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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

UI Design handover


Similar to the UI Design process, where we needed information such as client requirements, clear planning documentation, research, user personas, wireframes, and prototyping for building user interfaces, when it comes to frontend development, developers need to know how you think the user interface that you designed will work, alongside the assets that are included on your user interface design, layout, grids, and UI components and all other required documentation, so that they can start the user interface development process.

The best way to provide all the required assets and data to developers is by having a proper handover process from the design stage to development stage, and to achieve that we need to involve the development team in the design process from the beginning.

Before I move on and explain the steps for handing-off the UI design, let me first explain the product development process in a classic way; a simple product development process involves the following...