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Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
What's changing in the world of UX and how can you adapt to meet the needs of today's users? Get insights that help you strengthen your design choices and stay current with trends.
As a user experience professional, you often find yourself acting as a liaison between business teams and technology teams, challenged to make design decisions that satisfy both parties. Additionally, you frequently revisit decisions made in the past, looking for ways...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Head into development with a clear understanding of what you need to build. Learn how user-centered design (UCD) artifacts can help you create a precise implementation plan.
User-centered design (UCD) artifacts aren't just for the visual aspect of design. In this final installment of UX Design Techniques—a series designed to teach you how to make your development process more user centered—learn how to use artifacts from each of the UCD techniques...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Get an introduction to the different visual maps that UX design teams create during the product-planning and decision-making processes.
Maps help us understand what a place looks like before we go there, and help us find our way. In user experience, you create special maps to arrange information about an element of the user experience in a way that helps to communicate it to its intended audience, whether that's just the UX team, the development...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Explore the field of user experience (UX) and discover how you can start learning the skills needed for a UX career.
Learn about the industry of user experience (UX)—including design, research, strategy, development, interactive and visual design, content, accessibility, localization, and data science—and explore the various roles within the UX field. Join instructor Chris Nodder as he describes various UX career paths, the skills employers will...
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Learn how to approach user interaction—and satisfaction—with ecommerce apps and websites from a user experience professional.
Online shopping may have only started in the mid-1990s, but that’s an eternity in internet time, and the ways goods and services are sold online is constantly changing. In this course, interaction designer Chris Nodder shares lessons he’s learned from designing ecommerce sites, along with the findings of numerous research...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Learn to incorporate ideation techniques in your design workflow. Leverage the input from your team to create the best possible product and to ensure a good user experience.
Ideation helps your team generate a lot of different design ideas in a short amount of time. In UX design, your first idea is seldom your best. A broad set of ideas is more likely to lead to a more creative, more satisfactory solution for your users. The ideation phase of UX...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Gain insights into a variety of user experience (UX) techniques and tools.
Do you need to deepen your understanding of user experience (UX) design for a new job or project? In this weekly series, instructor Chris Nodder digs into a variety of UX techniques and tools. Chris breaks down key practices such as card sorts, wireframes, usability testing, and desirability studies. He also explores specialized research techniques that can help you glean...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Learn about the set of user-centered design techniques that are covered in the UX Design Techniques series.
Following a user-centered design technique puts you more in touch with your users' true needs, which helps you develop solutions that really work for your intended audience. The approaches described in this course help development teams pool their diverse perspectives and collaborate to understand how to turn thoughts, feelings, frustrations,...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Explore the history and ethical implications of persuasive design in this Evil by Design course with Chris Nodder.
Design is communication. But a thoughtfully designed UI can do more than communicate options. It can also persuade users, nudging them down whatever path the designer had in mind. This persuasive power can be used for both good and nefarious purposes. In this course, based on his book Evil by Design, Chris Nodder discusses the ethical...
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Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Find how your users think about the world, and transition those lessons to your product's navigation, content classification, and layout.
Improving the way the information in your site or application is organized and presented is one of the most cost-effective ways of increasing user satisfaction and engagement. Information architecture can help you find out how your users think about the world, and transition those lessons to your product. In this...
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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Get a practical guide to implementing design thinking in your organization: who to involve, what activities to perform, and how to prototype better products.
You, or someone in your management chain, thinks that design thinking is the answer to all your problems. Now it’s up to you to make it work at your company. In this course, learn what’s involved in setting up a design thinking exercise to kick off a new project or subproject. Get tips for...
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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Learn about the psychological reasons why good UI design works, so that you can build websites and apps that work the way your users think.
While user behavior may often seem random, there are psychological reasons behind the choices individuals make as they navigate a user interface. In this course, learn about the psychological reasons why good UI design works, so that you can build websites and apps that work the way your users think. Instructor...
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Introduces the concepts and benefits of usability testing, which can improve ROI by focusing your design improvements in areas that have the biggest impact.
Why is usability testing important to you and your organization? For one, it empowers anybody in web or app development to find out just what their users need, and increases ROI by focusing design improvements on areas that have the biggest impact. In this short summary course, interaction design...
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Learn practical approaches for using statistics in your user experience projects.
Despite statistics being used more widely than ever and in increasingly diverse fields, many people still see statistics as a scary or confusing topic. In this course, Chris Nodder looks to take some of the mystery out of statistics by using real-world examples that show how you can apply data to your own work and user experience design projects. Chris starts with explaining...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Get an overview of the information architect role. Learn how IA fits into an organization, how to attract suitable candidates, and where the field of IA is headed.
Do you have to manage, work with, or recruit information architects? If so—or if you're considering a career in the field of information architecture (IA)—then this course is for you. Instructor Chris Nodder provides a high-level overview of the work that information architects do...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Prepping for a remote interview for a creative role? Get practical tips for appearing confident and prepared in interviews conducted over the phone or in video calls.
You've lined up a remote interview for an exciting creative role. Now what? In this course, Chris Nodder helps you ace the interview and land the job, sharing tips for preparing for and performing well in interviews conducted over the phone or in video calls. Chris begins by highlighting...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Learn how to gather user data and transform that data into actionable project ideas for more user-centric UX designs.
Who are your users? What are their challenges? How can your design solve their needs? UX research can help you answer these questions, and many more. In this installment of UX Design Techniques, Chris Nodder walks through the process of acquiring user data and transforming that data into actionable project ideas. Learn how to observe...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Identify design gaps and the exact features you need to build to make your users happy. Learn how to write scenarios and create storyboards in this installment of the series.
Scenarios and storyboards provide a reality check for your designs, helping you identify design gaps and articulate exactly what features you need to build to make users happy. This course shows how to use these tools to map the concepts generated during the ideation phase of...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Get practical techniques for writing for the web, including tips on front-loading content, avoiding jargon, and keeping your content up to date.
People read differently online: they scan. They're trying to find information quickly. Writing with this goal in mind makes a website more appealing, and makes customers more likely to visit more often and buy products and services. In this course, Chris Nodder offers seven practical techniques for writing...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Learn how to create a style guide and design system that agencies, contractors, and staff can use to create user experiences that fit your brand.
A style guide is the document that sets the tone for how your organization communicates and how it designs its products. It incorporates branding, company philosophy, and an understanding of your customers and your market. It may describe the visual, written, and sometimes even spoken styles you use. Agencies,...
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