UX Weblink Summary: The Five Steps to a Succesful UX Design (January 31, 2020)

This first week of class also saw me reading another article for class, this one from an article that talks about UX. Basically it’s a little re-hash of the introductory chapter that the class read, but it does go in-depth as to what UX Designers do, which is that they must be general with a high-level understanding of various aspects in order to make the design/app/technology suitable and meets the needs of the user.

The article also list five steps as a good way of developing a successful UX design (the article says four, but there is a fifth step inserted in — obviously a typo on the author’s part): I think the first step is really important, which is to pay attention to the products that are of daily use. Any product that offers something that needs to be improved is a sure way of letting someone know that a) this product needs to be updated and b) this product needs to be of useful benefit to either me or anybody else that sees the potential use of a product’s upgrade/another app.

Finding a problem that interests you, start making designs and getting it in front of them, and recording what you have learned are the other four steps that the author discusses.

Hopefully this journal entry and others will come in handy when we begin our group project in a matter of weeks.

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