UX Design Process Simplified from User Research to Usability

Description

UX Process for Beginners from User Interviews to Personas, User stories, Information architecture to Usability testing

There are hundreds of elements involved in a UX Design process and each design firm uses its own version of the implementation. It, therefore, leads to confusion among the beginners about where to start the user experience process. This project-based course starts off by introducing to you the project that you will be working on throughout the course and understand the concepts as you progress. Your target will be to create and improve the user experience of an e-commerce startup called Frankland. You will learn to determine the starting point among the pool of different aspects to be covered including user interviews, personas, customer journey maps, and defining the scope of the product. By the end of this course, you'll have understood the complete UX process and its significance in the website and mobile app development. All the code and supporting files are available at https://github.com/sanjanapackt/PacktPublishing-UX-Design-Process-Simplified-from-User-Research-to-Usability

Drive UX process through ideation, wireframing, and prototyping
Build personas, journey maps, user stories, and user scenarios
Draft affinity diagrams and site maps
Draw user flows and implement them
Implement user lifecycle funnel - a birds-eye view of the UX process
Conduct usability tests including first Impressions and task tests

This course is designed to benefit anyone who wants to learn to design Android app UI including Web Developers, Graphic Designers, Mobile App Designers, UI Designers, UX Designers, newbie designers, and freelancers.

This course takes a practical approach without avoiding the technical aspect. Each section is presented through a problem and then the theory is taught to solve the problem. At the end of each section, the concepts are summarized and you can implement them to test your skills.

Define product scope and feature matrix * Understand how to drive user and stakeholder interviews * Master UX Process in a simplified way

Muhammad Ahsan Pervaiz started his Freelance Design Career 10 years ago and learned everything the hard way. He went from scratch to end up working for FORTUNE 500 companies like INTEL, PANASONIC, and Coca Cola. In just 10 years of Serious UI Designing, he made his place on DRIBBBLE. Working with Art Directors from Coca Cola and Project Managers from the UK, he learned a lot in a short period of time. He has also Improved User Experience of UK GP Tools Mobile App, few Games and e-commerce websites and created new Design patterns for showing passwords safely in password fields. Muhammad has also Worked from App Icon Design to App UI Design, from wire-frames, prototypes and Mockups Design. He has a hunger for perfecting User Interface from all aspects. Being a multi-talented person who has won a Gold Medal and a nation-wide Poster Design competition from PANASONIC many Landing Page design contests on 99designs. Having worked with clients all over the world mostly from the USA, Australia, UK, and United Arab Emirates has taught him a lot on how to deal with clients while freelancing and how to present your work to them.

1. Introduction to the UX Process Course

2. User Research and Business Research - Gathering data and making sense of it

3. UX Design Process - Models and Diagrams

4. Information Architecture, Card Sorting, Wireframes Prototypes and Detailed Specs

5. Usability Testing and Development Phase

6. Whats Next