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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

The role of big data in UX design


We explained big data and the importance of UX in it, but let's look at a better example of the role that UX plays in big data. As an example, let's explore how data for the same product is displayed across different platforms, such as desktops devices, tablet devices (iPad, Kindle), and mobile devices (iPhone, Android).

Bigger devices will always show more data, where users can easily navigate through it thanks to larger screen sizes. When it comes to small devices, we will only display the most important data.

Since we used the Amazon website as example in the previous section, in the following screenshot you can see the differences in how data is presented on Amazon, depending on whether users are using a desktop or mobile application:

We do this because we don't want to overwhelm users with unnecessary amounts of data. Instead, we want to provide them only with the data that is important to them and to our business, so that we can guide them to take the...