User experience (UX) design provides a theoretical understanding of how users interact with websites. Everything humans interact with has an experience associated with it. Some are good, some are bad, but it is only recently that have we begun to consciously design these experiences. We are now at a point in time when experience-design has suddenly exploded into the consciousness of business people and ordinary people all over the world.
This comprehensive 3-in-1 training course is designed to give you a foundation in the concepts User Experience and you will be show various example scenarios that will help you apply UX to your future solutions.
Contents and Overview
This training program includes 3 complete courses, carefully chosen to give you the most comprehensive training possible.
The first course, The Fundamentals of User Experience - a Process for Problem Solving, you start the journey by understanding how UX came to be and where it fits into business and web development. You will look at UX design, quantitative and qualitative observation, problem statement, ideation, brainstorming, wireframes, and prototypes. Moving on, you’ll learn about UX design and Agile development, and will get an understanding of user hypothesis and testing. Finally, you’ll look at the specific opportunities in UX design and how to approach the not-too-distant future.
The second course, UX Design: Understanding User Engagement, you’ll start your journey by looking at human-centered observations, where you will learn different types of observation methods, and also about human-centered design. Next, you will learn to build, design, and test your persona. Moving on, dive into observing user habits and technology, where you will see the difference in good and bad habits and set them up. Finally, you take a look at Human Insights and get started writing your own Insights from a User Point of View.
The third course, UX Design - Understanding the User and Business, you will start off by understanding business and UX design needs. Here you’ll learn about key performance indicators and experience gaps. Further you learn how to go about a problem statement and iterate it. Also get acquainted about user hypotheses and learn about user experience scenarios. Finally, explore the User Journey and Task development, building journey templates, a storyboarding template, and designing storyboarding sketches.
By the end of this training program, you will be well versed with the concepts of User Experience design and will become experts in UX/UI, prototyping, and testing.
About the Authors
Chris R. Becker is an imaginative and creative Sr. UX Designer/ IxD / Design Thinker and Educator. A creative thinker with the ability to design across media platforms from Web to iOS and Android as well as SaaS and service design. A versatile designer and systems thinker with problem solving skills for User Experience Design, Organized and passionate with a passion for following design problems from concept to finished product. Versed in Agile product development methodologies and flexible within waterfall as well he applies LEAN UX methods to rapid prototyping, design research, and user testing for taking ideas from the drawing board to the real world. Chris also Participates in making through Fine Art & Graphic Design background which lends to a variety of creative thinking, design thinking, Human Center Design Research, User Testing, and problem-solving skills. Studies have included courses in Rapid Prototyping, Usability/ Heuristics, Human Centered Design Research, Design Thinking, Painting, Sculpture, Drawing, Print Making, Archetype, Graphic Design, Typography, Systems Theory, Media Theory, Programming, Drawing, Motion,and Art History. His Specialties include: Design Thinking, User Experience Design, Information Architecture, Branding, Identity Design, Conceptual modeling, Rapid Prototyping, User Interface, Brainstorming, Product Design, Advertising, Retail Design, Interactive Art Director, Wireframes, Application GUI Design, Multimedia Presentations, Production Artist, Web Master, Social Media, UX Strategy Development.
