User Experience Design Fundamentals
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User Experience Design Fundamentals

Design Web Sites and Mobile Apps that Your Users Love and Return to Again and Again with UX Expert Joe Natoli.

Created by Joe Natoli
10 hours
Video Content
53
Lectures
114,265
Students
4.5
Rating
4.5
(114,265 students enrolled)

What you'll learn

Understand user experience design and why it's important
Understand the elements of user experience
Understand how the elements of user experience work together
Understand strategy as an element of user experience
Understand the research process
Identify business goals, and user needs
Understand scope as an element of user experience
Create a functional specification
Learn how to develop content requirements
Learn to prioritize specs and requirements
Understand structure as an element of user experience
Architect information effectively
Understand organizing principles for digital media
Understand skeleton as an element of user experience
Understand navigation design
Create an effective information design
Learn to create wireframes
Understand surface as an element of user experience
Learn visual design principles
Understand contrast and uniformity
Learn the best use of color and typography
Understand A/B testing processes
Learn resources available to assist with User Experience Design Process

Course Content

8 sections • 53 lectures • 09:55:59 total length

What is User Experience Design?

4 lectures • 48:56

Introduction: a UXD Parable04:24
What UXD Isn't15:18
What UXD Is14:24
Why Should We Care About UXD?14:50

Understanding the Elements of User Experience

3 lectures • 33:03

The Elements of User Experience09:08
Exploring the Elements of User Experience14:18
How the Elements Work Together09:37

Using the Elements - Strategy

8 lectures • 44:59

The Research Process07:57
Identifying Business Goals04:19
Identifying B2B User Needs05:03
Identifying B2C User Needs05:45
Three Crucial Questions06:54
+3 more lectures

Using the Elements - Scope

7 lectures • 02:03:32

Defining Scope37:37
Functional Specifications21:43
Content Requirements29:04
Generating Effective Requirements21:56
Prioritizing Specs & Requirements06:14
+2 more lectures

Using the Elements - Structure

7 lectures • 01:03:07

Defining Structure08:52
Interaction Design32:52
Information Architecture08:20
Organizing Principles04:12
Roles and Processes05:43
+2 more lectures

Using the Elements - Skeleton

8 lectures • 02:02:01

Defining the Skeleton10:22
Interface Design20:29
Navigation Design18:26
Convention and Metaphor13:36
Information Design30:09
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Using the Elements - Surface

8 lectures • 01:36:30

Defining the Surface19:58
Visual Design Principles31:41
Following the Eye07:33
Contrast and Uniformity07:29
Consistency11:02
+3 more lectures

Takeaways and Resources

8 lectures • 01:03:51

Things to Remember03:04
Tools of the Trade16:29
Wireframing and Prototyping Software05:08
A/B Testing Software03:20
Content Inventory Software07:13
+3 more lectures

Description

Are your web conversion rates low? Do you know whether your web site is effective at meeting your goals?  Do users get "stuck" and aren't able to complete the tasks they want to?  Are your forms effective? How can your mobile app be improved?
 
It's becoming easier and easier to create web sites and mobile apps-- But harder and harder to measure the effectiveness of these applications. In Joe Natoli's well-designed course User Experience Design Fundamentals you'll learn how to create effective web sites, mobile sites and mobile applications that encourage conversions and leave users wanting more.
 
It's not enough to simply have a web presence -- you must have a web presence that's effective to be successful.  In this dynamic course Joe will expand on Jesse James Garrett's pioneering model of the critical elements of user experience -- strategy, scope, structure, skeleton and surface. As you learn you'll be able to apply the knowledge Joe teaches in dynamic lab exercises-- and later to your own work as a developer or designer.
 
If you're a designer moving into a more complex digital world or a developer who has to occasionally function as a designer as well, this course is for you. You'll feel more confident as you make design related decisions about layout, color, information, design and typography after completing this exciting course. 

Who this course is for:

  • Web Designers
  • Mobile Designers
  • Web Developers
  • Engineers
  • Entrepreneurs
  • Business Owners
  • Students
  • Anyone who wants to make more effective web sites and mobile sites

This course includes:

  • 10 hours on-demand video
  • 00
  • Access on mobile and TV
  • Full lifetime access
  • Certificate of completion

Instructor

Joe Natoli

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