Introduction to User Expericne, UX Roles and how to be a UX Designer
  • What's the difference in UX and UI Design?
  • Can I be a UX Designer?
  • Different roles of UX Designers
  • Important Message from Instructor
  • Major parts of every UX Design
  • Download course Resources and PDF Notes
Human Centered Design, Double Diamond Model of Design and Root Cause analysis
  • What is Human Centered Design (HCD)?
  • What is Agile UX? (Student Request Headshot Video)
  • Double Diamond Model of Design by Don Norman
  • Using Root Cause Analysis in UX Design
  • Seven Stages of Action by Don Norman
  • 5 second Usability test
  • Perform 5-second Usability test and submit your findings
  • UX Starter Quiz
Principles & Concepts of User Experience, Usability and Interaction Design
  • What are Affordances, anti-affordances and Signifiers?
  • Examples of Affordances and Signifiers
  • Affordances & Signifiers explained → Headshot Video
  • What is Mapping and Natural Mapping?
  • Conceptual and Mental Models in UX
  • Working memory and our attention span
  • Examples of Working Memory and attention
  • Recognition rather than recall
  • Examples of Recognition rather than recall
  • How User Expectations actually work?
  • User Expectations example → Headshot Video
  • Examples of User Expectations
  • Limits of Peripheral Vision
  • Examples of limited Peripheral Vision
  • What is Context of Use in User Experience?
  • Explanation of Context of use → Headshot Video
  • Why Stakeholders are as important as Users?
  • What is Information Architecture? (Headshot Video)
  • Examples of Information architecture (Navigation best practices)
Human Behavior Patterns, Decision making, scanning patterns and Change Blindness
  • Human laziness, Decision Paralysis and reading pattern
  • Human Decision making → How Old and New Brain works?
  • Humans hate change
  • Our Goals and Change Blindness
  • Examples of Human behavior, Decision Paralysis and why we hate change
  • Examples of F & Z reading patterns and why humans don't like barriers
Designing for Humans → How to design better products for humans
  • Discoverability → Can your users discover your product's features
  • Find discoverability problem within any App or Website
  • Learnability → Can your users learn to use your product easily
  • Feedback → Do users know what is happening or just happened?
  • Examples of Visual and Audio Feedback
  • Feedback within the context → Walmart Example
  • Consistency in Design & Function with Examples
  • Constraints and how to use them to improve UX
  • What are Slips & Mistakes and how to avoid them?
  • Designing for errors with Examples
  • User always in control with Examples
  • Using Grouping and Chunking to improve UX
  • Physical & Mental limitations of Humans
How Developers can improve User Experience?
  • Using Design Patterns → Don't re-invent the wheel
  • Don't let users think → Do heavy calculation yourself
  • Why Users always need Speed and when to use Delays?
  • Power of Smart Defaults & Suggestion
  • Guiding and Training Users at every step
  • Reduce number of barriers to entry for Users
  • Use Natural language rather than codes
  • Examples of Natural language or Converstational Forms
  • Timing of notifications and our perception
  • Using Google Analytics to know more about Users
  • Data driven Design and Anticipatory Design with examples
  • Resources & Additional Links → UX for Beginners course
  • Case Study : Find and solve UX & Usability problems in Medical GpTools App
  • Case Study Solution → GPtools App
  • What to do NEXT?
  • BONUS LECTURE