Contents
From basics and backgrounds to the disciplines, concepts and principles of user experience design.
Get to know your users and their needs with personas and user scenarios.
Requirements for functions and content with Agile UX and Lean UX.
Developing information architecture and navigation design.
Interaction and information design with sketches, wireframes and interactive prototypes.
Test an existing or prototypical software application.
Accomplishments
Internationally recognized certificate
High-quality digital training documents
Extensive presentation as PDF
Numerous templates for daily work
Folder with numerous templates
Lots of Best Practices
Exchange and discussion with other participants
Alumni group for further contact
Photo and video documentation
Links, literature and tooltips
Special places in a creative ambience
Lunch, hot & cold drinks, fruit and snacks
Internationally recognized certificate
High-quality digital training documents
Extensive presentation as PDF
Numerous templates for daily work
Folder with numerous templates
Lots of Best Practices
Exchange and discussion with other participants
Alumni group for further contact
Photo and video documentation
Links, literature and tooltips
Special places in a creative ambience
Lunch, hot & cold drinks, fruit and snacks
Internationally recognized certificate
High-quality digital training documents
Extensive presentation as PDF
Numerous templates for daily work
Folder with numerous templates
Lots of Best Practices
Exchange and discussion with other participants
Alumni group for further contact
Photo and video documentation
Links, literature and tooltips
Special places in a creative ambience
Lunch, hot & cold drinks, fruit and snacks
User experience has become the most important factor for designing successful digital products. The quality of the user experience determines whether websites, apps and software are used or not. User experience design has therefore become a key factor, a touch on the scales. An excellent “user experience” ensures satisfied users, creates better customer loyalty, increases credibility, ensures positive reception in media and app stores and enhances a company’s reputation.
The profession of the user experience designer has become increasingly differentiated. Knowledge and skills in the professions UX Design, Usability and Interaction Design are more important and in demand than ever. It is becoming more and more important to apply the methods of these disciplines in a concentrated form in order to quickly come to pragmatic solutions and to develop them iteratively. In the spirit of the Lean UX and Agile UX mindsets, we will familiarize you with the development of user scenarios, user story maps and content strategies to develop information architectures, wireframes and interactive prototypes, which will then be tested.
In this workshop we teach the participants the methodologies of the User Experience Design and provide them with a lean toolset (Lean UX). With the help of agile methods (design sprints) you will learn to find intelligent and practicable solutions with the help of different stakeholders. You will learn to design interactive, digital products with an excellent user experience in a very short time.
The workshop was developed for designers and design managers, project and product managers, web and software developers, speakers and editors, copywriters and concept developers, marketing and content managers, media and information officers, information and interaction managers, usability engineers, scrum masters and product owners, who are responsible for the conceptual and strategic development of websites and apps in agencies, companies and organisations.
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Agenda
1st Day
09:00 - 9:30 Welcome, get to know each other and warm up
The convivence of multiple disciplines merging into the User Experience (Business + User + Content + Interaction). An introduction to the product development ecosystem: Structures, roles, who does what in a product team.The digital touchpoints, its differences, and special requirements. The complexity of approaching product development in a digital, multi-platform ecosystem. Usability principles
- What is UX? What is Lean UX? Agile methods vs other methods. What is a sprint? The design spike. User stories and scrum methodologies in action
Team up in groups of 2 or 3 people and pick one of the provided examples, you’ll work with a company trying to address their problems and solving them through agile & lean methods.
- The MVP as the first goal. User centered design and the importance of research. Research methods: User segmentation, personas, marketing vs design research
Find which one of the given personas works for your company and why.
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch
- Taking personas into user scenarios. Mapping a customer journey. Examples of customer journeys and how they work. Airbnb’s story approach to a customer journey
- Break down the user scenario for when your customer goes through a specific part of your product, and map their actions, interactions, contexts and steps taken. Quick presentation of your user scenario for the rest of the class
- Thinking, building, learning, and iterating. Creating a backlog of user stories, defining our MVP. Product Roadmap. The sprint 0. Moving user stories across a scrum board.
- With your idea for a product in mind, create a backlog with EPICS and FEATURES to be built. Develop user stories for at least two of the features, and analyze which roles you’ll need to be involved to bring the stories to “done”. Explain your backlog quickly to the rest of the class.
15:30 - 16:00 Recap, questions, end of the day.
2nd Day
09:00 - 9:30 Recap
- Design basics: how do we perceive the world? Design process: Sketches, wireframes, Mockups, Interactive prototypes. Designing for multiple devices (Responsive / Adaptive). Mobile first. Design patterns: Navigation, filtering, search, etc. Introduction to iOS Design / Material design. What is the Design Studio method? Applying Design Studio to quick sketching
- Quickly make some scribbles with the help of the Design Studio method to represent the way you visualise the features you defined in the previous exercise. Discuss the results with the rest
- What is a prototype? Agile prototyping. Prototyping alternatives and tools.
Practical exercises: Make your scribbles into interactive prototypes for at least one of your features that responds back to your User Scenario. Elaborate at least one of the screens in Desktop, tablet and mobile format. Make a brief presentation of the results.
- Make your scribbles into interactive prototypes for at least one of your features that responds back to your User Scenario. Elaborate at least one of the screens in Desktop, tablet and mobile format. Make a brief presentation of the results.
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch
- Why is testing important? Testing methods and possibilities. How to conduct an interview? Live testing.
- Video: Watch some UX interviews.
- Elaborate questions and/or assignments for a live testing of your product.
- Practical exercises: We’ll do user testing within the group. Teams split in two, one will be interviewed using the prototype they built, and the other one will be interviewed in another team, and then switch again. The person interviewing should take notes on how the person responds to the assignments. At the end of the exercise, each team member should have at least conducted 1 interview and been interviewed once.
- What we got right, what we failed, what we learned. Retrospectives and action points. Applying results of the testing to building the next sprint. About shipping a product: Better done than perfect.
- Propose an alternative to one of the features of your product that didn’t test as expected. Make an action plan, or change your prototype. Make a small exposition on those changes for the whole class, showing the improvements or learnings.
- Examples of different organization sizes. A brief introduction to the Google Design Sprint. Agile vs Scrum vs Kanban vs Waterfall.
15:30 - 16:00 Recap, questions, fill feedback form online, delivery of certificates.
Benefits
First-class trainers with distinctive practical knowledge and many years of experience in an int. context
Learning content didactically prepared and creatively implemented
Practical application of theoretically well-founded knowledge
Latest results of brain research applied
Integrated coaching and mental training methods
Based on neuroscientifically founded principles
Attractive venues with a special atmosphere
Personal, informal interaction with trainers and participants
Dates
Up to 15% discount for the registration of several employees at one seminar. We are exempt from sales tax, therefore the net prices correspond to the gross prices.
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Testimonials
A super interesting workshop about UX design. Also as a developer I felt in good hands and had the feeling to be able to take a lot with me at any time.
The seminar was very well structured and the content was cohesive.
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Certificate
The certificate “Certified UX & Usability Professional” of the XDi – Experience Design Institute is awarded for the completed seminar, the active participation in the practical exercises as well as the final presentation. The certificate is recognized by the UXPA and the Interaction Design Foundation and enjoys an international reputation.
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