User experience (UX) design is a theoretical understanding of how
users interact with websites. The major challenge developers building a
company website face is finding the right balance that fulfils the
objectives of the company as well as the needs of their users. A poor
user experience leads to losing out on customers and in turn the company
losing out on money.
User experience design underpins all major decisions taken by web
designers when laying out web pages. It is governed by fundamental
principles and practical approaches including wireframing,
bootstrapping, and even pen and paper designs that gives an indication
about the user experience that a successful site needs to offer to its
users.
UX Design for Web Developers is a breakthrough guide that reveals the
fundamental rules that govern how most people read and work with
websites, through the process of redesigning a mobile friendly website.
We’ll start off our journey by understanding why we need UX, how UX
came to be, and where it fits in the business and web development. We’ll
explore the fundamental skills for structuring and defining a website
along with content strategy. We’ll take a look at a variety of media
touch points that have potential to engage and influence your audience’s
experience.
With an overall review of some of the best practices of UX design
we’ll start building our application with screens that allow us to think
about the interactions. We’ll touch down on the important concept of
setting up wireframes and fix the loophole of static application by
building a simple clickable, prototype using the Invision tool. We’ll
complete our journey with a finished website plan ready for testing and
feedback.
By the end of this course, you will gain the ability to think like a
UX designer, through engaging human centered design practices, UX
methodologies, useful UX tricks, as well as skills required for
interactive web designing.
About the Author
Michael Rosata is a professional JavaScript developer and the author of three courses on Functional JavaScript. He’s written multiple JavaScript applications for internal use at large companies. Michael is the founder of the Massachusetts Web Devs meetup. He has a great passion for learning, and teaching
I’d like to thank my family for giving me the opportunity to explore things I enjoy learning, and to the team at Packt Publishing, especially Sunny Kandre and Anish Dsouza for making this course possible.
