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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 benefits of user research


User research ensures customer validation, clarity, and a process when producing the products of tomorrow. Conducting user research has certain benefits.

The following are some of the benefits that we gain when we do user research:

  • Helping to create the right product from the beginning
  • Increasing conversions and revenues
  • Avoiding surprises saves time and money
  • Improving SEO and marketing
  • Customer retention and loyalty
  • Providing competitor insights
  • Development resources
  • Early design guide

Helping to create the right product from the beginning

Let's take an example. Let's assume that we have an idea and we want to create a product for it. Our product will target a specific market, but if we design something that does not meet the expectations of that market, all our effort will have been wasted.

That is why it is really important to conduct user research from the first stage.

Having interviews with our potential users at the beginning of our product design can be a really...