Intro to User Experience (UX)

This 1-day Intro to UX course will be held on Saturday, March 5th. Class will run from 9am to 2:30pm, with a 30-minute break for lunch.

At its core, User Experience (UX) is defined as how someone feels about using a product, system, or service. Regardless of what we’re designing--a website, an Android app, or a toaster--we all strive to make our designs useful, easy to use, and enjoyable to use. But how exactly do we make something useful, easy to use, and enjoyable? How do we know if the target audience is having a good or bad experience? This class will arm you with the essential tips to find those answers.

This class is for anyone who makes (or wants to learn how to make) websites, mobile apps, or other software. If you’re a developer, a designer, a project manager, a content creator, or something else, you can integrate UX research and design into your practice.

By the end of this class, you’ll also learn tips and techniques to address the following:

• Fundamental concepts of user experience design

• How to find out who your users are

• Creating user personas

• Identifying usability problems and prioritizing solutions

• How to design and run usability tests

• Getting useful feedback from your users

• Information Architecture and interaction design

• Where UX fits with project management methodologies

• And more!

This is a hands on course which will give you actionable tools to get started with user experience in your work day!

Tech Requirements:

• Your laptop. Note: A netbook or tablet is NOT a substitute.

If you have any questions prior to registering, please contact us at rdu@girldevelopit.com

Refund Policy: Your payment of $60 guarantees your seat in the entire course. Please note that we cannot issue refunds, since there's an overhead to issuing refunds via Meetup.com and we already offer the workshops at such a low cost. We put proceeds into the chapter fund, which we use as our scholarship fund.

Other Disclaimers: Our program and curriculum are geared toward adults over the age of 18; at this time we do not accept minors as students in our courses and workshops.

Your teachers: Melissa Eggleston

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As a UX researcher and content strategist, Melissa Eggleston helps start-ups, non-profits and other organizations craft memorable digital experiences. In addition to teaching for GDI, Melissa serves on committees for the Triangle UXPA and the Content Strategy Alliance. Previously she worked for Duke University and Bloomberg News. Melissa gained her UX and content skills at the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Journalism, where she received her Master's degree.

Julie Grundy

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Julie Grundy, information architect, is the UX and content strategy arm of the Duke Web Services team. With a background in communications, Grundy brings creativity and passion to craft a seamless user experience that meets the client’s objectives. Starting with a mobile-first approach, she works closely with clients to discover project goals and translates them into functional requirements and specs for the development team. She is the Communications and Marketing Director for Triangle User Experience Professionals Association, co-creator of the Ladies that UX Durham chapter, and loves sharing about the UX field.