UX Design for Web Developers (Udemy.com)

Cut through complexities of web centered designs, build interactive, mobile friendly sites with UX design best practices

Created by: Packt Publishing

Produced in 2016

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What you will learn

  • Understand the important concepts of human psychology, HCI, design and product thinking that make up UX
  • Build a website structure keeping in check user flows and sitemaps
  • Exploit wireframes and build a solid one for responsive web design
  • Get to grips with UX best practices and incorporate them in your web design
  • Apply heuristics and usability to create a successful web plan
  • Learn how to build a clickable wireframe prototype to enhance responsiveness
  • Apply user testing and design iteration to ensure smooth web experience

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Overall Score : 78 / 100

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Course Description

User experience (UX) design is a theoretical understanding of howusers interact with websites. The major challenge developers building acompany website face is finding the right balance that fulfils theobjectives of the company as well as the needs of their users. A pooruser experience leads to losing out on customers and in turn the companylosing out on money.
User experience design underpins all major decisions taken by webdesigners when laying out web pages. It is governed by fundamentalprinciples and practical approaches including wireframing,bootstrapping, and even pen and paper designs that gives an indicationabout the user experience that a successful site needs to offer to itsusers.
UX Design for Web Developers is a breakthrough guide that reveals thefundamental rules that govern how most people read and work withwebsites, through the process of redesigning a mobile friendly website.
We'll start off our journey by understanding why we need UX, how UXcame to be, and where it fits in the business and web development. We'llexplore the fundamental skills for structuring and defining a websitealong with content strategy. We'll take a look at a variety of mediatouch points that have potential to engage and influence your audience'sexperience.
With an overall review of some of the best practices of UX designwe'll start building our application with screens that allow us to thinkabout the interactions. We'll touch down on the important concept ofsetting up wireframes and fix the loophole of static application bybuilding a simple clickable, prototype using the Invision tool. We'llcomplete our journey with a finished website plan ready for testing andfeedback.
By the end of this course, you will gain the ability to think like a UX designer, through engaging human centered design practices, UX methodologies, useful UX tricks, as well as skills required for interactive web designing.
About The Author

Chris R Becker is an imaginative and creative interactiondesigner / UX designer / Design researcher and educator. A conceptualthinker, he has the ability to design across media platforms forsolutions within experience design, interaction, informationarchitecture, business and brand strategy, web and app design,advertising, systems design, and print. He is organized and passionatefor following design problems from concept to finished product. He isalso well versed in prototyping, design research, human-centered designmethodologies, and user testing for taking ideas from the drawing boardto the real world. He is competent in pre-press and production and isnot afraid to get his hands dirty, with a strong communicationbackground through positions in versed industries.
Chris teaches at the Loyola Marymount University, UCLA Extension& Art Center College of Design. His clients include Vitasigns,Apple, Beats by Dre, Nissan, VW, STEAM Carnival, Theranos,CB2, Men's Wearhouse, Hyundai, Toyota, and more.
Who this course is for:
  • This video course is a complete package for web developers who are interested in gaining a foundation, or growing an understanding of user experience for the web.

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Instructor Details

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Packt has been committed to developer learning since 2004. A lot has changed in software since then - but Packt has remained responsive to these changes, continuing to look forward at the trends and tools defining the way we work and live. And how to put them to work.
With an extensive library of content - more than 4000 books and video courses -Packt's mission is to help developers stay relevant in a rapidly changing world. From new web frameworks and programming languages, to cutting edge data analytics, and DevOps, Packt takes software professionals in every field to what's important to them now.
From skills that will help you to develop and future proof your career to immediate solutions to every day tech challenges, Packt is a go-to resource to make you a better, smarter developer.

Packt Udemy courses continue this tradition, bringing you comprehensive yet concise video courses straight from the experts.



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Reviews

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By Bill Jones

Coding is one thing, but creating a user experience is often something I'm not the very best at. I really enjoyed this course, it really captures the user experience and walks you over a lot of important key concepts that you'll certainly earn your moneys worth with learning. I recommend this course to anyone looking to improve UI design and making their site more appealing to the end user.

By Ruben Oliva Ramos

This a great course, it covers all the necessary for programmers who are specialized in this áreas.

UX Design for Web Developers is a breakthrough guide that reveals the fundamental rules that govern how most people read and work with websites, through the process of redesigning a mobile friendly website.

By the end of this course, you will gain the ability to think like a UX designer, through engaging human centered design practices, UX methodologies, useful UX tricks, as well as skills required for interactive web designing.

By Perry Nally

Great information related to design fundamentals and website design. Loved the course, not too fast, not too slow. The speaker is clear and understandable. This course will help any person needing to gain better insight into create excellent website designs. Very impressed with the depth of information given.

By Bob Buechel

So far a good high level intro. But the quality of the delivery is a bit low compared to other courses. Often the audible instruction doesn't match the slide content being presented. So either need to listen with eyes closed or read with sound off to be able to focus. It's still early in the course. Will see if the course itself proves to be a "not so good" example of UX.

By George Meehan

Instructor sounded boring and made the content uninteresting and mundane.

By Tim Crothers

Really thorough coverage of UX design. The course is easy to follow and moves along at a good pace. I enjoyed the regular examples the instructor used.

By Starbac S.r.l.

noioso e per nulla stimolante

By Warakorn Kidkumnuan

Great Course.

By Alex Spelucín

I like how he started to explain why UX has a lot of backgrounds and gave tools from the beginning. The volume of the voice it's kind of low though.

By Luz Garay

I'm kind of torn about this course. The course did have some good information, and it gave me a pretty good jumping off point for areas to look into further surrounding UX. However, while the first two sections seemed promising, once we got to the third section the organization got a little muddled. The videos seemed to jump back and forth a little too much for me. I kept getting confused, thinking that the subject was done and felt like it left me hanging, but then a video or two later he came back to the same thing.

My other issue was that some of the videos did not seem synced to the audio, so while I was listening to the instructor and watching something else on the screen I started losing the flow of what he was talking about. I was a little disappointed in the organization of the course as a whole, but as I said, there was some good information in there.

The course is very heavy in Adobe Illustrator, so if you are unfamiliar with that software, you may want to get a free trial and play around with it before beginning the course.

By William Oliver

This is a great course that covers the complete domain of UX design from analyzing the empathy of the user to a complete clickable wireframe. As good as this course is there is no resources that accompany this course which makes it challenging to follow at times. Unfortunately the most challenging part of following along comes in understanding the problem domain of the case study. You get the gist but not the in depth feel of the problem. Some of the links are also dated but they don't detract as much as the lack of an in depth understanding of the problem domain.

You do get an adequate feel for how to build a complete site map, user flow paths, wireframing, and where to go to build a clickable model. All in all its worth the fascinating journey that Chris takes you on through the entire UX design process.

Keep in mind though to get the most out of this course you will have to construct and analyze the models he builds yourself.

I found this course fascinating and I learned a lot but I'm new to UX design so fro me this course contains great references, a fascinating case study to follow along with, and an in depth overview of how to structure a good UX solution for a website. I'd give it 5 stars but it lacks what I feel are requisite handouts that clarify the problem domain and assist in understanding the philosophy behind the development process.

By Vijaya Kurada

Instructor is clear and engaging. Course is well organized in a structured manner. A real life example is used through out to analyze and improve the design upon. The most important aspects of the webdesign; content and the transaction flow are very well emphasized.