User Experience (UX) Design Training for Successful Software Development

Recognizing the user

• Exploring the reality of the user
• Assessing what the audience values
• Deriving the critical details that drive the UX design
• Prioritizing your personas

Writing scenarios

• Characteristics of a useful scenario
• Assessing the user's mental model
• Identifying the user's gratification point

Establishing context

• Stepping back to look at the complete experience
• Creating a scenario from the task and the context
• Recognizing the nature of the mobile UX

Architecting UI structure

• Categorizing to develop labeling systems
• Drafting the conceptual design

Testing your architecture

• Enriching your information artifacts
• Specifying the navigation map
• Integrating search and browse

Leveraging the modeling process

• Creating the conceptual model
• Generating options for the initial design
• Distinguishing between low-fidelity and high-fidelity mock-ups

Dealing with complex tasks

• Constructing complex interactions
• Guiding users with feedback and feedforward
• Making complex information accessible
• Leveraging location cuing in the UI design
• Applying the three-step error handling pattern

Integrating UX design patterns

• Applying the three perspectives: interactive, emotional, environmental
• Selecting UX design patterns based on user expectations and interaction vocabulary
• Guiding users with feedback and feedforward

Assembling a low-fidelity model

• The role of sketches, wireframes and storyboards
• Implementing the sketch
• Building wireframes with key components of the interface
• Documenting decisions to deliver stakeholder value

Addressing the mobile context

• Integrating the features of the mobile experience into a genuinely mobile design
• Fashioning tasks in the mobile context

Developing a mobile design

• Adjusting for the impact of ubiquity and pervasiveness
• Taking advantage of options in mobilizing applications

Prototyping your UI

• Working with prototypes
• Uniting usability, human factors, and stakeholder needs
• Applying the three perspectives to generate the initial design
• Writing interaction scripts to identify UX barriers

Developing a high-fidelity design

• Composing the interactive experience
• Implementing embedded and supplemental navigation

Preparing for testing

• The role of usability testing in refining the UX design
• Preparing for usability tests based on goals

Performing usability tests

• Conducting tests that provide concrete direction
• Analyzing the results to revise the design