Get tips that will help you confidently tackle real-world UX design projects. Drew Bridewell shares examples of how UX designers approach their work, collaborate, and solve problems.
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- Welcome
- Connecting with Drew
- What skills do people really need for UX?
- Sharing your design perspective within the team and beyond
- 5 tips to improve your user experience design skills
- A day in the life of a product designer
- Interviewing designers: tips, tricks, and things to avoid
- Acing your next design interview
- How to win when working remote
- Behind the role of a user experience designer
- Wireframing best practices
- Designing a responsive web product
- Responsive web techniques: Creating box studies
- Product design at scale: Short- and long-term design thinking
- The workflow of a product designer
- Pitching your next user experience idea
- Designing for context first
- Pretty doesn't mean functional
- Practical tools for every UX designer
- Thinking design systems
- Managing expectations
- Case Study: Course page
- Case Study: Reminder feature
- Case Study: Signup flow
- Case Study: Orientation feature
- Case Study: Responsive navigations
- Case Study: Member homepage
- Investing in relationships with your team and beyond
- Working closely with product managers
- Working with engineers
- Facilitating workshops with your team
- Working through change
- Design critique fundamentals
- Sweating the details in UX
- Capture your wins
- Capturing your product bugs or new ideas
- Storytelling in user experience design
- Working with user experience researchers
- Redesigning your meetings
- Finding your magic creative time at work
- Making time to be creative
- Sketching in user experience design
Taught by
Drew Bridewell
