UX Design for Beginners
With this ’UX Design for Beginners’ course, you will learn to improve User Experience of Websites, Mobile Apps or any product by applying UX, Usability & Interaction Design principle! Project Files Included.
Length: 5 hrs 14 min.
Start your UX Design career NOW with this UX Design for Beginners course.
This course will walk you through all the Principles, Essential Concepts and Behavior Patterns of Humans – when they use Websites, Mobile Apps or any product – so you can Design better digital products and delight your users.
Develop mindsets and skills to deliver a better UX for any Website, Mobile App or product. This course 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 UX DESIGN, you’ll leave this course with a practical understanding of which qualities make products delightful, efficient, functional and usable.
What We’ll Cover:
- 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
- Identify usability or Interaction Design problems with just a glance
- Why Human behavior with Digital Products is important for UX?
- 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? and a lot more
- UX CASE STUDY: Find and solve the UX problems within an actual Medical App
Enjoy all the Real-World Examples inside this course and start your UX Design Career by mastering these basics in the right way.
Chapters:
CHAPTER 01: UX DEFINITION AND ROLES 20:08
- What is UX?
- Can I Be a UX Designer?
- Different Roles of UX Designers
- Major Parts of UX Design
CHAPTER 02: HUMAN CENTERED DESIGN, DOUBLE DIAMOND MODEL & ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS 23:52
- What is Human Centered Design (HCD)?
- Double Diamond Model of Design by Don Norman
- Using Root Cause Analysis
- Seven Stages of Action by Don Norman
- Five Second Usability Test
- What is Agile UX?
CHAPTER 03: PRINCIPLES & CONCEPTS OF UX, USABILITY & INTERACTION DESIGN 1:48:29
- What are Affordances, Anti-Affordances and Signifiers?
- Examples of Affordances and Signifiers
- Affordances and Signifiers Explained
- What is Mapping and Natural Mapping?
- Conceptual and Mental Models in UX
- Working Memory and Attention Span
- Working Memory Examples
- Recognition rather than Recall
- Examples of Recognition rather than Recall
- How Do User Expectations Work?
- User Expectation Examples
- More on User Expectations
- Limits of Peripheral Vision
- Examples of Limited Peripheral Vision
- What is Context of Use in User Experience?
- Context of Use Explanation
- Why Stakeholders are as Important as Users
- What is Information Architecture?
- Information Architecture Examples
CHAPTER 04: HUMAN BEHAVIOR, DECISION MAKING, DECISION MAKING & MORE 28:44
- Human Laziness, Decision Paralysis, and Reading Pattern
- Human Decisions - How Old and New Brian Works
- Humans Hate Change
- Our Goals and Change Blindness
- Examples of Human Behavior, Decision Paralysis, and Why We Hate Change
- Examples of F and Z Reading Patterns
CHAPTER 05: DESIGNING FOR HUMANS 1:00:50
- Discoverability - Can Users Discover Product Features?
- Discoverability Assignment
- Learnability - Can Users Learn to Use a Product Easily?
- Feedback - Do Users Know What is Happening?
- Feedback within Context
- Examples of Visual and Audio Feedback
- Consistency in Design and Function Examples
- Constraints and How to Use Them to Improve UX
- What are Slips and Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
- Designing for Errors with Examples
- User Always in Control with Examples
- Using Grouping and Chunking to Improve UX
- Physical and Mental Limitations of Humans
CHAPTER 06: HOW DEVELOPERS CAN IMPROVE USER EXPERIENCE 1:12:25
- Using Design Patterns
- Don't Let Users Think - Do Heavy Calculations Yourself
- Why Users Always Need Speed and When to Use Delays
- Power of Smart Defaults and Suggestion
- Guiding and Training Users at Every Step
- Reduce Number of Barriers for User Entry
- Use Natural Language rather than Codes
- Examples of Natural Language or Conversational Forms
- Using Google Analytics
- Timing of Notifications and Our Perception
- Data Driven Design and Anticipatory Design with Examples
Instructor: Muhammad Ahsan Pervaiz
Muhammad Ahsan Pervaiz is an award-winning, multi-talented designer. His hunger for perfecting the User Interface from all aspects has led him to work with clients all over the world, including the USA, Australia, UK, and United Arab Emirates. With a career spanning over 10 years, his work includes projects for FORTUNE 500 companies such as INTEL, PANASONIC and Coca Cola.
Muhammad’s experience includes improving the User Experience of the UK GP Tools Mobile App, games and e-commerce websites, and creating new design patterns for showing passwords safely in password fields. He’s worked from App Icon Design to App UI Design, and from wireframes and prototypes to mockup design.
His ultimate goal is to make more awesome UI Designers, and ease the pain of learning for newcomers in this field of UI Design.
