UX Crash Course: 31 Fundamentals
My New Year’s Resolution for 2014 was to get more people started in User Experience (UX) Design. I posted one lesson every day in January, and hundreds of thousands of people came to learn!
Below you will find links to all 31 daily lessons.
Basic UX Principles: How to get started
The following list isn’t everything you can learn in UX. It’s a quick overview, so you can go from zero-to-hero as quickly as possible. You will get a practical taste of all the big parts of UX, and a sense of where you need to learn more. The order of the lessons follows a real-life UX process (more or less) so you can apply these ideas as-you-go. Each lesson also stands alone, so feel free to bookmark them as a reference!
#02 — User Goals & Business Goals
#03 — The 5 Main Ingredients of UX
#04 — What is User Research?
#05 — How to Ask People Questions
#06 — Creating User Profiles
#07 — Designing for Devices
#09 — What is Information Architecture?
#10 — User Stories & Types of Information Architecture
#11 — What is a Wireframe?
#12 — Visual Weight, Contrast & Depth
#14 — Repetition & Pattern-Breaking
#15 — Line Tension & Edge Tension
#16 — Alignment & Proximity
#17 — Z-Pattern, F-Pattern, and Visual Hierarchy
#18 — Browsing vs. Searching vs. Discovery
#20 — The Fold, Images, & Headlines
#21 — The Axis of Interaction
#23 — Calls-to-Action, Instructions & Labels
#24 — Primary & Secondary Buttons
#27 — How Experience Changes Experience
All done? There is a sequel to this course:
UX Crash Course: User Psychology
If you know someone else who wants to learn UX, please share!
If this is how you discovered my blog, it doesn’t stop here! I post a lot of awesome shit about UX, design, persuasion, and human behaviour. It’s a lot easier than hunting for links on your own!
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