Essentials of User Experience (UX) Design
User-centered design process
Competitive analysis
Stakeholder interview
Interaction design
Communicating design
Working with Agile teams
Multiscreen design
User research
Usability testing and assessment
Business goals and stakeholder requirements
Contextual inquiry
Waterfall and Agile methodologies
Persona development
Affinity diagrams
Heuristic evaluation
Storyboarding
UI design elements
Wireframing
Paper prototyping
Rapid prototyping
Information architecture
Diagramming and Prototyping for UX
Five types and five principles of prototyping
Responsive, adaptive and mobile-first design
Venn diagrams used in UX
Content ecosystem
Value of diagramming
Affinity diagrams
Design process
Customer journey maps
Customer experience maps
Task analysis and user flows
Functional and visual fidelity
Usability testing
Feasibility
UX honeycomb
UX wheel concept videos
Visual Design Principles
Gestalt theory to visual communication
Eight graphic design principles
Imagery and typography to elicit emotion
Design research into key findings
Ideas to create optimal visual communication
Design of a logo and branding/stationery systems
Five visual design principles used for legible web-type
Color theory across print and digital media
Web accessibility standards to create a color palette
Visual design principles to UI
Five-step UI-design process
Different characteristics of UI and UX design
Explore copyright laws
Mood boards
Poster and web design
Visual content organization
Modular grids
Web grids
User Research for UX
Research plans
Moderator goals
Recruiting/sourcing
Legal considerations
Contextual inquiry
Accessibility and ethics
Persona development
Research presentation
Heuristic evaluations
Cognitive walkthroughs
UX research in the organizational context
Usability vs. user experience
Quantitative vs. qualitative methods
Mixed methods to understanding users
Ethnography research
Diary studies to understand user behaviors
Synthesize, create and plan online surveys
Survey findings with stakeholders to create buy-in
Research questions and methods
Interaction with participants and observers for quality data collection
Iteration accompanied with user research to product development
Introduction to eye tracking in UX research
Engagement with internal stakeholders and external clients
Information Architecture (IA) and Content Strategy
Planning phase of content strategy (CS)
Importance of IA for business, process, and stakeholders
User testing to understand user needs and behaviors
Best practices on design decisions
UX content strategy guiding concepts
Introduction to content discovery, audits and analysis
Content inventory and interaction behaviors
Company user engagement
Voice and tone assessment
Content management systems (CMS)
Mental models and use cases
Synthesize user findings to create sitemap
SEO and accessibility
Audience engagement
Card sorting
Labels, tags and taxonomies
Tree tests
Wayfinding
User-Interface (UI) Design
User-centered design
Prototyping
Visual information design
The principles and psychology of UI design
Best practices for solving big and small problems
Microinteractions: crucial, small moments
Sketching, wireframing, and facilitating dialog
Crafting UI: scale, color, emphasis, organization, motion
Design systems: patterns and guidelines
Refining UI for the greatest emotional impact
Positioning yourself for a design career
Core principles of UI
How UI and UX both contribute to solving human problems
The differences between B2B/enterprise applications and B2C applications
Why sketching the content and function of UI is a critical step in the design process
How to create meaning using the Gestalt Principles
How to create a basic style guide and pattern library
How to communicate the details of your design to the developers who will be building it
Positioning yourself to enter the UX/UI design field
How to create an effective portfolio of UI design work
