UX Fundamentals
by James Box & Cennydd Bowles
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October 8th 9:30am – 5:30pm
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Brighton 28 Kensington Street
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£345 + VAT Early bird price until September 10th. (£195 for students)
User experience is rightly seen as a critical way to stand out on today’s competitive web. But how does one go about shaping something as vague and personal as someone’s enjoyment of a website? What does it mean in practical terms?
This workshop gives an outstanding introduction to the world of web user experience design. By learning both the basic theory and practical applications of usability, information architecture and interaction design, you’ll learn how to make websites your users love and your company will profit from.
The workshop covers the entire design process. We begin with the fundamentals of both user and business research, including how to draw out unspoken requirements from both groups. We move on to discuss ways to turn your research into design concepts, and tools that will help you structure the site and pin down its major elements. Finally, we look at how to make effective wireframes and prototypes, test them with users and improve your designs through iteration. Attendees will receive a free copy of Cennydd and James's new book Undercover User Experience Design.
- How to learn about your users and what they really need.
- The importance of understanding business context.
- “Red flags” to watch out for in research.
- How to bridge the gap between discovery to creating concepts through collaboration and design games.
- Techniques to organise your content into meaningful groups.
- The fundamentals of sketching and interface design.
- How detailed your prototypes should be.
- About various prototyping tools and their corresponding strengths and weaknesses.
- How to create other deliverables such as site maps and personas.
- How to lead a productive critique session.
- The techniques and benefits of usability testing.
- How to integrate quantitative testing into your design process.
James is a self-confessed ‘user experience professional’. Part information architect and part interaction designer, when he’s not crafting sandcastles on the beach, James crafts websites that are fun and easy to use.
Cennydd leapt into the world of user experience eight years ago and hasn't shut up about it since. He now works for Clearleft and moonlights as a UX blogger, mentor and community evangelist. Cennydd is a regular public speaker (SXSW, IA Summit), a widely published writer (A List Apart, Johnny Holland, .net magazine) and co-author of the book Undercover User Experience Design.