Practical UX Weekly: Season Two

Course details

Ever wondered how other UX designers troubleshoot problems and juggle conflicting priorities? In this weekly series, Drew Bridewell—a user experience designer and leader of the digital transformation team at InVision—shares his hard-earned knowledge and shows how to apply basic UX design principles to real-world projects. Drew discusses his daily workflow, shares tips and tricks for presenting your work and collaborating with others, introduces valuable tools, and walks you through a day in the life of a product designer. Tune in and start looking at your own design projects in a new light.

Concepts

Introduction

A weekly series about professional UX design

UX Skills

Storyboarding in user experience design
The art of creating a successful presentation
Building a case study
Designing a workshop
Workflow map fundamentals
Facilitating remote meetings
Embracing Practice in Product Design
Naming fundamentals
Icebreakers in UX design
The relationship with the whiteboard

Product Design

The roles in user experience design
InVision Freehand introduction and tips
Introduction to UX design - The basics
Problem-solving in UX design
Transitioning roles in design
The race to the draft
Capturing your work
The UX design trade-off formula

Communication and Collaboration

Adopting a culture of design
Project kickoffs - Setting you, your team, and your company up for success
Mentoring designers
Creating better 1 - 1s

Design Systems

Design systems - What they are and what they do
Building a case to invest in design systems
Conducting the modern day design audit
Setup essentials - Getting started
Developing the information architecture of your design system
The workflow of designing a component

Design Drills

Alignment shortcuts in InVision Studio
Working with typography in InVision Studio
Design hygiene
Whiteboarding