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User Experience Design Essentials

The document discusses the elements of user experience design for websites. It outlines the key steps as understanding user needs through research, defining functional specifications and content requirements, designing interactions and information architecture with tools like user flows and site maps, designing interfaces, navigation and information with wireframes and mockups, visual design with concepts and prototypes, and finally holding question and answer sessions. The overall process moves from understanding users to defining specifications to designing interactions to visual design and gathering feedback.

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User Experience Design Essentials

The document discusses the elements of user experience design for websites. It outlines the key steps as understanding user needs through research, defining functional specifications and content requirements, designing interactions and information architecture with tools like user flows and site maps, designing interfaces, navigation and information with wireframes and mockups, visual design with concepts and prototypes, and finally holding question and answer sessions. The overall process moves from understanding users to defining specifications to designing interactions to visual design and gathering feedback.

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The Elements of User
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User Needs, Site
Objectives
User Needs, Site
Objectives

• Done through client meetings, briefs,


participatory design, interviews.
• Results in mental models, photos, site
hierarchy
Functional Specs/
Content Requirements
Functional Specs/
Content Requirements
• Hub/spoke diagrams
• Function definitions
• Database schemas
• Content inventory
Interaction Design/IA
Interaction Design/IA

• User flows
• Site maps
Interface/Nav/Info
Design
Interface/Nav/Info
Design

• Wireframes
• Interaction mockups
Visual Design Surprise, it’s the
last thing
Visual Design

• Comps
• Interactive demos
• Prototypes
• Slides
Q&A

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