American Graphics Institute instructors have been hired by Microsoft to deliver Windows UX classes at Microsoft's headquarters, and run Windows UX 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 10 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 10 UX and UI and is traditionally delivered to groups within an organization or enterprise rather than a public class for individuals. In this Windows 10 UX course teams discover how the modern Windows 10 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 10 for Phones, along with desktop and notebook. After this UX training session you will be able create more successful Windows 10 applications that deliver a better user experience.
- Understanding user experience
- How UX relates to success
- How UX relates to productivity
- Examples of great UX
- Windows 10 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 10 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 10 UX
- Considerations for Windows 10 UWP apps
- Resources for animation
- Using the grid for Windows 10 app design
- Building the structure of your app based upon scenarios
- Typography in a Windows 10 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 10 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
While we have Windows 10 computers and tablets for use in this class, you are encouraged to use your own devices with Windows 10 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.
This Windows 10 UX training course is for app developers and designers that need to understand the design principles of designing successful Windows 10 apps that work naturally with touch, input devices, and keyboard.
UX Classes in Our Classroom
This Windows 10 UX course is offered either in our classrooms or on-site at your location with a live instructor in the same classroom with you. It is available at our classrooms in Boston, New York City, and Philadelphia or on-site at your location globally. This course is typically delivered as a private UX workshop for a group or team.
UX Classes Online
This Windows 10 UX course is offered either in our classrooms or on-site at your location with a live instructor in the same classroom with you. It is available at our classrooms in Boston, New York City, and Philadelphia or on-site at your location globally. This course is typically delivered as a private UX workshop for a group or team.
