path towards a ux designer
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I’m Ranjith - A UX Enthusiast, smitten by the power of internet and the spirit of creation!
Thanks to PUG
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From ‘Designer’ to ‘UX’ Designer - Part IA series of sessions to help you become one!
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Basic knowledge on one UX research methodology
Key takeaways from this session!
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Who is a UX designer ?
The million dollar question!
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but what’s ‘User eXperience’ ?
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UX designer builds User eXperiences
Visualaesthetics
Information design
Content
Interactiondesign
Usability
UX
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Building a User eXperience?
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Lets break it into 4 key phases
Ideate Prototype
BuildDeploy
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Conceptualize, Gather information, Brainstorm, Create a clearer picture - chaos to order
Ideate
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Ideate
Creating order from chaos requires disciplined approach. Ideating a UX involves
the following phases
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Ideate
UX Research
UI Flows
Screens / Wireframes
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User Research
Competition analysis
Surveys
Focus groups
Field study
Card sorting
Personas
Ideate > UX Research
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Define Personas and
grab a special gift!
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Ideate > UX Research > Personas
‘Persona’ is derived from the latin word meaning ‘actor’s mask’ worn for plays in theatres!
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Ideate > UX Research > Personas
In UX design, they are fictional characters created to represent the different user types of a system, used to gather useful requirements and
data, which will be used to build the system!
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Ideate > UX Research > Personas
Key checkpoints to make your personas better!
Do a good amount of user research
Keep persona set minimal
Identify ‘Goals’
Identify ‘Tasks’
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Ideate > UX Research > Personas
Lets build a website for PUG, Chennai!
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Creating a persona from scratch
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Name
Biographical infoAge, profession, hobbies, preferences,
specialities
Goals
Tasks
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Resources
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Books
The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman
Dont make me think by Steve Krug
The inmates are running the asylum by Alan Cooper
The elements of UX design by Jesse James Garette
Blogs/URLs
boxesandarrows.com
uxmatters.com
uxbooth.com
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Q&A
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Thanks All!Catch you all in the next part of this series
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