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Getting started in User Experience

This course helped me understand some fundamental concepts about User experience (UX) design. Chris Nodder talked about how UX design isn’t just about the visual look of the design or webpage, but rather encompasses other elements such as researching the target users and marketing to make sure that the user has a positive experience with the product throughout. The course also showed examples of UX designers working together and what that collaboration might look like. Nodder explained that the visual look of the design is oftentimes the last thing a team of UX designers looks into because the team needs to spend a lot of time planning out the design first to make sure that the design is functional but also looks good at the same time. He even talked about prototyping using different vector software such as Figma and how UX designers are expected to know some HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. They are also expected to know some fundamental design concepts such as typography and color theory. UX design isn’t just about visual design regarding web development or apps, but there are also other aspects of UX design such as voice UX, AI UX, etc., and successful UX designers usually branch out to colleagues working in other forms of UX. He also goes over how IT and technology changes drastically over years, and it is the responsibility of the designer to keep on top of different technological and design trend changes. There are also different aspects of user research itself because user research can encompass not just researching the users themselves, but also people who are in the supply chain, or people who are working on creating the product. Knowing what users’ pain points are when interacting with an interface is very important early on in the project, rather than researching that after the product is being created as it allows the team to set goals for themselves to fix those pain points. He also went through some basic points about information architecture, which is how information about how the interface works is portrayed to not just the user, but also the rest of the business working on the product. UX isn’t just about satisfying the visual aspect for a user, but also auditory, sensory, etc. needs of a user. UX needs to be as accessible to the user as possible. He also points out that human logic and computer logic are very different, and those differences can be used to create an accessible user interface. UX is also fundamental knowledge to learn by the entirety of the team too, not just UX designers because a team with good UX knowledge can benefit throughout the creation of the product. It’s all about acting on data you have collected about your users.

All of the information I learned from this course helped me understand UX design better, which helps me with my career goals because I plan on pursuing UX design after graduation.

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