User Experience (UX)- The Ultimate Guide to Usability and UX

User Experience (UX): The Ultimate Guide to Usability and UX, available at $69.99, has an average rating of 4.48, with 157 lectures, 10 quizzes, based on 6614 reviews, and has 23138 subscribers.

You will learn about Bake UX into your workflow by following a proven, user centred design framework. Plan field visits and user interviews to uncover user needs. Moderate a usability test and prioritise the observations. Create personas, user stories, red routes and user journey maps. Uncover and describe users’ mental models. Choose appropriate schemes for classifying and organising information. Design and conduct online and offline card sorting sessions. Select appropriate user interface design patterns. Develop cheap, throwaway prototypes to get quick and frequent feedback from your users. Create user interface designs that exploit universal principles of visual design. Design usability tests to measure time on task, success rate and user satisfaction. Evaluate the usability of systems by applying usability heuristics. Prepare for the BCS Foundation Certificate in User Experience. This course is ideal for individuals who are Anyone who wants to transition from their current job role to a career in user experience. or User researchers or designers who want to build their user experience portfolio by applying their skills to a real world design project. or Software developers who want to learn techniques for designing more engaging systems. or Project managers and Scrum Masters who want a full lifecycle process for introducing usability into their design project. or Interface designers who want to learn methods for testing and evaluating their designs. or Web site designers who want to understand the principles of human-centred design. or Marketing managers who want to find out about the business and brand benefits of user experience. or Business analysts who want quick and effective tools for communicating requirements of users. It is particularly useful for Anyone who wants to transition from their current job role to a career in user experience. or User researchers or designers who want to build their user experience portfolio by applying their skills to a real world design project. or Software developers who want to learn techniques for designing more engaging systems. or Project managers and Scrum Masters who want a full lifecycle process for introducing usability into their design project. or Interface designers who want to learn methods for testing and evaluating their designs. or Web site designers who want to understand the principles of human-centred design. or Marketing managers who want to find out about the business and brand benefits of user experience. or Business analysts who want quick and effective tools for communicating requirements of users.

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Summary

Title: User Experience (UX): The Ultimate Guide to Usability and UX

Price: $69.99

Average Rating: 4.48

Number of Lectures: 157

Number of Quizzes: 10

Number of Published Lectures: 154

Number of Published Quizzes: 10

Number of Curriculum Items: 167

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 164

Original Price: $69.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

Bake UX into your workflow by following a proven, user centred design framework.

Plan field visits and user interviews to uncover user needs.

Moderate a usability test and prioritise the observations.

Create personas, user stories, red routes and user journey maps.

Uncover and describe users’ mental models.

Choose appropriate schemes for classifying and organising information.

Design and conduct online and offline card sorting sessions.

Select appropriate user interface design patterns.

Develop cheap, throwaway prototypes to get quick and frequent feedback from your users.

Create user interface designs that exploit universal principles of visual design.

Design usability tests to measure time on task, success rate and user satisfaction.

Evaluate the usability of systems by applying usability heuristics.

Prepare for the BCS Foundation Certificate in User Experience.

Who Should Attend

Anyone who wants to transition from their current job role to a career in user experience.

User researchers or designers who want to build their user experience portfolio by applying their skills to a real world design project.

Software developers who want to learn techniques for designing more engaging systems.

Project managers and Scrum Masters who want a full lifecycle process for introducing usability into their design project.

Interface designers who want to learn methods for testing and evaluating their designs.

Web site designers who want to understand the principles of human-centred design.

Marketing managers who want to find out about the business and brand benefits of user experience.

Business analysts who want quick and effective tools for communicating requirements of users.

Target Audiences

Anyone who wants to transition from their current job role to a career in user experience.

User researchers or designers who want to build their user experience portfolio by applying their skills to a real world design project.

Software developers who want to learn techniques for designing more engaging systems.

Project managers and Scrum Masters who want a full lifecycle process for introducing usability into their design project.

Interface designers who want to learn methods for testing and evaluating their designs.

Web site designers who want to understand the principles of human-centred design.

Marketing managers who want to find out about the business and brand benefits of user experience.

Business analysts who want quick and effective tools for communicating requirements of users.

2023 Edition.

You’ve just landed on Udemy’s highest rated course on user experience (UX). Thousands of user researchers and designers have used this course to kick-start their career in UX. You can do it, too.

