agnieszka naplocha - ux for developers. seriously! | codemotion milan 2015
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Front-end or Back-end?
Start-up or big company?
Have you ever worked with UX designers?
Who are you?#RAISE YOUR HANDS
Knowing more about UI design will make you a better developer, but that doesn’t mean you should be responsible for UI design.
Information Architecture
Content Strategy
Interaction Design
Research
User Interface Design
Usability
Information Architecture
Content Strategy
Interaction Design
Research
User Interface Design
Usability
what?!
Creative Workshops
Organized at the very beginning Participatory design Meet people from the team Get insight into the project’s domain Engage in the project
ConceptResearch Prototyping Tests
Paper prototypes
Simple, easy & quick
Picture means more than words
Sketching
ConceptResearch Prototyping Tests
When you are lost in the navigation
For improving information architecture
Works for grouping and categorizing the content
Card Sorting
ConceptResearch Prototyping Tests
Research-led design is the holy grail of design.
Test your design quickly and cheaply.
Get instant feedback.
Guerrilla’s Tests
ConceptResearch Prototyping Tests
You need developers to see users using their application and any difficulties users have.
Jeff Atwood, Co-founder of Stack Overflow
So three pieces of advice: - Have developers observe actual users. - Have them share help desk duties. - Buy everybody a copy of 'Don’t Make
Me Think'.
Jeff Atwood, Co-founder of Stack Overflow