This document provides an overview of a free UX design mini-course. The course covers topics such as what UX design is and why it matters, user-centered design and the UX design process. The UX design process involves research, analysis, design, production and product launch. User research is key to understanding user needs and goals. Analysis compiles research findings. Design validates ideas through prototypes and gets user feedback. Production implements the design with developers and can include beta testing. The course teaches the core principles of UX design and discusses whether it may be a good career path based on skills like collaboration, problem-solving and empathy.

1. Free UX Design
Mini Course

2. Topics Covered
Is UX Design for you?
What is UX Design and why does it matter?
User Centered Design and UX Design Process
By the end of this course you will have a basic
understanding of UX Design and its core principles

3. What is UX Design
and why does it
matter?
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4. User experience design is a
process of designing a
customers experience with a
product.
What is UX Design?
We want to create a enjoyable
and useful product for users.
Don’t just think UX only applies
to just the digital world

6. Don
Norman
Don Norman coined the
term “User Experience
Design”.
Author of Design of
Everyday Things

7. “I invented the term because I
thought human interface and
usability were too narrow. I
wanted to cover all aspects of
the person’s experience with
the system including industrial
design, graphics, the interface,
the physical interaction, and the
manual. -Don Norman

8. User Experience Honeycomb
Diagram
Findable
Accessible
Usable
Valuable
Useful
Desirable
Credible
By Peter Morville

9. User Centered
Design
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10. User Centered Design is the
process of creating a product
with the user in mind.
What is User Centered
Design?
User behaviors
Goals
Tasks

11. “You’ve got to start with the
customer experience and
work back toward the
technology not the other
way around.” -Steve Jobs

12. UX
Design
Process

13. Research Analysis Design Production
UX Design Process

14. User Research is one of the most important
phases of UX process. It is used to gather
information about our users.
User Research

15. Why
It is valuable because it helps
us understand user needs,
motivations and behaviors.
How
We can gather information
through interviews, surveys,
observations and testing.

16. Analysis is taking everything from the user
research and compiling it all together.
Analysis

17. Why
The results from our research
help funnel our thoughts to why
users do what they do.
How
An analysis can be done
through User personas,
storyboards, card sorting,
scenarios and experience
maps.

18. The design phase helps us validate ideas by
getting feedback from users and refine ideas.
Design

19. Why
As an UX designer you need to
design a functional and usable
product that are centered
around the users goals and
needs.
How
Design is done through the use
of prototypes, wireframes,
mood boards, sitemaps

20. The production phase is where high fidelity
design is created and developers help apply
functionality.
Production

21. Why
The production is what is going to
carry out the project to the end
users. Depending project goals this
could lead to a beta launch to get
more feedback from users.
How
Depending on the roles you might
be the one to work on the user
interface as well or just the UX. You
will have the chance to collaborate
with more of the team. Developers
will implement the functionality to
the UI.

22. Product
Launch

23. Does It All end
There?

24. No

25. There should
Be iterations
Of each phase

26. Things To Consider
Not every project is the same
UX Design is not a linear process
Expect to have to do multiple iterations
Remember to focus on your users needs and
Business goals

27. Is UX Design for
Me?
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28. What should I
Expect?

29. Collaborate &
Communicate
For New
Technologies
Problem SolveThink Outside
The Box
To Learn
Continually
Empathetic
Be Prepared

30. What should I
Do next?

31. Make stuffPen & Paper
Get familiar with
Design principles
Read.Read.READ
Look at other
designs
Meetup
Next Steps…

32. Thanks for
Taking my
Course

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