Foundations of UX Design

Foundations of UX Design

1. What is user experience

   • The user experience is how a person the user, feels about interacting with or experiencing a product.  For the user to have a good experience, the product needs to be useable, equitable, enjoyable and useful.

2. Different Roles in UX Design

   • Empathy is a major part of UX
   • Interaction Designers
     • Interaction Designers-design experience of a product and how it functions Connect user's needs and business goals with what's feasible to build. Users have to come first.
   • Visual Designers
     • Focus on how a product looks, design logos, illustrations and icons
   • Motion Designers
     • Think about how it feels like for a user to move through a product and how to create smooth transitions between pages on an app or a website.
   • Graphic Designers
     • Work on appearance of a product

3. 5 stages of product development life cycle

   • 1.Brainstorm
     • discuss who the target user is what problem trying to solve how the product will solve the problem
   • 2.Define
     • Narrowing down and focusing on what exactly the product will do , setting clear definitions and goals, doing research 
   • 3.Design
     • Actual designing stage  design looks, fonts, colours etc making sure that the product is on brand
   • 4.Test
     • Test product with potential users  change what needs changing according to feedback , check functionality etc
   • 5.Launch