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Topic: User Experience and UX Design
- Lesson: Introduction to User Experience
- Lesson: User Research
- Lesson: Analyze and Identify User Problems
- Lesson: Ideate for Solution
- Lesson: Prototyping and Visual Design
- Lesson: Test and Iterate
- Lesson: Some Instruction to Continue learning
- Assessment: Assessment
Lesson 1
Introduction to User Experience
- Self Learning Duration
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- Lecture Duration
- mins
- Lab Tutorial Duration
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Self learning content
Learn and try to get familiar with content explained in below videos before coming to class.
Mandotory:
Journey into UX design
Optional:
What Is UX Design? - A Full Overview
What Is UX Design?
What is UI vs. UX Design?
Lecture content
This lesson will provide an “Introduction to User Experience” by discussing below sub topics.
- What is UX
- Why it is important
- Difference between UI & UX
Lab and tutorials
Identify and provide example which demostrate scenarios of good user experience or bad user experience.
Describe the reasoning behind your answer.
Lesson 2
User Research
- Self Learning Duration
- mins
- Lecture Duration
- mins
- Lab Tutorial Duration
- mins
Self learning content
Learn and try to get familiar with content explained in below videos before coming to class.
Mandotory:
Uncovering Users' Mental Mode
Optional:
What Is UX Research, And What's Its Purpose?
The UX Research Methods Every Designer Needs To Know
The Top 10 UX Research Tools You Need For User Research
Lecture content
This lesson will discuss about “User Research” by discussing below sub topics.
- What is User Research
- Brief introduction to different User Research Methods (E.g. Interviews, Surveys, etc..)
Lab and tutorials
Your company has asked your team to draft a design for a new Food Delivery mobile app similar to PickMe or UberEats.
But, before starting the design, your team has decided to perform a user research for this.
- Who are the users that you can think of in this scenario?
- Select one user type and prepare a survey to distribute for them.
Lesson 3
Analyze and Identify User Problems
- Self Learning Duration
- mins
- Lecture Duration
- mins
- Lab Tutorial Duration
- mins
Self learning content
Learn and try to get familiar with content explained in below videos before coming to class.
How To Conduct UX Research Analysis (UX Design Guide)
Creating Personas for User Experience Research
What is an Empathy Map?
Customer Journey Map Workshop
Lecture content
This lesson will discuss how to analyze findings from user research and identify user problems by discussing below sub topics.
- Why we need to analyze and what we are trying to find
- Brief introduction to different methods we can use (E.g. Persona, User Journey Maps, etc..)
Lab and tutorials
After the survey you have performed for your Food Delivery app, now you are planning on preparing a Persona and User Journey Map for the user that you have selected in the previous lesson.
- Draft a persona for the selected user.
- Prepare a User Journey Map for the same user.
Lesson 4
Ideate for Solution
- Self Learning Duration
- mins
- Lecture Duration
- mins
- Lab Tutorial Duration
- mins
Self learning content
Learn and try to get familiar with content explained in below videos before coming to class.
What is UX Ideation?
Design Thinking: Ideate
Six Creative Ways To Brainstorm Ideas
Brainstorming Techniques: How to Innovate in Groups
Lecture content
This lesson will discuss process of ideation for solution by discussing below sub topics.
- The approach for Ideation
- What we have consider before ideation
- What we have to consider while ideation
- Brief introduction to different brainstorming methods
Lab and tutorials
In the preparation of designing your Food Delivery app, list down three different purposes that your users required to achieve out of your app.
Lesson 5
Prototyping and Visual Design
- Self Learning Duration
- mins
- Lecture Duration
- mins
- Lab Tutorial Duration
- mins
Self learning content
Learn and try to get familiar with content explained in below videos before coming to class.
Design Thinking: Prototype
Prototyping Why What and How for developers
Intro to Figma - Beginners guide to Figma Basics
Adobe XD Basics | Top 10 Things to know when getting started
Fundamentals of visual design
Lecture content
This lesson will discuss about “Prototyping and Visual Design” by discussing below sub topics.
- The importance of Prototype
- Different methods of prototype (E.g.: High-fidelity and Low-fidelity)
- Different prototyping tools (E.g.: Balsamiq, Adobe XD, etc..)
- Brief introduction on what they have to consider in detail visual design (E.g.: Information Architecture, Typography, Colors, etc..)
Lab and tutorials
Design the login page and the menu page of your Food Delivery app and provide the design.
Sketch drawn in a paper would be enough.
But, if you prefer you could produce it using Figma or Adobe XD.
Lesson 6
Test and Iterate
- Self Learning Duration
- mins
- Lecture Duration
- mins
- Lab Tutorial Duration
- mins
Self learning content
Learn and try to get familiar with content explained in below videos before coming to class.
Usability testing
Usability Testing Tips & Tools: Powerful UX Research Method
Usability Testing w. 5 Users
Usability Test Demo by Steve Krug
Lecture content
This lesson will discuss about “Usability Testing” by discussing below sub topics.
- The importance of Usability Testing
- Different Usability testing methods (E.g.: Guerrilla Testing, Lab Usability testing, etc..)
- Guidelines for usability testing
Lab and tutorials
Look at the purposes that you have listed in the answer of Lesson 4.
Try to achieve these purpose using either PickMe or UberEats.
List down your findings.
- What works as you expected
- What did not work as you expected
Lesson 7 - Optional
Some Instruction to Continue learning
- Self Learning Duration
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- Lecture Duration
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- Lab Tutorial Duration
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Self learning content
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Lecture content
This lesson will discuss about how they can continue mastering the knowledge and skills required as UX Designer.
- Books they can refer
- Articles to read
- Some other courses to that can follow
- Join the online UX communities
- Career Opportunities as a UX Designer
Lab and tutorials
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Assessment
User Experience and UX Design
MCQ assessment (~20 Questions) verifying the understanding of the students in importance of UX and knowledge in “UX Design Process”. Preferably use a gamified assessment tool such as Kahoot.