UX Class for Windows App Design
UX Course for Windows
In this UX Course learn the principles of UX for Windows apps and how to build experiences that are delightful and take full advantage of Windows capabilities.
American Graphics Institute instructors have been hired by Microsoft to deliver Windows UX classes at Microsoft's headquarters, and run Windows UX design workshops across Europe, Asia, Australia, and in the U.S. You'll be learning from UX professionals who have extensive experience crafting modern apps, including extensive work with Windows UX. Our UX design practice is led by Jennifer Smith, who has been awarded Microsoft MVP status three times for her work in Windows UX, design, and prototyping, including her work with Blend for Visual Studio.
This is one of our specialized UX classes and is focused on Windows UX and UI and is traditionally delivered to groups within an organization or enterprise rather than a public class for individuals. In this Windows UX course teams discover how the modern Windows design language provides an opportunity to envision applications on new devices, with new interaction models, new ways to present information, and access to new services using contracts. This UX training class takes you through the essential design considerations you need to know when creating applications that will be used for both desktop and touch devices, and different form factors, ranging from touch-centric devices such as the Surface, Windows for desktop and notebook. After this UX course you will be able create more successful Windows applications that deliver a better user experience.
Ways to attend this UX Course
- Live Online classes from your office or home as a regularly scheduled small group class.
- Live, in-person regularly scheduled UX classes in Boston or Philadelphia with a live instructor in the same classroom.
- Private training customized to your specific needs delivered in-person or online. Call 781-376-6044 or complete the Private UX Training form for more information.
- Corporate UX Training for your group or team.
All UX classes include
Free retakes
Detailed curriculum
Live instructor
Flexible rescheduling
Certificate of Completion
Windows UX Class: Topics Covered
- UX Design workflow
- Tips for creating a great User Interface (UI)
- Understanding the popular grid systems
- Importance of Typography in UX
- Building a Prototype
- Taking advantage of interactivity and motion in UX design
- UX Testing and Feedback
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- Understanding user experience
- How UX relates to success
- How UX relates to productivity
- Examples of great UX
- Windows user experience
- Commands
- Content before chrome
- Navigation
- Constantly communicates with your customer
- Brings order and clarity to information
- Impacts a customer’s decision in a fraction of a second
- Helps you stand out from others
- Tidy equals trustworthy
- Considers the goals and avoid distractions
- Directs the user and makes complex tasks more manageable
- Overview of UX process
- Understanding the necessary tools
- Matrix of UX roles and processes
- Importance of user research
- Types of research: Interviews, surveys and more
- Review of a UX brief
- Creating a project overview
- Considering the deliverables
- Results from research
- Issues and risks
- Focusing on scenarios and features that add value
- Building scenarios
- Prioritizing scenarios
- Collecting the background
- Using a story matrix
- Writing your story
- Overview of Windows commands and controls
- Deciding best features based upon scenarios
- Journey maps
- Card sorting
- Focusing on the application statement, main scenarios and stories
- Organizing features
- Building your navigation
- Testing your navigation
- Overview of usability studies related to touch
- Controls used in touch
- Avoiding occlusion
- Understanding animations within Windows UX
- Considerations for Windows UWP apps
- Resources for animation
- Using the grid for Windows app design
- Building the structure of your app based upon scenarios
- Typography in a Windows app
- Suggestions for navigation and command placement
- Building your layout for scalability and high resolution presentation
- Using the grid to build scalable apps
- Guidelines for iterating
- Reviewing and testing your sketches
- Sketching screens that help your users complete scenarios, reach goals
- Overview of common prototypes
- Testing your paper prototype
- Building an interactive digital prototype
- Mood boards and Style tiles
- Windows UX specific considerations
- Overview Agile vs Waterfall
- Understanding sprints, scrums, and minimal viable product creation
- Using UX Brief and importance in retaining information
- Internal and external testing opportunities
- Art history from the industrial time period and how it relates to present design
- Typography and how it relates to information design
- Understanding the use of the typographic grid
- Using the type ramp to create an information hierarchy
- Practice in composition, Typography, and grid layouts
Custom and private UX classes
This UX course is available as a private class. Curriculum can be customized for your specific needs. UX classes can be delivered at your location, online, or in our classrooms. For more information, call 781-376-6044 to speak with a training consultant or contact us.
UX Course for Windows App Design
Previous experience in the UX field or work in app or web development is useful. Those without prior experience should attend the UX design course before attending the rapid prototyping UX class.
UX Certification
You can expand your skills and validate your user experience knowledge using the ISO international standard for UX certification. Learn more about UX Certification options.
While we have Windows computers and tablets for use in this class, you are encouraged to use your own devices with Windows for testing as well.
You will receive a comprehensive course manual for this class developed by three-time Microsoft MVP and Windows User Experience expert Jennifer Smith.