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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

Visual design tools


Now that you clearly understand the visual design elements and the design principles, you need to combine all these elements and principles together to come up with a great solution for your visual design.

Beside the concepts that we've covered so far, to create great visual designs of any kind, whether you are creating graphic assets or user interfaces, you will need to use design tools and software to produce the final design.

Before I move to the list of tools that you can use for creating visual design, let's discuss what we could to do to get inspired. For creating good-looking and usable visual design, we need to stay inspired and be creative. If it was so easy just to use tools and start doing the designs, then everyone would do it, right?

I highly suggest that if you want to focus on a visual design career path, you need to stay inspired daily, and the best way to do so is by looking at what other designers and design agencies are doing.

Two main platforms, or as...