UX Design for Developers

Course details

Interested in adding UX design to your professional tool kit? In this course, Billy Hollis provides developers with an entry point to the principles and process of UX design for typical business apps. Billy begins by going over the state of business applications today, as well as what a well-designed business app looks like. Next, he digs into design principles, discussing how to leverage the human visual system to help users intuitively see what they need. He also goes over the visual and cognitive problems with crowded screens, presenting alternatives that can help you deal with cluttered interfaces. Plus, learn how to refine your ideas using storyboarding. Upon wrapping up this course, you'll be ready to start creating your own intuitive, elegant UX designs that delight users.

Learning objectives
What a well-designed app looks like
Leveraging cognitive design principles
Decluttering crowded screens
Understanding your users' needs
Recording and analyzing user observations
Storyboarding your ideas
Helpful techniques for the design process
Dealing with conflict in design evaluation

Concepts

Introduction

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

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

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

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

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

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