Gain hands-on practice in all the key areas of UX— from interviewing your users through to prototyping and usability testing your designs.

Build a UX portfolio to boost your job prospects as you complete five real-world sample projects.

Gain industry-recognised certification by preparing for the BCS Foundation Certificate in User Experience.

UX Mastery reviewed dozens of online courses in UX, but they gave just one course 10/10: this one.

Build Your UX Portfolio As You Work Through 5 User Research and Design Projects.

The sample projects in the course include:

Find my pet: a product that allows people to track down wayward pets who have got lost.

Tomorrow’s shopping cart: a device that lets customers find any product in a supermarket.

Gift Giver, a gift recommendation system based on an extremely accurate product recommendation technology.

The Citizen Journalist: a system that will allow ordinary people to film events, take photographs, write a story and create a crowdsourced, online newspaper.

The Digital Postcard, an app that will allow users to create and send their own postcard, either by using a photograph they have taken on their phone, or by selecting a professionally taken image of a local beauty spot.

A career in User Experience is one of the most rewarding and challenging jobs in the technology sector. This online training course will give you the background you need to get started.

Prepare for the BCS Foundation Certificate in User Experience.

This course covers the comprehensive syllabus for the BCS Foundation Certificate in User Experience and contains 90 multiple-choice quiz questions to test your knowledge and prepare for the exam. You can take the exam (at extra cost) anywhere in the world at a Pearson Vue exam centre.

Free bonus offer!

Free bonus #1: A 81-page student workbook packed with design exercises, tutorials on UX methods, templates to record user research observations, stencils for UI prototypes, a detailed reading list and a glossary of terms..

Free bonus #2: A 417-page, high quality PDF that contains every slide shown on the course. Print this out, load it on your mobile device or keep it handy on your computer: it’s your choice.

Free bonus #3: A written transcript of every lecture. Comprising 231 pages and 89,236 words, this document is useful if English isn’t your native language or if you just want a readable and searchable version of the course.

Free bonus #4: 90 multiple-choice quiz questions to test your knowledge as you progress through the course.

Free bonus #5: Access to our thriving Facebook group where you can network with fellow students, ask questions and submit assignments for peer review.

Download everything. If you have a slow internet connection, or want to take this course with you on your laptop, smartphone or other portable device, sign up and download all the videos and other course materials now.

When does it start?

Today! This is a self-paced course, so you can start anytime and view the lectures anywhere. Sign up now and you could be watching the first video in under 5 minutes.

How long will it take?

With over 140 lectures and 9 hours of content, this is the most in-depth course on UX you’ll find on Udemy. If you allocate 60-90 mins a day, and do all of the activities, it will take 2-3 weeks to complete. And if you want to spread the course out over a longer period, that’s fine too.

Is it for me?

This course is for you if you want to get hands-on practice in all the stages of user experience. Perhaps you’re starting out in the field of user experience. Or maybe you want to transition from your current job role to a career in UX. Whatever your background, you’ll apply your skills to a real world project that will become the first entry in your UX portfolio.

What if I get stuck?

As you move through each of the steps in the design process, you’ll be able to test your knowledge and compare your work with other students so you can see what “good” looks like. I review the course forum every day and I answer all student questions within 24 hours. So if you struggle with any of the material, just ask a question and I’ll help you out.

Can’t I learn this stuff from a book?

It’s certainly possible to build your user experience expertise by reading books and blog posts, but that can be a slow process and it makes it hard to see the big picture. With this workshop, it’s you and me together working for a client, and I’m giving you the same tips, the same advice, and sharing the same techniques I’ve learned over the years on hundreds of design projects.

What if I don’t like it?

Over 17,000 people have taken this online course and over 90% of students give it 4 or 5 stars, so I’m confident that you’ll love this course. Just in case, I offer a 30-day, no questions asked, money-back guarantee. So sign up today, it’s risk free!

Kick start your career in user experience with this 12-hour, online, video training course.

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Setting the Scene

Lecture 1: Welcome

Lecture 2: Course Objectives

Lecture 3: Student Workbook and Download Pack

Lecture 4: Resources

Lecture 5: The business benefits of user experience

Lecture 6: What is Usability? Product evaluation activity

Lecture 7: Can openers – Demonstration

Lecture 8: Can openers – User Research

Lecture 9: Can openers – Debrief

Lecture 10: The 6 Rules of Usability

Lecture 11: ISO 9241 – A standard for usability

Lecture 12: The Course Roadmap

Lecture 13: Dont skip this lecture

Chapter 2: Going where the action is: Understanding users in context

Lecture 1: Introduction to Section 2

Lecture 2: How usability depends on the “context of use”

Lecture 3: What is a browser?

