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Hands-On UX Design for Developers

By : Elvis Canziba
Book Image

Hands-On UX Design for Developers

By: Elvis Canziba

Overview of this book

Designing user experience (UX) is one of the most important aspects of a project, as it has a direct effect on how customers think of your company. The process of designing a user experience is one of the most challenging yet rewarding aspects of product development. Hands-On UX Design for Developers will teach you how to create amazing user experiences for products from scratch. This book starts with helping you understand the importance of a good UX design and the role of a UX designer. It will take you through the different stages of designing a UX and the application of various principles of psychology in UX design. Next, you will learn how to conduct user research and market research, which is crucial to creating a great UX. You will also learn how to create user personas and use it for testing. This book will help you gain the ability to think like a UX designer and understand both sides of product development: design and coding. You will explore the latest tools, such as Sketch, Balsamiq, and Framer.js, to create wireframes and prototypes. The concluding chapters will take you through designing your UI, dealing with big data while designing a UX, and the fundamentals of frontend. Finally, you'll prepare your portfolio and become job ready in the UX arena.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Title Page
www.packtpub.com
Contributors
Preface
Index

Chapter 10. Frontend UI Implementation and Process

It has been a long journey till now. This is the last stage we need to finish before our product moves to the development stage.

Here, we will have to do the development, but our main focus is on the development of the UI, not including backend functionalities, servers, or databases.

In this chapter, we will start explaining the process of how to hand over the product design to the frontend development team, what kind of assets should be provided to them, and what kind of tool we can use to make the process easier for both sides, that is, for design and frontend development.

After that, we will explain the frontend development discipline—what languages and tools they use, and what areas of development they cover.

We will cover the following topics in this chapter:

  • UI handover process
  • Tools that make the handover process easier
  • Frontend development process
  • Overview of CSS layouts such as float, flex, and grid
  • CSS preprocessors and postprocessors
  • CSS...