Description
There are over 2 million apps on the App Store and growing. The only apps that do well are ones which are well designed both in terms of user interface and user experience. That’s why it so important to learn the design skills that will make your app stand out in a crowd.
The App Design Course is great for people with absolutely no design experience or experienced designers who want to get up to speed quickly with mobile app design. We’ll introduce you to the art of making beautiful apps. We’ll explore key UI and UX concepts that are essential to building good looking and easy to use apps that are loved by users.
The course has a practical component that takes you step-by-step through the workflow of a professional app designer. From user flow diagrams to wireframing to mockups and prototypes.
Students completing the course will have the knowledge to create beautiful and lovable apps that leave people with a smile on their face.
Who this course is for:
- Anyone who wants to build apps
- Anyone who wants to get more downloads for their apps
- Anyone who wants to start their own business or begin a freelance career
Course Outline
- Getting started
- Context
- Objectives
- Prerequisites
- Detailed content outline
- Deliverables
- Computing requirements
- Communications
- Introducing user-centered design
- User-centered design
- User-centered design process
- Design iteration
- Analysis phase
- High-level design phase
- Detailed design phase
- Verification phase
- Benefits of the process
- User interface design principles
- Attributes of a good interface
- Map to your user’s mental model
- Be consistent
- Reduce memory load
- Provide control
- Provide feedback
- Recover gracefully
- Provide flexibility
- Analysis definitions review
- Users
- Personas
- User roles
- Goals
- Functions
- Use cases
- Use case example
- About scenarios
- Use case scenarios
- Using scenarios
- Task instructions
- Submission instructions
- Organizing your information
- How to create an object diagram
- More about nouns and verbs
- Task preparation
- Task instructions
- Submission instructions
- Navigation
- Task flow diagrams
- How to create a task flow diagram
- Five navigational structures
- Sequential navigation
- Hierarchical navigation
- Star navigation
- Grid navigation
- Network navigation
- Hybrid navigations
- Task preparation
- Task instructions
- Submission instructions
- Desktop graphical interfaces
- Platform specifics
- The desktop application in brief
- Data-centered, object-oriented design model
- Document interfaces
- Primary window
- Window operations
- Secondary windows
- Menu bars
- Toolbars
- Ribbons
- Status bar
- Controls
- Input: General
- Interaction: Selection operations
- Interaction: Editing operations
- Interaction: Transfer operations
- Windows user assistance and help
- Writing for desktop applications
- Web interfaces
- Client-server explained
- Client-server performance issues
- Performance
- Websites
- Web apps
- Designing a web interface
- Platform or browser
- How to kill an interface
- Use the wrong mental model
- Confuse the user
- Use controls incorrectly
- Use tabs incorrectly
- Be inconsistent
- Take away control
- Write poorly
- Use color poorly
- Use icons poorly
- Use layout poorly
- Interface checklist
- Layouts or views
- Spatial views
- Alphanumeric views
- Categorical views
- Timeline views
- Hierarchical views
- Selecting secondary viewing methods
- Low-fidelity prototypes
- Types of prototypes
- Low-fidelity prototypes explained
- Advantages of low-fidelity prototypes
- Disadvantages of low-fidelity prototyping
- What to show in a low-fidelity prototype
- How to create a low-fidelity prototype
Duration: 2 Months
Price: 100,000