Course description
UX Design for Mobile Developers: E-learning from Udacity
User Experience (UX) is an extremely important part of the overall design and development of mobile application. Often confused with User Interface, which is only a small part of UX, it involves the strategic use of design elements to create the bes possible end product.
In this four week e-learning course form Udacity, participants will learn to look at mobile development from a design-minded point of view.
Upon completion of this program, participants will have an Android App that is:
- Designed for a specific target user.
- Has an almost-perfect high level flow.
- Avoids all major mobile pitfalls.
- Uses Android sensors and APIs to understand your user's context and deliver context-aware moments of amazement that they will love.
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Who should attend?
This UX Design for Mobile Developers course is designed for current or prospective mobile developers needing to learn design techniques for building beautiful apps.
Pre-Requisites
This program is intended for developers looking to learn efficient and effective design techniques. It does not, however, require that participants have any previous programming knowledge.
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Training content
Projects
- Design and blueprint your own incredible Android app!
Lessons
This program is broken into four lessons. The first two lessons focuson creating design.minded developers, while the second two equip users in principles and techniques for high-level UX planning
What is User Experience?
- What is UX?
- UI vs. UX
- High-level planning
- Low-fi wireframing and prototyping
- Two concrete app improvements to implement now
User-Centered Design
- The perils of ignoring your user
- How to create effective personas and use cases
- Low cost user research
- How to use personas and use cases to inform feature lists
Designing for Mobile Constraints
- 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
Designing for Android Delight
- Android sensors
- The importance of contextual apps
- The “components” of context
- Android APIs (Google Play Services)
Final Project
In your final project, you will create high/mid-level design specifications for your own incredible Android app. You'll begin work on this project in the Assignments for Lesson 2, and continue working on it until the end of the course.
Costs
It is free to start this UX Design for Mobile Developers course
Estimated time for completion assuming 6 hours per week: Approx. 4 weeks
2-Week Free Trial: Love it or Leave it
All Udacity courses are offered with a two-week free trial. Learners will have plenty of time to make sure that the program fits their needs. If it's not working out for any reason - user can cancel their subscription fee of charge.