Ux Fundamentals: Practical Usability For Product Design

Avoid common mistakes in product design by learning usability principles and analysing tens of real-life examples.

What you'll learn
What usability means in digital interfaces
Why understanding your users is crucial for your interface's success
The basic aspects of usable navigation, search, form or animation
The basics of cognitive psychology
Why it's important to avoid errors and overloading your users
How to check if what you designed is usable
Requirements
Only willingness to design digital products!
Description
As a designer, no matter whether you’re working on UX or UI, you should always aim to design for the highest possible usability. It is something that all of your clients or team members will expect from every interface you design. A usable interface is easy to use, intuitive and does not require the users to think too much when using them. Knowledge of basic ergonomics and cognitive psychology is something that every designer should master and this course will help you start that journey, through learning:What usability means in digital interfacesThe basics of cognitive psychologyWhy understanding your users is crucial for your interface’s successWhy it’s important to avoid errors and overloading your usersThe basic aspects of usable navigation, search, form or animationHow to check if what you designed is usablePrinciples of usabilityLearn what are the core components and principles of usability, through reviewing numerous real-life examples I prepared for you. Understanding these rules of thumb devised by the pioneers of the industry will help you analyse interfaces and look for aspects that could be refined to achieve a better usability. It will be a great starting point for learning about all aspects of usability.The building blocks of interfacesThere are certain ground rules of usability in digital interface design and it’s important to understand what makes in interface simple and focused, as well as how to make basic decisions to avoid distressing your users. We will cover best practice in usability for common elements such as navigation, search, microcopy, forms or errors.Validating the usability of your solutionsCreating an interface that seems usable to yourself is relatively easy. Problems often appear when other people try to understand it or when you “let it soak” for a couple of days and review it from the perspective of usability. Over a couple of lessons we will also explore how to validate interfaces for usability with the use of expert reviews, usability testing and analytics.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Welcome!

Lecture 2 What is usability and why does it matter?

Section 2: Understanding usability

Lecture 3 10 usability heuristics I

Lecture 4 10 usability heuristics II

Lecture 5 Gestalt principles

Lecture 6 Affordances and signifiers

Lecture 7 Simplicity and focus of the interface

Lecture 8 Understanding your users

Section 3: Usability of common interface elements

Lecture 9 Designing a usable navigation

Lecture 10 An optimal search experience

Lecture 11 Microcopy

Lecture 12 Errors and dead ends

Lecture 13 Web form design

Lecture 14 Animation in interface design

Section 4: Good usability for all users

Lecture 15 Accessibility

Lecture 16 Expertise limits in design

Section 5: Validating the usability of your product

Lecture 17 Evaluating usability

Lecture 18 Usability testing

Lecture 19 Web analytics

Section 6: Wrapping up

Lecture 20 Wrapping up

UX Designers,UI Designers,Front-end developers,Product managers,Project managers,Startup founders, who want to build usable products