Creating User Experiences: Fundamental Design Principles
An entry point for developers to begin learning more about UI/UX design
What you'll learn
We're in a new era of software and devices, and user expectations are rising rapidly. To meet those expectations, developers need to understand more about design concepts. Whether working alone, or with a designer, this course will help by explaining fundamental principles, concepts, and terminology, and by exposing developers to a broad range of design possibilities.
Table of contents
- Introduction 6m
- The need for new thinking by developers 4m
- Stuck in a rut 3m
- Evolution as a useful mental model 4m
- Example to learn from: the music industry 5m
- Demo: StaffLynx as an example of new thinking 5m
- Preparing for the new ecosystem: fundamental principles of design 5m
- A test of awareness and observation 3m
- Summary and looking forward 4m
- Module 2 Introduction - Starting in the real world 2m
- What's wrong with this elevator? 5m
- The Gestalt principle of proximity 5m
- Some important design principles for choosing options 5m
- Hick's Law and its consequences 3m
- Alternatives to ridiculously long lists of options 5m
- Users outnumber developers, plus summary and next steps 3m
- Module 3 Introduction - The stages of visual processing 6m
- The Gestalt principles of proximity and similarity 5m
- More grouping gestalt principles 4m
- Gestalt closure, continuity, and figure / ground 7m
- Gestalt principles in remote controls, plus more on intentional blindness 5m
- Gutenberg diagram, and summary 4m
- Module 4 - Introduction to naturalness preference - Biophilia 6m
- Savannah preference and white space 5m
- Crowded screens and horror vacui 7m
- No matter what you've heard, screen real estate isn't that valuable 6m
- Infinite whitespace - demonstrating the viewport pattern 3m
- An exercise on crowded screens 3m
- Using color and gradients to promote naturalness 6m
- Summary and next steps 2m
- Module 5 - Introduction and definition of contour bias 3m
- Contour bias and desire lines 4m
- Overuse of rectangular designs and how to avoid it 5m
- Using animation to promote naturalness 5m
- Animation examples in StaffLynx 4m
- Three dimensional appearance - reasons and techniques 6m
- Summary and next steps 2m
- Module 7 - The need for keeping cognitive load low, and the progress we've made 4m
- Recognition over recall and progressive disclosure 6m
- New UI for progressive disclosure, plus highlighting and the mapping principle 6m
- Mapping continued, plus affordances 4m
- Affordances continued, plus constraints 5m
- Feedback, confirmation, and forgiveness 5m
- Summary and next steps 2m
About the author
Billy in an internationally known author and speaker. He offers consulting and training services for user experience design, end-to-end architecture, and presentation tier construction and development. His team, based in Nashville, Tennessee, has created applications hailed around the world for user experience innovation. Billy offers training on user experience design for any platform, and technical classes on XAML technologies. You can see Billy at major conferences all over the world, usually... more