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UX Design - Google Certificate > Module 1 > Flashcards

Module 1 Flashcards

1
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User Experience

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How a person (the user), feels about interacting with, or experiencing a product

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Product

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A good service, or feature

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What makes a product a good experience?

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> Usable
Equitable
Enjoyable
Useful

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Usability

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UX Designers need to think of every person that uses the product (people with disabilities, people w dif life experiences)

> one user might like a lot of text while the other has a visual impairment and might want sound as a feature
considering needs of dif people is important

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Equitable

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Your designs are useful and marketable to people with divers-abilities and backgrounds

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Enjoyable

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Making things enjoyable to use (positive connection between user and product)
>Foster connection by taking user’s thoughts and feelings into account when making products

*What makes a user feel happy about a product?
Research<3= collect evidence on how they are experiencing that product in real time

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Useful

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Solves your problems

Example) if you’re lost, a map app telling you how to get home is useful
> but if app can’t find current location it’s not useful anymore

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Why is UX important to Business?

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> Good usability + Design perform better than competitors
when people like a product + use a lot, they recommend to friends/family
when people like a product, more positive opinion of it

  \++ users, ++business
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Interaction Designers

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Focus on designing the experience of a product and how it functions

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Visual designers

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Focus on how the product/technology looks (logos, illustration, icons, font color, size, product layouts)

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Motion Designers

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Think about what it feels like for a user to move through a product

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Graphic designers

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Create visuals that tell a story/message

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UX Designers

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Focus on how users interact with a product

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UX Researchers

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Conduct studies/interviews that help us learn how people use a product

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UX Writers

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Think about how to make the language within a product clearer (tone formal/friendly)

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Production Designers

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Make sure 1st and Final designs match in finished product materials + assets are ready to be handed off to the engineering team

> Assets: text/images, design specs

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UX Engineers

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Translate designs intent into a functioning experience

18
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UX Program Managers

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Ensure clear and timely communication so that process of building a useful product moves smoothly from start to finish
> goals + project plans

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Product Development Lifecycle

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The process used to take a product from an idea to reality (5 stages: Brainstorm, Define, Design, Test, Launch)

20
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Product Development Lifecycle: 1) Brainstorm

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Active discovery stage that’s all about generating ideas about the user + potential needs/challenges the user might have

[Research plays a key role - UX Researchers + writers heavily involved]

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Product Development lifecycle: 2) Define

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Using insights from brainstorm stage + starting to narrow the focus

> concrete ways product affects
specific details related to the product, who product is for + what product will do
what features need to be included for product to be successful

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Product Development lifecycle: 3) Design

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Implement insights into new designs using various tools

> storyboards for user experience
prototypes

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Product development lifecycle: 4) Test

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UX Researcher:
Evaluating the product design based on the feedback of potential users
> interactivity of design + areas to
improve
> How color/font fit company’s
brand (engineers + UX Designers)

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Product Development lifecycle: 5) Launch

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Sharing finished version of the product with the public

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More on Testing (stage 4 of product development lifecycle)

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UX Researchers:
1) Team tests product internally for glitches, usability problems (alpha testing)

2) Test w/ stakeholders to make sure product is aligned with company vision, meets legal guidelines for accessibility, follows govt regulations for privacy

3) External test w potential users:
- figure out whether product
provides good user experience:
usable, equitable, enjoyable,
useful (beta testing)

26
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What should icons always come with?

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Sometimes the meaning of an icon is impossible to figure without text! TEXT is useful under icons to know what you’re clicking on

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Responsibilities of entry-level UX designers ——- Researching

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Research and understand audiences + learn about their backgrounds, demographics, motivations, pain points, emotions, and life goals

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Responsibilities of entry level UX designers ———- Wireframe

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An outline/sketch of a product or a screen

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Responsibilities of an entry level UX Designer ————- Prototype

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An early model of a product that demonstrates functionality
> more advanced than wire frame
> Illustrates a progression from one page to the next
> physical/paper prototypes
> demonstrates functionality

30
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Responsibilities of an entry level UX designer ———— INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE

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The framework of a website/how it’s organized, categorized, and structured

Ex) click “file” in Google docs > expect ‘New Page’ or ‘print’ in options

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Responsibilities of entry level UX designers ————- COMMUNICATING EFFECTIVELY

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Meetings, emails, proposals, clients

32
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Generalist

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A UX Designer with a broad number of responsibilities (coding, prototype, visual design, UX research, writing)

-common at smaller companies
-responsible for at least 2 on the list ^

33
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Specialist

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Dives deep into one particular UX design role, like interaction, visual or motion design

> more in depth knowledge in 1 type
specialist work at larger companies where organization can have big team of UX designers

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T-Shaped Designer

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Specializes in one kind of UX design and has a breadth of knowledge in other areas

> (coding, prototyping, visual design, UX research, writing) complementary skills
Deep knowledge in one (visual design ex)

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