User Experience (UX) Methods

In this course you will learn about four different methods for doing UX work. When you are done with this course you will be able to describe what each entails, the basic concepts behind each one, how to go about doing each method, and the pros and cons of each.

You will learn about each of these UX Methods:

• Design Thinking: Thousands of companies use Design Thinking to innovate and implement new products and services. In this course you will learn everything you need to know about Design Thinking concepts and the Design Thinking process. When you have completed the course you will know how to start and finish a Design Thinking project on your own.

• User Centered Design: The User Centered Design (UCD) process is one of the original methods for doing user experience work. Started in the 1980s, it is the design method that is most closely aligned with the work that needs to be done to ensure a product or service has an optimal user experience design.

  You will learn what UCD is and how to do UX within it including, What is UCD, The core concepts of UCD, How UCD is different from other methods, and its advantages and disadvantages

• Agile UX: Agile is one of the most popular software and app processes in use around the world. If you are a user experience (UX) professional chances are that you will need to do your UX work within an Agile team at some or many points in your career. In this course you will learn what Agile is and how to do UX within it, including, What is Agile and how and why did it get started and become so popular, The principles of Agile and how those principles affect UX work, different "frameworks" that organizations use for Agile, and the challenges of doing UX work within Agile

• Lean UX: When you do Lean UX you come up with hypotheses about design, create minimum viable products/prototypes, then test the hypotheses with your users and make pivot or go/no go decisions. It's a radical approach to designing user experiences. The result is that you design better and you design faster. You will learn about Lean UX, including: What Lean UX is, and how it is different from other UX processes, How to come up with hypotheses for your projects, How to plan experiments to test the hypotheses, What a minimum viable product is,

  and What a pivot point is and how to use that for decision making

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