Intro to User Experience (UX)

This 3-day Intro to UX course will meet on Monday evenings, September 18th, 25th, and October 2nd from 7pm-9pm. The $65 payment covers the 6 hour class.

About the class:

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 do not have access to a laptop computer, please email atlanta@girldevelopit.com. GDI Atlanta has loaner laptops for those who do not have access to one.

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

Financial Need:

A limited number of scholarships are available for those with a financial hardship. To apply, click here (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1tQeFIvqNbBOtOt2mRJSVQDqOUbz7PFeMJDzq_mKTkT8/viewform?usp=send_form). Scholarship applicants will be notified shortly after the deadline. Class capacity does not impact scholarship students. Check out this info sheet (https://drive.google.com/a/girldevelopit.com/file/d/0B344HUnWO0EhOFI4SmpWVjE2Yms) about getting course fees covered by your employer.

Refund Policy:

Your payment of $65 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.

About the Teacher:

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Angel Banks specializes in UX strategy and design for enterprise, finance, healthcare, and biotech applications. She currently works as a UX designer at First Data. Angel has a background in project management, product management, and front-end development. Active in the Atlanta tech community, she was a co-organizer of the ATL AngularJS meetup group and is now on the leadership team of Women Who Code Atlanta and as a UX and Coding Mentor at General Assembly.

Teacher Assistants:

Along with the teacher, the class has Teacher Assistants (TAs). TAs are available during class to help troubleshoot any questions and help with exercises. If you are interested in volunteering as a TA for this class, please email atlanta@girldevelopit.com.

Thank you to our host of space, DigitalCrafts coding bootcamp at Atlanta Tech Village!

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All attendees are expected to abide by the Girl Develop It Code of Conduct (https://www.girldevelopit.com/code-of-conduct)