Training
UX Design Essentials Workshop
User-centered design
Make it intuitive
Make it simple
Usability testing
Learn by doing
February special
Starting a completely new project? Combine a two-day UX Design Essentials Workshop with an all-day design session for $1300. Get your new project off to a great start!
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do a UX design workshop and I understand. —Confucius
Learn UX design “by doing” in this fast paced, two-day workshop—targeted specifically at people who aren’t experienced designers—will give you the practical essentials you need to improve your UI design skills.
If you are a “hands on” learner who wants to learn UX design by doing instead of by lecture, this workshop is for you.
The workshop focuses on these practical essentials:
- Using an efficient, user-centered design process
- Making a design intuitive, simple, and delightful
- Designing tasks, task flows, and pages
- Evaluating designs, giving and receiving effective feedback
- Performing informal usability studies
Day 1 (8:30 am – 5:00 pm)
Part 1: Why user experience matters
Part 2: Use a good design process
- Basic design process
- Classic process mistakes
- Designing for users
- Framing to be user centered
- Brainstorming
- Value propositions
- Scenarios
- Personas
- Using data
- Prototyping
Part 3: Design concepts
- Design principles
- UI is communication
- Intuitive UI
- Simplicity
- Personality, tone, and respect
- Make it look great
Day 2 (8:30 am – 5:00 pm)
Part 4: UI elements
- Controls
- UI text
- Inductive UI
- Navigation
Part 5: UI composition
- Task and data decomposition
- Task flows
- Page design
- Layout
- Design for scanning
Part 6: Top scenario design
Part 7: Evaluation
- Evaluation techniques
- Preparing a usability study
- Performing a usability study
- Giving and receiving feedback
- Workshop wrap up
Where is the workshop offered?
UX Design Essentials Workshop is offered onsite only. Train your entire team at your location according to your schedule. Contact us for more information.
What is the cost?
$10,000 per team, plus travel expenses.
What is the workshop project?
We will work with you to customize the workshop exercises to use your product. There’s no better way to satisfy your goals than to apply the workshop material directly to the problems you need to solve. At the end of the workshop, your team should have made many significant improvements and have a clear understanding of your remaining challenges and how to address them.
Who is the instructor?
All course material created and presented by Everett McKay.
How large are the workshops?
Invite as many people as you like, up to a maximum of 20 participants.
What materials are provided?
All participants receive an electronic copy of the course materials in pdf format for their personal use.
For more information and availability, please contact training@uxdesignedge.com.
