Introduction to User Experience
Introduction to User Experience

I am learning a course on Edx that is an introduction to design thinking, just I finished the first module. Now I am sharing what I have learned. ishimdar ahamad Aug 5, 2019·3 min read

We’ve all had good and bad experiences with products that we use in our daily lives.

What is Good UX?

When we are thinking about good user experience then in our mind come some words like this.

Useful, Helpful, Easy to Learn, Attractive, Satisfying, Accessible, Fun, Connected, Delightful.

What is a Bad UX?

When we might think of bad user experience then in our mind come to some words like this.

Stressful, Ugly, Confusing, Inefficient, Distracting, Tedious, Frustrating, Condescending, Inconsiderate.

Why User Experience?

The experience people have when they interact with your product that means they are using the product. They choosing the product from among the myriad of other products that might be out there. Acquiring the product, how do they actually go from selecting the product to getting it in their hands so that they can actually use it. User experience also includes upgrading the product, or purchasing the next product, or starting to use the next version of the product, and so on, and so forth.

Why User Experience Hard?

* We as designer are not the user. Even if we are a potential user of this product, we did not represent all users. It’s very important that first, we understand who the users are?

* Some time Ux dealing with software then computer think differently than people.

* Some time product that we designing are complex because of the fact that they’re software-based and it’s so easy to add new features.

How to make UX Easy?

* We follow an iterative prototyping process.

* We do that by applying user-centered research and design methods and we have a whole set of these that we know will work to keep the design on track and

* Know a little bit about how people work. And what we know will help them accomplish what they need to accomplish.

* Choosing a target user, research methodologies

Key Method for UX Research:

* We often conduct interviews to understand more about users’ needs and how they currently do things.

* We conduct observations to actually watch what people do and how they do it to understand things that they might not be able to tell us

* Sometimes we conduct surveys, especially when we’re wanting to reach a very large audience, and we need to understand characteristics and behaviors and attitudes of that large audience.

* We use user testing to take a prototype or a system that we’ve developed and figured out whether or not people are able to accomplish what they need with that prototype or system.

* We also apply a range of inspection methods where we can use best practices and knowledge about what works and what doesn’t to take a close look at a prototype or representation of a system to determine whether it’s on track for delivering a good user experience or not.

Conclusion

1: Design approach could help designers know what the product should be, based on a target user’s perspective.

2: Product’s usability design is more important to retain the target audience. Even if the product is the first of it’s kind, users will jump to other similar products if it is unusable to the users.

3: Usability is also a factor for product success.

4: Need finding is a good foundation for designing a product.

5: Need finding is necessary to establish not just the product but also the stakeholder’s business model.
['Ishimdar Ahamad']
['User Experience', 'UX', 'First Post']