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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 5. User Personas

To help us achieve our goal of creating a great user experience for our targeted users, we need to create user personas. Personas are fictional characters, based on the user research that we have done in the previous chapters, that represent different user types that we think will be using our product.

User personas are important to us because we can easily know who our user is during the product design process.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • User personas, and why we need them
  • What kind of information we include inside user personas
  • The proper structure that user personas should have
  • Different perspectives in personas
  • The benefits of creating and using user personas during our UX design process