User-centered design (UCD) is an iterative design process in which designers focus on the users and their needs in each phase of the design process. In UCD, design teams involve users throughout the design process via a variety of research and design techniques, to create highly usable and accessible products for them. Table of contents.
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User experience (UX) design is the process design teams use to create products that provide meaningful and relevant experiences to users. UX design involves the design of the entire process of acquiring and integrating the product, including aspects of branding, design, usability and function. Show video transcript.
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Visual Design Principles. The elements of visual design — line, shape, negative/white space, volume, value, colour and texture — describe the building blocks of a product’s aesthetics. On the other hand, the principles of design tell us how these elements can and should go together for the best results.
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Learn to Apply the 7 Principles of Universal Design. Principle 1: Equitable Use. Guidelines for Equitable Use. Design Example: Use strong color contrast to avoid stigmatizing users with color blindness. Principle 2: Flexibility in Use. Guidelines for Flexibility in Use.
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Usability is a measure of how well a specific user in a specific context can use a product/design to achieve a defined goal effectively, efficiently and satisfactorily. Designers usually measure a design’s usability throughout the development process—from wireframes to the final deliverable—to ensure maximum usability.
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Design thinking is a non-linear, iterative process that teams use to understand users, challenge assumptions, redefine problems and create innovative solutions to prototype and test. It is most useful to tackle ill-defined or unknown problems and involves five phases: Empathize, Define, Ideate, Prototype and Test.
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15. Be consistent with navigational mechanisms, organizational structure, etc., to make a stable, reliable and predictable design. 16. Create an excellent first impression. 17. Be trustworthy and credible – identify yourself through your design to assure users and eliminate the uncertainty.
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Web design used to be focused on designing websites for desktop browsers; however, since the mid-2010s, design for mobile and tablet browsers has become ever-increasingly important. A web designer works on a website's appearance, layout, and, in some cases, content. Appearance relates to the colors, typography, and images used.
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Emotion and website design. By Dianne Cyr. This chapter is about hedonic or affective elements (footnote 1) of website design and the potential of such design to elicit emotion in the user. In an online environment hedonic elements of website design include color, images, shapes, and use of photographs, among other characteristics, which are ...
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Interaction design can be understood in simple (but not simplified) terms: it is the design of the interaction between users and products. Most often when people talk about interaction design, the products tend to be software products like apps or websites. The goal of interaction design is to create products that enable the user to achieve ...
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