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UX Course Online June 12, 2025 for Mobile Devices and Touch Screens
UX Class: User Experience for Mobile Devices and Touch Screens
$495.00
Learn about UX for phones, tablets, and touch screens, along with special considerations when defining their UX and UI in this focused UX class. This course teaches usability and interaction factors that impact mobile, tablet, and phone UX. Participants in this UX course discover how to create interfaces and interactions that are optimized for mobile and touch input. Learn how usability issues such as finger size, touch targets, single-hand use, and environment impact UX, and how to address these factors.
Part 1: Designing UX for mobile devices
There are many factors to consider when designing UX for mobile.
Understanding the demographics of mobile app users to create a successful experience
- Percentage of your user population accessing websites on mobile devices
- Percentage of the population using only mobile apps
Defining mobile apps
- Difference between devices
- Differences in user needs and requirements
- Working with physical size and orientation
- Considering user postures and positions in design
- Scenarios of use
Types of mobile apps
- Responsive web sites
- Understanding fluid layouts, media queries, and responsive media
- Native apps
- Understanding platforms and what additional features you can take advantage of
- Hybrid apps
- WebView apps and compiled hybrid apps
UX and Design approach to designing for mobile apps
- Important components of mobile development
- Building to multiple screen sizes
- Popular screen resolutions
- Options as a designer
Understanding the differences in user goals
- Researching your mobile app user
- Mapping out stories and scenarios for your mobile user (class project)
Building the information architecture for your mobile device
- Establishing your features
- Prioritizing features
- Focus on where your user is, not where they can go
- Testing you information architecture
Part 2: Designing UI and UX for touch
- Touch requirements
- Orientation
- Patterns of interaction
- Direct manipulation
- Providing Visual feedback
Primary touch gestures
- Tap, Tap and hold, Swipes, pinch and zoom and more
- Understanding that touch is not exact
- Compensating for the lack of a hover state in touch
- Best touch experiences for users based upon physical limitations.
Touch requirements for the best user experience
- Providing immediate feedback
- Having content follow the finger
- Keeping interactions reversible
- Providing visual feedback
Designing a touchable user interface (UI)
- Understanding common postures for touch devices
- Designing for the interaction vs. reading on a touch device
- Avoiding occlusion
- Building touchable UI
Part 3: Creating your UI for your mobile and touch devices
Visualize the design of your UI to make it easy for users to reach their goals.
Understanding and using a typographic grid
- Applying a grid to your mobile layout
- Using typography to convey your information hierarchy
- Taking advantage of metaphors in mobile design
Creating your wireframe
- Creating and testing a wireframe for your mobile app
- Adapting your wireframe for expanded breakpoints
- Testing your wireframe
Creating a mobile prototype
- Paper prototype
- Interactive prototype of your mobile app
Testing
- Usability-Testing your prototype
- Refining the UX
Why UX classes at AGI are the best option for you
- Hands-on learning: Learn UX quickly with our proven teaching methods.
- Exceptional curriculum: AGI has delivered UX training to thousands over 25 years.
- Expert instructors: Our instructors are UX experts and skilled educators.
- Small class sizes: Receive personalized attention with 10 or fewer participants per class.
- Repeat for Free: If you need a refresher or miss a class day, retake the UX class at no cost.