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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

Data visualization


With all this data at our disposal, UX design and big data are both concerned with data visualization.

Data visualization is just a form of visual presentation that shows the information collected from big data to the users.

Most of the time, the term big data is used for data that is extremely large and complex. This is where we need data visualization, to extract that data in better and simpler ways for us and our users.

We are all aware of the famous quote that a picture is worth a thousand words. This can also be the case when it comes to visualizing data for our users. Displaying the data in graphical assets can provide our users with meaningful information for each piece of data that we add inside the product's user interface.

A key concept of big data is to analyze the data and just put the information we need inside the product. Most of the time, we only need to deal with a deep analysis of the data when we create dashboards.

A dashboard is the first page our users...