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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Windows UX design overview
  • Understanding user experience
  • How UX relates to success
  • How UX relates to productivity
  • Examples of great UX
  • Windows user experience
Understanding Windows UX and Universal Windows Platform
  • Commands
  • Content before chrome
  • Navigation
Value of great user experiences across Windows devices
  • 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
Planning a Windows app
  • Overview of UX process
  • Understanding the necessary tools
  • Matrix of UX roles and processes
Starting the app design process
  • Importance of user research
  • Types of research: Interviews, surveys and more
Preparing a UX brief for WIndows apps
  • Review of a UX brief
  • Creating a project overview
  • Considering the deliverables
  • Results from research
  • Issues and risks
Recognizing what your app will be best at before you start 
  • Focusing on scenarios and features that add value
  • Building scenarios
  • Prioritizing scenarios
Creating Stories
  • Collecting the background
  • Using a story matrix
  • Writing your story
Building a feature list for Windows apps
  • Overview of Windows commands and controls
  • Deciding best features based upon scenarios
Overview of information collection tools for Windows UX design
  • Journey maps
  • Card sorting
Building Windows information architecture
  • Focusing on the application statement, main scenarios and stories
  • Organizing features
  • Building your navigation
  • Testing your navigation
Understanding and applying touch in Windows UX
  • Overview of usability studies related to touch
  • Controls used in touch
  • Avoiding occlusion
Applying animation in Windows user experiences
  • Understanding animations within Windows UX
  • Considerations for Windows UWP apps
  • Resources for animation 
Layout guidelines for Windows UX
  • 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
Sketching a Windows app
  • Guidelines for iterating 
  • Reviewing and testing your sketches
  • Sketching screens that help your users complete scenarios, reach goals
Building a prototype of the Windows UX
  • Overview of common prototypes
  • Testing your paper prototype
  • Building an interactive digital prototype
Visual design
  • Mood boards and Style tiles
  • Windows UX specific considerations
Windows development options
  • Overview Agile vs Waterfall
  • Understanding sprints, scrums, and minimal viable product creation
  • Using UX Brief and importance in retaining information
Testing & documentation for Windows apps
  • Internal and external testing opportunities
How design, composition, and art relate to UX design practices
  • 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

Available Delivery Methods For This Class

CLASSROOM
LIVE ONLINE
PRIVATE
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