What is User Experience Design?
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Introduction: a UXD Parable
This video will give you a brief description about what User Experience Design accomplishes and how it works. You will be told a story, which will help illustrate how important User Experience Design is to your audience.
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Explained in this video, is what UXD is not. The instructor will cover the common misconceptions of UXD.
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Your instructor will cover the formal definition of what UXD consists of, along with why it's important. The key points as to what UXD is all about will be explained.
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Why Should We Care About UXD?
This video will explain why UXD is imperative and how it can greatly affect how others perceive your project
Understanding the Elements of User Experience
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The Elements of User Experience
This first video of chapter 2 will explain how you can gear your website and/or app towards the group of people you are targeting. By using simple methods, you can ensure that your project will be a success.
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Exploring the Elements of User Experience
You will be prompted to strategize in this video. You will be shown how to ask yourself the proper questions in order to enhance your user's experience.
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How the Elements Work Together
This video will go into depth about how the elements explained in this chapter are necessary for UXD.
Using the Elements - Strategy
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This video will outline the steps that need to be taken in order to properly research how to execute your strategy.
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Identifying Business Goals
Your instructor will cover specific questions you need to ask yourself in order to identify your business goals. This will be greatly helpful in the strategy element of UXD.
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Identifying B2B User Needs
Learn how to create a "value loop" in order to engage your user. You will be shown to to identify what they need when visiting your website or app.
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Identifying B2C User Needs
This video will explain what B2C means and how to properly engage consumers.
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This video will prompt you to look at what is worth doing and what is a waste of your time when it comes to UXD.
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Learn how your user first views your website or app and how to engage them based on what they are looking for.
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This video will give an overview of what was covered in this chapter. Your instructor summarizes what the strategy element entails.
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This video will challenge you to come up with a strategy for your project and prioritize your goals.
Using the Elements - Scope
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This extremely in-depth and detailed video will explain to you what scope is and how it will enhance UXD.
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Functional Specifications
By using functional specifications you will be able to differentiate between software tasks and information.
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This video covers all types of content including writing and images, and shows you how important it is to UXD
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Generating Effective Requirements
Joe will explain to you how to create requirements in this video.
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Prioritizing Specs & Requirements
This video will explain how to prioritize your requirements, what gets included, and what questions you need to ask yourself in order to benefit your business.
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This video will go over what was covered in this chapter, along with defining scope, and how to generate requirements.
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This exercise will prompt you to come up with a product evolution plan in order to implement the scope element successfully.
Using the Elements - Structure
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This video will define what structure is and cover topics including categories of information, interaction design, and information architecture.
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Joe will cover what's important in interaction design. He will go over 5 principles to enhance your users' experience and how they interact with your website and/ or app. He will also go over various other key points in interaction design.
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This video will show you how the information with your site or app should be structured so your users will be able to navigate through it with ease.
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Learn how to organize your site by using nodes, facets, and specific rules of thumb.
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This video will illustrate how to assign functions for each page within your website or app.
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This video will go over what was covered in this chapter and discuss the key points of structure.
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Instructor Joe challenges you to look at how information is accessed across different platforms. In this lab, you will learn how different forms of media have different layouts and ways of delivering information.
Using the Elements - Skeleton
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Joe will discuss what the skeleton element includes, such as interface design, navigation design, and information design.
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Interface design includes predictability, simplicity, and intuitiveness. This video will demonstrate how to properly execute your interface design.
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In this video, you will be shown the importance of navigation design and how to administer it effectively on your website or app. You will learn multiple ways in which this can be done, including how to design your site map.
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This video will explain what your users are used to seeing and how that can effect their experience on your website or app. Your instructor will also cover how to show your users how to do whatever it is they need to do while they are on your site.
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Your instructor Joe will explain how important the quality of the content on your website or app is, along with how to properly organize it.
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This video will explain what wireframes are, why they are important, and how to make them look similar across all platforms
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This video will go over what was covered in this chapter and discuss the key points of the skeleton element.
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This lab will have you critically thinking about how a large website is structured, and will offer insight as to how your website or app should be set up.
Using the Elements - Surface
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This video will help you understand what the surface element of UXD is. Visible language and organization are covered in this video.
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Alignment, proximity, repetition and contract will be explained in this video and how they are pertinent to the surface element.
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Learn where your user's eye goes first when they visit your website or app. This video will show you the F-Pattern, as well as the Z-Pattern. This will help you determine how to layout your project.
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Contrast and uniformity work hand-in-hand to enhance a user's experience. Learn how to grab the user's attention while not overwhelming them in this video.
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Consistency in visual design allows users to build an accurate mental model of the way the site, app, or system works. Learn how to properly execute consistency in this video.
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This video will show you exactly how color and font can play a huge role in UXD. These features can make or break your project, and by determining how to properly use these tools, you will have success with your website or app.
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This video will give you an overview of what was covered in this chapter. Your instructor summarizes what the surface element entails.
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This lab will ask you to view other websites and analyze them by asking critical questions about the appearance. This will help you in designing your project.
Takeaways and Resources
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Instructor Joe will give you some of his final thoughts on UXD and briefly summarize the course. He will go over the elements along with what needs to be done in order to execute a successful UXD.
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This video will show you how to choose your tools and techniques, along with how certain strategies work to your (and your user's) advantage.
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Wireframing and Prototyping Software
In this helpful video, Joe will provide website which will assist you in the wireframing and prototyping of your site. They are all extremely easy to use and they each have their own advantages.
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This video will explain how and why you need to test your website. Your instructor will also provide different websites that specialize in A/B testing.
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Content Inventory Software
This video explains the importance of content inventory and also points out great software that can help you with taking your inventory.
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User Testing/Feedback Software
Instructor Joe will tell you about why you need to gather feedback from your users and will also show you some great software that will assist you in conducting your testing.
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Knowing how your website is performing is essential in making it a success. This video will show you how to properly monitor your site's popularity in search engines by using different analytics software.
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Educational/Information Websites
Wrapping up this course, Joe provides you with a few websites that can assist you in furthering your education about UXD.
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Bonus Lecture: Working with Clients and Stakeholders
