUDY Project - Find UX problems in GPTools App
  • CASE STUDY SOLUTION - UX Problems in GPTOOLS
  • Student Request → Information Architecture Introduction
  • Examples of Information Architecture (Best practices)
  • 5 second usability test
  • What is Agile UX? Introduction

Taught by

Muhammad Ahsan

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