UX Design

Topics:

• Defining UX Design

  • Creating a design process

  • Choosing tools for rich and lean UX processes

  • Building a UX/UI toolbox

• Crafting Personas and Scenarios

  Recognizing the user

  • Exploring the reality of the user

  • Assessing what the audience values

  • Deriving the critical details that drive the UX design

  • Prioritizing your personas

  Writing scenarios

  • Characteristics of a useful scenario

  • Assessing the user's mental model

  • Identifying the user's gratification point

  Establishing context

  • Stepping back to look at the complete experience

  • Creating a scenario from the task and the context

  • Recognizing the nature of the mobile UX

  Architecting UI structure

  • Categorizing to develop labeling systems

  • Drafting the conceptual design

  Testing your architecture

  • Enriching your information artifacts

  • Specifying the navigation map

  • Integrating search and browse

• Creating a Static Design

  Leveraging the modeling process

  • Creating the conceptual model

  • Generating options for the initial design

  • Distinguishing between low-fidelity and high-fidelity mock-ups

  Dealing with complex tasks

  • Constructing complex interactions

  • Guiding users with feedback and feedforward

  • Making complex information accessible

  • Leveraging location cuing in the UI design

  • Applying the three-step error handling pattern

• Shaping the Interactive Experience

  Integrating UX design patterns

  • Applying the three perspectives: interactive, emotional, environmental

  • Selecting UX design patterns based on user expectations and interaction vocabulary

  • Guiding users with feedback and feedforward

  Assembling a low-fidelity model

  • The role of sketches, wireframes and storyboards

  • Implementing the sketch

  • Building wireframes with key components of the interface

  • Documenting decisions to deliver stakeholder value

• Designing for Mobile Devices

  Addressing the mobile context

  • Integrating the features of the mobile experience into a genuinely mobile design

  • Fashioning tasks in the mobile context

  Developing a mobile design

  • Adjusting for the impact of ubiquity and pervasiveness

  • Taking advantage of options in mobilizing applications

• Generating a Dynamic Model

  Prototyping your UI

  • Working with prototypes

  • Uniting usability, human factors, and stakeholder needs

  • Applying the three perspectives to generate the initial design

  • Writing interaction scripts to identify UX barriers

  Developing a high-fidelity design

  • Composing the interactive experience

  • Implementing embedded and supplemental navigation

• Refining the Design through Testing

  Preparing for testing

  • The role of usability testing in refining the UX design

  • Preparing for usability tests based on goals

  Performing usability tests

  • Conducting tests that provide concrete direction

  • Analyzing the results to revise the design