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Overview
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Understanding the industry
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Objectives
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Research
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Mockups
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Testing
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Building
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Conclusion
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Should you test your wireframes
SECTION: 1
Overview
1:27
SECTION: 2
Understanding the industry
20:40
SECTION: 3
Objectives
1:57
SECTION: 4
Research
26:00
SECTION: 5
Mockups
45:11
6:38
SECTION: 6
Testing
41:22
SECTION: 7
Building
1:34
SECTION: 8
Conclusion
10:19
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Overview
The idea of UX, or User Experience, is not new but continues to be a sore point for designers and end users. For those who can figure it out, it pays well more than graphic design alone. And, UX design uses skills you already have. Interested? Don’t have a clue what UX Design is or where to start? We’ve got the UX design training experience that’s going to open a whole new world, and better-paying work!
UX design is creating products, most commonly apps and websites, that are easy to use, please the end user and look great. It’s understanding what the target user needs and how they get what they want. It’s how they interact with the information and how they navigate your design. The reason there’s so much demand for UX designers is that not a lot of graphic designers truly understand what’s involved. It’s more than slick graphics!
At BYOL, we’ve got years of design experience and an equally impressive number of years teaching design to real world standards. We know what UX and UI design for professional grade work require, and we know how to give you the best training and information to build you a lifelong foundation.
What are the requirements?
- No previous UX understanding is necessary.
- While a basic understanding of design will be needed to become a UX Designer you don’t need any of these skills to complete this course.
What am I going to get from this course?
- You’ll learn what the relevant tools are for UX Designers.
- You’ll find out how much a UX designer can earn.
- You’ll learn how to research a UX project.
- You’ll learn the difference between UI & UX.
- You’ll learn what the responsibilities of a UX designer are.
- You’ll be able to run your first user testing sessions.
- You’ll know how to run competitor research.
- You’ll learn how to build user profiles & personas.
- You’ll learn how to create wireframes.
- You’ll learn how to use InVision building mockups.
- You’ll learn how to report your user testing results.
- You’ll know how to run A/B testing.
- + More…
What is the target audience?
- This course is for anyone interested in becoming a UX Designer.
- This course is especially beneficial to people who already have Graphic or Web Design skills.
- This course is for designers who want to earn double as a senior UX designer.
Course duration approx 2hrs 40mins
Daniel Scott
Founder of Bring Your Own Laptop & Chief Instructor
I discovered the world of design as an art student when I stumbled upon a lab full of green & blue iMac G3’s. My initial curiosity around using the computer to create ‘art’ developed into a full-blown passion, eventually leading me to become a digital designer and founder of Bring Your Own Laptop.
Sharing and teaching are a huge part of who I am. As a certified Adobe instructor, I've had the honor of winning multiple Adobe teaching awards at their annual MAX conference. I see Bring Your Own Laptop as the supportive community I wished for when I was first starting out and intimidated by design. Through teaching, I hope to bring others along for the ride and empower my students to bring their stories, labors of love, and art into the world.
True to my Kiwi roots, I've lived in many places, and currently, I reside in Ireland with my wife and kids.
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Now, should you test your wire frames? And I don't mean sitting down and discussing them, I mean, actual user testing. My, uh, my, you know, I'd say no. But I've seen people do it and I see people teach that do it. Okay. And they, they like it and they find value in it.
And if you find value in it, go and do it. And just so you know, if you've never seen it, it's, it's just doing paper stuff. So like you get put, lay some sheets in front of people and you get people to kinda like fake click of where they'd go. And then you swap out the bit of paper to where the next page. And I find, like for me, I feel like if you've spent the time and money finding good qualified users to do your user testing, then you can put a little bit more effort into, um, you know, doing some digital versions. Especially if you're a UX designer.
Um, you'll have some kind of, you know, creative skills and any either Photoshop or even if it's PowerPoint or Word, you can do it, uh, a more complete digital version. Okay. With some actual interactivity to do so. Can you do, uh, testing wire frames? Yes. Have I ever done it?
No.
And if you find value in it, go and do it. And just so you know, if you've never seen it, it's, it's just doing paper stuff. So like you get put, lay some sheets in front of people and you get people to kinda like fake click of where they'd go. And then you swap out the bit of paper to where the next page. And I find, like for me, I feel like if you've spent the time and money finding good qualified users to do your user testing, then you can put a little bit more effort into, um, you know, doing some digital versions. Especially if you're a UX designer.
Um, you'll have some kind of, you know, creative skills and any either Photoshop or even if it's PowerPoint or Word, you can do it, uh, a more complete digital version. Okay. With some actual interactivity to do so. Can you do, uh, testing wire frames? Yes. Have I ever done it?
No.
