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

0. Introduction

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

1. Why UX Design Is Important

03 - You're already a UX designer
04 - The need for innovative designs
05 - Leveraging new technology
06 - A well-designed app example
07 - The value of good UX design
08 - Obstacles to good design
09 - Starting on the UX path

2. What Makes a Design Good or Bad

10 - Example of a design principle
11 - Design principles - Based in the human brain
12 - Design principles in context
13 - Cognitive design principles
14 - Design principles in the real world
15 - Why crowded screens are bad
16 - How to declutter crowded screens
17 - Bringing it all together

3. Understanding Users and Their Needs

18 - Building a design team
19 - Business needs - Why are you redesigning this app
20 - Business needs - $100 exercise
21 - Choosing users to observe
22 - How to observe users in the wild
23 - Questions to ask users
24 - Static vs. dynamic
25 - Recording and analyzing user observations
26 - Observation exercise
27 - Creating your punch list of design tasks

4. Ideation - Finding, Refining, and Culling Design Ideas

28 - Sketching is the core technique
29 - Innovation and ideation
30 - Embracing constraints for multiple design solutions
31 - Storyboarding
32 - Types of storyboards
33 - Media for storyboards
34 - Storyboarding evaluation
35 - Storyboarding exercise
36 - Beyond storyboarding - Wireframing and illustration
37 - Prototyping
38 - Evaluation phase

5. Helpful Concepts and Techniques for the Design Process

39 - Types of design projects
40 - Dealing with status quo bias
41 - Be bold
42 - Breaking free from the past
43 - The shapes exercise
44 - Seeing the world with new eyes
45 - Dealing with conflict in design evaluation
46 - The economics of UX design
47 - Aesthetics - Reaching an acceptable threshold
48 - When to use a professional designer and how to find one

Conclusion

49 - Next steps

UX Design for Developers

Authors

Billy Hollis