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UX Design for Mobile Developers

Learn to Design a 5-Star Android App
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Length 1 to 3 months
Effort Self-paced
Price Free
Subject Design, Computer Science
Level Beginner
Languages English
Video Transcripts English

About this Course

This course is optimized for the developer who is looking to efficiently learn the most important design techniques that will help them make better apps (with a focus on mobile/Android).

This is a UX design course built for current (and aspiring) mobile developers. In this short course, you'll step back from your IDE and dive into the techniques that great designers use to plan and prototype amazing apps before any code is written.


What you'll learn

What you’ll learn:

  • UI vs UX.

  • High level planning.

  • Low-fi wireframing and prototyping.

  • The perils of ignoring your user.

  • How to create effective personas and use cases.

  • Low cost user research.

  • The 5 big constraints: limited data, finite battery, hand-held usage, divided user attention, and small screens.

  • The implications of these constraints and what happens when you get them wrong.

  • Advanced wireframing.

  • Android sensors.

  • The importance of contextual apps.

  • Android APIs (Google Play Services).

Course syllabus

LESSON 1 What is User Experience? LESSON 2 User-Centered Design LESSON 3 Designing for Mobile Constraints LESSON 4 Designing for Android Delight

Meet the instructors

Nazmul Idris

Instructor

Izabel Grey

Instructor

Andy Brown

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