Essentials of UX Design

Essentials of UX Design is a weekend, accelerated training course—targeted specifically at designers and software professionals who wish to become more knowledgeable in the design process. You will learn practical skills and essentials for making good design decisions quickly and confidently and how to create designs that are intuitive, and delightful.

WHY TAKE THIS COURSE?
If you have ever wondered why customers struggle to use your product, this course is for you. UX (User Experience) is a big deal. The goal of this course is to help you understand the most important and immediately useful techniques and approaches used by successful UX designers. While the material is technology independent, all hands-on labs and exercises can be applied to both desktop and mobile applications.

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TURN REQUIREMENTS INTO SOLUTIONS!
This 16 hour course will teach you how to put a project’s requirements into action and meet key user and business needs. Learn how to:

• Brand a project

• Map out all functional goals

• Work within UI design principles and guidelines

• Make a design intuitive and delightful

• Design tasks, task flows, and pages

• Mobile design and how it differs from desktop design

• Design communication techniques: sketching and prototyping

• Efficiently follow a user-centered design process and utilize best practices to walk away with a well executed product

• And more!

You will also receive keynote walk throughs, coaching and feedback from the instructor through each stage of this course.

This course contains extensive hands-on workshop time.

Upon completion of this course, you will leave with a completed product ready for launch!

DATES & TIMES
Saturday, July 11
Sunday, July 12
9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. both days

REGISTER HERE (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/essentials-of-ux-design-registration-17087098973)

COURSE AGENDA

Why UX (User Experience) Matters

Why UI (User Interface) Matters

Ideation

• How is your idea unique?
• Why are you creating this?

Proper Process
• Goals & objectives listing
• What is required of your project?
• What are you looking to accomplish?
• Persona development
• Understanding data & research
• Functional Map
• Feature rollout plan

Determine Resources Needed & Cost Estimation

• Design
• Development
• Pricing & Total Cost
• Scheduling

Design Branding

• Importance
• Tips
• Exercises
• Critique & Review

Wireframing

• Sketch out ideas
• Paper prototyping

Conduct User Testing & Getting Feedback
(Pre-Digital Design)

• How to test
• How to implement feedback

Defining your UI

• Design principles
• UI guidelines
• Intuitiveness
• Simplicity
• Look and feel
• Create a UI kit

The Design Process

• Task flows
• Design of multiple screens/pages of your project
• Proper setup of your project files & organization
• Proper setup of your PSD file
• Best practices of typography and UX

Evaluation

• Evaluation techniques
• Preparing a usability study
• Performing a usability study
• How to get & give feedback about projects
• Review of course projects and giving actionable next steps

Launch

• How to prepare for your project launch
• How to successfully put your project out there
• Best ways to showcase your work

Leave with Something Tangible

REGISTER HERE (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/essentials-of-ux-design-registration-17087098973)

PREREQUISITES

At least intermediate experience in UX design. This course is optimized for the developer who is looking to efficiently learn the most important design techniques that will help them make better apps. Programming experience is not required to benefit from the design principles and best practices taught in this course.

TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS

To get the most out of the course, participates should bring a Laptop (Windows or Mac) with a working WIFI. You will also need software for making simple drawings or illustrations, including but not limited to: Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Microsoft Word, Apple Pages, Microsoft PowerPoint, Apple Keynote, GIMP, etc. Also bring pencils, paper and a ruler.

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR

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Peter Deltondo, Instructor & Creative Director at GigaSavvy
Peter has been designing and developing websites since age 12. He is the Creative Director at GigaSavvy, which allows him the opportunity to work on a variety of graphic design projects including branding, lettering, typography, print, posters, apparel, and especially web and user experience. Peter contributes to the creative community by helping organize and manage the Creative South Design Conference.