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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 9. UI Design and Implementation

With all the knowledge that you have learned so far in this book, it's now time to use it to create a user interface design. In this chapter, we will explain what a user interface design is, where it can be used, and how we can create it.

We will then explain the tools that we can use to create a UI design, such as the Sketch design tool.

All the information we've covered so far in this book, starting with UX design, to the UX design process, visual design elements, visual design principles, wireframes, and prototypes, will be the guide for us to create the user interface design. Without understanding those parts well, we cannot create a successful user interface design.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • User interface design
  • UI design tools
  • Designing the UI with Sketch
  • Creating the Design System in Sketch