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Guide: Design/UX - Fundamentals

Description

👉 This guide is part of the Design/UX Guides. Please follow the order:

  • Fundamentals
  • Interaction
  • Testing

User Experience (UX) is comprised of a set of concepts that help you create not only an interface that works well, but also to  think of your product through the eyes of the user. Is the information easy to find? Are there too many clicks between wish and accomplishment? Can people read the text in this color? Questions like this and many more are the subject of UX. In this Guide you will learn the basic concepts around it.

Knowledge

  • Understand what User Experience is

Skills

  • Be able to define a set of actions to improve the UX of a project
  • Be able to create a Navigation and Information Architecture plan for a simple project

Topics

  • UX Main Concepts
  • Usability
  • Navigation / Information architecture

Action Points

  • Read-up on UX for the web
  • Learn about usability best practices on for web projects
  • Learn about Information architecture
  • Create a fictitious navigation and information architecture plan for a project

Deliverable: Technical Article

  • Submit:
    • Article’s public URL
  • Minimum requirements: 
    • Technical article on Usability and Information Architecture from a UX professional’s point of view