Lecture 4: What do users want?

Lecture 5: An introduction to contextual inquiry

Lecture 6: Practical field visits, step 1 – Users

Lecture 7: Practical field visits, step 2 – Focus

Lecture 8: Practical field visits, step 3 – Recording

Lecture 9: Practical field visits, step 4 – Notetaking

Lecture 10: Practical field visits, step 5 – Affinity Diagramming and User Story Mapping

Lecture 11: Presenting results as empathy maps and storyboards

Lecture 12: Guerrilla techniques for user research

Lecture 13: Three myths about field visits

Chapter 3: How to get niche quick

Lecture 1: Introduction to Section 3

Lecture 2: Why the average user doesnt exist

Lecture 3: Introduction to Personas

Lecture 4: Walkthrough of a persona case study

Lecture 5: Walkthrough of a persona case, continued

Lecture 6: The benefits of personas

Lecture 7: The pitfalls of personas

Lecture 8: Publicising your personas

Lecture 9: The 7-step persona checklist

Chapter 4: UX Design Activities – Build your UX Portfolio

Lecture 1: Introduction to the Design Activities

Lecture 2: Find My Pet

Lecture 3: Citizen Journalist

Lecture 4: Digital Postcard

Lecture 5: Gift Giver

Lecture 6: Tomorrows Shopping Cart

Lecture 7: Design activity research briefing

Lecture 8: Persona Groups Briefing

Lecture 9: Persona Creation Briefing

Lecture 10: Student work examples – Personas

Chapter 5: What can a London bus teach us about usability?

Lecture 1: Introduction to Section 5

Lecture 2: Red Routes, or why featuritis doesnt work

Lecture 3: The What and Why of Red Routes

Lecture 4: The Flexibility – Usability Trade off

Lecture 5: Prioritising red routes

Lecture 6: Red Routes — Quick Activity

Lecture 7: Student work examples – Red Routes

Lecture 8: How to build bulletproof user stories for agile

Lecture 9: Testing a user story

Lecture 10: Student work examples – User Stories

Chapter 6: Beyond “easy to use”: Measuring the user experience

Lecture 1: Introduction to Section 6

Lecture 2: Introduction to Lean UX

Lecture 3: Problem and Solution Hypothesis Testing

Lecture 4: Defining and measuring usability

Lecture 5: Measuring Effectiveness

Lecture 6: Measuring Efficiency

Lecture 7: Measuring Satisfaction

Lecture 8: The Usability Dashboard

Chapter 7: Site structure and navigation: Finding is the new doing

Lecture 1: Introduction to Section 7

Lecture 2: Introduction – The Elements of User Experience

Lecture 3: Introduction to information architecture

Lecture 4: LATCH – The 5 Hat Racks for organising information

Lecture 5: LATCH – Case Study using BBC iPlayer

Lecture 6: Introduction to card sorting

Lecture 7: Demonstration of an online card sort

Lecture 8: Card sorting data analysis

Lecture 9: Card sorting analysis example

Lecture 10: Semantic matches and faceted navigation

Lecture 11: Trigger words

Chapter 8: Interaction design: Simple rules for designing simple screens

Lecture 1: Introduction to Section 8

Lecture 2: Mental models, conceptual models, affordances and signifiers

Lecture 3: Some examples of mental models

Lecture 4: Skeuomorphic versus Flat design

Lecture 5: User interface design patterns and consistency

Lecture 6: Progressive disclosure

Lecture 7: Choosing the correct user interface control

Lecture 8: Checkboxes, radio buttons and Fitts Law

Lecture 9: The Drop Down Menu – The UI control of last resort?

Lecture 10: Expectations about web page layout

Lecture 11: The Aesthetic Usability Effect and the Contrast Principle

Instructors

David Travis
Author of Think Like a UX Researcher

Rating Distribution

1 stars: 18 votes

2 stars: 73 votes

3 stars: 500 votes

4 stars: 1969 votes

5 stars: 4054 votes

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