User Experience (UX) Design Training for Successful Software Development

Course 1802

Duration: 3 days
Labs: Yes
Language: English
17 PMI PDUs
Level: Foundation

A well-designed User Interface (UI) results in highly engaged and satisfied users. In this UX Design training course, you will create an optimal User Experience (UX) that merges functionality and usability in both desktop and mobile environments. This User Experience (UX) Design training will help you to understand the value of UX design, the input stakeholders must provide to the process, and what results they can expect. Learn to leverage interaction scripts, information architecture, wireframes, and interactive prototypes to implement an effective UX design process in your organisation.

User Experience (UX) Design Training Delivery Methods

In-Person
Online

User Experience (UX) Design Training Course Benefits

Generate a User Experience (UX) that integrates the needs of the user with the application
Design personas and stories that drive User Interface (UI) design
Leverage models and UX design patterns to develop a functional design
Mold your design to gain acceptance and improve productivity
Test UX designs to determine effectiveness in meeting user goals
Leverage continued support with after-course one-on-one instructor coaching and computing sandbox

Prerequisites

None, though some familiarity with the application development and design process is assumed.

User Experience (UX) Design Training Course Outline

Module 1: Defining UX Design

Creating a design process
Choosing tools for rich and lean UX processes
Building a UX/UI toolbox

Module 2: Crafting Personas and Scenarios

Recognising the user

Exploring the reality of the user
Assessing what the audience values
Deriving the critical details that drive the UX design
Prioritising your personas

Writing scenarios

Characteristics of a useful scenario
Assessing the user's mental model
Identifying the user's gratification point

Establishing context

Stepping back to look at the complete experience
Creating a scenario from the task and the context
Recognising the nature of the mobile UX

Architecting UI structure

Categorising to develop labelling systems
Drafting the conceptual design

Testing your architecture

Enriching your information artefacts
Specifying the navigation map
Integrating search and browse

Module 3: Creating a Static Design

Leveraging the modelling process

Creating the conceptual model
Generating options for the initial design
Distinguishing between low-fidelity and high-fidelity mock-ups

Dealing with complex tasks

Constructing complex interactions
Guiding users with feedback and feedforward
Making complex information accessible
Leveraging location cueing in the UI design
Applying the three-step error handling pattern

Module 4: Shaping the Interactive Experience

Integrating UX design patterns

Applying the three perspectives: interactive, emotional, environmental
Selecting UX design patterns based on user expectations and interaction vocabulary
Guiding users with feedback and feedforward

Assembling a low-fidelity model

The role of sketches, wireframes and storyboards
Implementing the sketch
Building wireframes with key components of the interface
Documenting decisions to deliver stakeholder value

Module 5: Designing for Mobile Devices

Addressing the mobile context

Integrating the features of the mobile experience into a genuinely mobile design
Fashioning tasks in the mobile context

Developing a mobile design

Adjusting for the impact of ubiquity and pervasiveness
Taking advantage of options in mobilising applications

Module 6: Generating a Dynamic Model

Prototyping your UI

Working with prototypes
Uniting usability, human factors, and stakeholder needs
Applying the three perspectives to generate the initial design
Writing interaction scripts to identify UX barriers

Developing a high-fidelity design

Composing the interactive experience
Implementing embedded and supplemental navigation

Module 7: Refining the Design through Testing

Preparing for testing

The role of usability testing in refining the UX design
Preparing for usability tests based on goals

Performing usability tests

Conducting tests that provide concrete direction
Analysing the results to revise the design

Get This Course £2,075

3-day instructor-led training course
After-course coaching available
After-course computing sandbox included

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Oct 8 - 10 2:00 PM - 9:30 PM BST

Herndon, VA or Virtual
Oct 28 - 30 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM GMT

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Dec 10 - 12 2:00 PM - 9:30 PM GMT

Herndon, VA or Virtual
Feb 18 - 20 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM GMT

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Feb 18 - 20 2:00 PM - 9:30 PM GMT

Herndon, VA or Virtual
May 27 - 29 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM BST

London or Virtual

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User Experience (UX) Design Training FAQs

UX stands for User Experience and UX design is the process of finding functional solutions to appeal to your customers by using a UX design to enhance your product.

User Experience (UX) Design for Successful Software will give you 17 PDUs.

Yes! We know your busy work schedule may prevent you from getting to one of our classrooms which is why we offer convenient online training to meet your needs wherever you want, including online training.

This course benefits anyone involved in the creation of User Interfaces for web-based applications: designers, developers, project leads, and business systems analysts.