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    UX Design Essentials for Managers

    The focus of this one-day course is on developing design thinking, leading and influencing a design team, effective teamwork, and fostering a great design

  • SofwareProfessional

    Leading and influencing design

    Learn how to lead and influence your design team with a user-centered design process. Learn to make good decisions quickly and confidently and how to give effective feedback.

  • Culture

    Foster a great design culture

    Your team’s culture determines what actually gets done. To impact design, you must make sure your culture matches your design aspirations. You have to walk the walk.

  • Simple

    Make it simple & intuitive

    Learn what an “intuitive” and simple UI really means, so that you can make your product easier to understand and use, and remove unnecessary complexity.

  • Therapy

    Design therapy

    Your management team is aware of many problems and their solutions. Several class exercises are designed to be a forum to share them. A kind of a group design therapy—with a neutral party leading the way.

  • UXDE

    Want to learn more?

    Watch this video to learn more about UX Design Essentials for Managers and why having a great user experience is so important to your product’s success.

 

User Experience Design Essentials for Managers is a one-day course on user experience design from the management point of view. In contrast to the standard Essentials course, this course focuses on the business value of great design, developing design thinking, leading and influencing a design team, effective teamwork, and fostering a great design culture.

Hosting UX Design Essentials for Managers at your company will give your management team the essential, practical knowledge it needs to create great user experiences that your customers will love.

Detailed course content

Course begins at 8:30 am, concludes at 5:00 pm

  • Course introduction
  • Part 1: A business case for a great user experience
  • Part 2: Why great design is so hard
  • Part 3: The design process and the classic mistakes
  • Part 4: Understanding user-centered design
  • Part 5: How to make it intuitive, simple, and delightful
  • Part 6: Effective prototyping
  • Part 7: How to evaluate a UI
  • Part 8: Design reviews: how to give effective feedback
  • Part 9: Fostering a great design culture

Each section has a 10 – 20 minute exercise. The exercises are either group discussions or design review situations.

Where is UX Design Essentials for Managers offered?

UX Design Essentials for Managers is offered onsite only. Train your entire management team at your location according to your schedule. Contact us for more information.

What is the cost?

$5,000 per team, plus travel expenses.

Does the course have hands-on exercises?

Yes. Each section has a 10 – 20 minute exercise. The exercises are either group discussions or design review situations.

We have specific challenges that we need help with. Can we customize the course to address them?

Yes! We can do limited customization to the course materials for the onsite course for no additional charge, including customizing the exercises. There’s no better way to satisfy your management team’s goals than to apply the exercise material directly to the problems you need to solve. We can also add a second or even third day to address your specific needs with custom course material (additional days are $5000 per day).

How large are the classes?

Classes are limited to a maximum of 20 participants.

Who is the instructor?

All course material created and presented by Everett McKay.

What materials are provided?

All participants receive an electronic copy of the course materials in pdf format for their personal use.

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