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Practical UX Weekly: Season Two

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Overview

Want to create amazing user experiences? Get tips and tricks you can use on real-world UX design projects.

Ever wondered how other UX designers troubleshoot problems and juggle conflicting priorities? In this weekly series, Drew Bridewell—a user experience designer and leader of the digital transformation team at InVision—shares his hard-earned knowledge and shows how to apply basic UX design principles to real-world projects. Drew discusses his daily workflow, shares tips and tricks for presenting your work and collaborating with others, introduces valuable tools, and walks you through a day in the life of a product designer. Tune in and start looking at your own design projects in a new light.To continue the conversation with Drew and other user experience professionals, join Drew's Practical UX: Lessons from the Trenches LinkedIn group.Check out Practical UX Weekly (2017) for 40 more tips and tricks.Note: Because this is an ongoing series, viewers will not receive a certificate of completion.

Syllabus

New This Week
  • Whiteboarding
Introduction
  • A weekly series about professional UX design
UX Skills
  • Storyboarding in user experience design
  • The art of creating a successful presentation
  • Building a case study
  • Designing a workshop
  • Workflow map fundamentals
  • Facilitating remote meetings
  • Embracing Practice in Product Design
  • Naming fundamentals
  • Icebreakers in UX design
  • The relationship with the whiteboard
Product Design
  • The roles in user experience design
  • InVision Freehand introduction and tips
  • Introduction to UX design: The basics
  • Problem-solving in UX design
  • Transitioning roles in design
  • The race to the draft
  • Capturing your work
  • The UX design trade-off formula
Communication and Collaboration
  • Adopting a culture of design
  • Project kickoffs: Setting you, your team, and your company up for success
  • Mentoring designers
  • Creating better 1:1s
Design Systems
  • Design systems: What they are and what they do
  • Building a case to invest in design systems
  • Conducting the modern day design audit
  • Setup essentials: Getting started
  • Developing the information architecture of your design system
  • The workflow of designing a component
Design Drills
  • Alignment shortcuts in InVision Studio
  • Working with typography in InVision Studio
  • Design hygiene

Taught by

Drew Bridewell

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