User experience is what fuels great app design. For this reason, this workshop teaches you best practices that delivers hands-on experience for creating application design structure, perfecting its details and validating its user experience through a working prototype. Through practical and action oriented guidance from an expert, you will learn about the work involved in UX Design, including identifying user needs, designing and prototyping interactive systems, and evaluating systems to make sure they work for users.

You will be introduced to Adobe XD, an easy to use intuitive tool built for UX designers to go from concept to prototype faster. Design experience or Adobe XD skills are NOT required for this workshop. Just turn up with your laptop and learn from the expert.

At the end of the workshop, you will be able to

• Design digital products to increase sales conversions and customer loyalty

• Build a user persona and empathy map

• Design screen flow, storyboard important screen and wireframe screens designs

• Develop an interactive prototype by using Adobe XD

• Deploy interactive prototype build on Adobe XD via Adobe Creative Cloud for user testing

• Conduct light user testing of the prototype within team

Duration

2 days

Who Should Attend

Graphic Designers, Visual Designers, Web Designers, Animation Designers, UX/Usability Practitioners, Entrepreneurs, Freelancers or anyone interested in UX design techniques, sketching and prototyping for Web and Mobile

Pre-Requisites

Non

Course Outline

DAY ONE

Introduction to UX Design

• What is a UX Design?

• How to define usability? How, when, and where to improve design?

• Overview on key usability concepts

• 5 key traits of a UX Designer

• How to formalize a problem into opportunities?

UX Cheat Sheet - Research to Feature

• 4 Stages of UX Design: Discover, Explore, Test, Listen

• What are the best research tools for each stage?

• Discover online design fundamentals that help your users reach their goals.

• Basic design principles for a better user experience

• Principles of typography for UX

• Form considerations

User Persona & Empathy Map

• Get to know user and empathize with user

• Develop the user persona and empathy map

Ideate & Sketching

• Work as a team to ideate and sketch app screens

• Introduce three steps of sketching technique from design sprint

DAY TWO
Story Boarding App

• Map user journey to screens

• Outline the app experience

• Developing concepts for primary screen

Building a wireframe

• Creating the layout for your app or website.

• Understanding what makes a good wireframe

• Creating an interactive wireframe

Designing with Adobe XD

• Using UI kits to rapidly design apps screens

• Animating screens and transitions

• Managing styles and symbols

Documentation, validation, and user testing

• Testing designs and communicating UX with a development team.

• Final visual design, redlines & design spec

• Types of Mobile UX testing

• Creating clear and useful documentation

Includes

• Workbook

• 2 tea breaks and lunch

• Certificate

Things to bring

Windows Laptop with 8 GB ram would suffice or MacBook

NTUC Members Privilege

NTUC members enjoy 20% of usual price ($1000). Bring your NRIC for verification when attending workshop.

About The Trainer

Mr. Ugendran. L has over 15 years of experience in UX development & a digital designer at core with over 9 years of experience as a Director. He is the Principal UX Consultant with TinkTank, where he works on consulting projects and taught workshops. He also serves as the Assistant Vice President of Digital Innovation & Design for a Financial Service Institution. He has led a team of designers for an ASEAN’s fastest growing e-commerce aggregator startup where he established UX design to development processes. Ugen’s earlier work experience was to create an interactive web-supplementary for a B2B quarterly trade industry publication. He is experienced in both print and digital and therefore able to relate to current users’ transformation to the digital landscape.

For more information please email info@tinktank.com.sg or call/WhatsApp +6598232880

This programme is brought to you by TinkTank Talent Associates Pte. Ltd. in collaboration with NTUC U Associates.

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