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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

User interface design


It's time to start to use everything that you've learned so far in a practical way; this is the part where everyone can see the results of your work.

Compared to the UX design part, where we cared more about the feel of the product, we will be more focused on creating a better look for our product in the UI and presenting it better visually to our users.

 

UI design is the part where we design user interfaces for different computer software, mobile applications, video games, and even interfaces for different machines, such as an ATM interface, washing machine interface, car screens interfaces, or any physical and digital interface our user has to interact with.

The following is a good quote that defines the user interface design better:

"User interface design is like telling a joke. If you need to explain the joke, then it is not a good one."

A good user interface design is when users do not have to waste their time, or focus too much on it, to finish a specific task.

If you...