User Experience (UX) Design for Non-UX People (for Mobile Websites)

Course Objectives

What You’ll Learn: Course Objectives
Working in an interactive learning environment, led by our engaging experienced UX practitioner, students attending this course will learn to:
• Grasp the philosophy of UX so that you can apply universal principles immediately
• Understand how users think about program interactions
• Respond best to most UX situations
• Know how to best use UX pros and when to engage them in your projects
• Present even complex information in ways that are understandable
• Comprehend the back-and-forth interactions with users so that programs are simpler
• Explain responsive design and handle the unique usability challenges of mobile devices
• Create UI designs that are simply easier to use
• The role of UX in the organization
• How users think and how that affects our programs
• How to design an entire site to be easy to use
• How to organize content
• Organizing complex data so it can be absorbed
• Improving navigation through signposting, wayfinding, and navigation patterns
• Laying out pages for ease of use
• Managing lists in the best way, including many-to-many relationships
• Describing the negotiation between user and program – making it easy for the user to get data into our program and understand the information coming out.
• Guiding the user through the program
• Getting input from your users in the most intuitive ways
• Mobile devices and responsive design: Best practices of UX on big pages versus spartan devices

Course Prerequisites

This course is geared for Managers, Developers, Analysts, and new usability professionals. There are no technical pre-requisites to attend.

Course Agenda

Session

• Introduction
• Overview of UX
• Overview Lab
• General principles – Making programs easy
• General principles Lab
• What users do – Macro patterns
• What users do Lab
• Information architecture – Presenting data so that users understand it
• Information architecture Lab

Session

• Navigation patterns - How to make it easy to get around
• Navigation patterns Lab
• Organizing each page
• Organizing each page Lab
• Making lists easy to use
• Making lists easy Lab
• Commands – How the user tells us what he wants to do
• Commands Lab

Session

• How to make complex data usable
• Complex data Lab
• Making user input simple
• User Input Lab
• Responsive Design: UX on Mobile Devices
• Responsive Design Lab
• Wrapup

Course Materials

Our robust course materials include much more than a simple slideshow presentation handout.  Student materials include a comprehensive hard-copy course manual, complete with detailed course notes, code samples, diagrams and current reference materials, all directly related to the course at hand, indexed for ease of use. Step-by-step lab instructions, software tutorials and project descriptions are clearly illustrated and commented for maximum learning.