This week's UX class covers good design, brainstorming and concepting, sketching, design rules of thumb, and the art of critique. There's a LOT of sketching exercises. Learn by doing!
These are lecture slides for the User Experience class I'm teaching at SVC. Learn more here: http://svc-ux1.leannagingras.com/
20. Menus: Example of organizing genre to help the user quickly zoom into what they want.
21. Kickstarter has several groupings here: Information related to a featured project, kickstarter categories, and Seattle
kickstarter projects.
22. Pick an organization principle that makes sense for the content and context. For example, sometimes alphabetical
organization makes sense and sometimes it doesn’t.
26. Kickstarter is a good example of visual hierarchy that does what it should: elevate the most important
elements to the user. Note that the biggest element on the page isn’t stanard: $money$
27. SongCloud stream is a good example of organization and visual hierarchy.
Presents it song-first and associates all of the related action s with that.
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29. Go where the action is:
Putting this sign on top of the thermostat is more effective than putting it in the break room or kitchen.
41. This site’s structure is broad, deep in some places, narrow in others, and has a single instance of a
third level - (probably) not very good curation of choices.
42. This is a more consistent and guided structure.
43. A sitemap from my colleague Dan Cooney. He can’t just get rid of pages, so he will creates a
hierarchy that will make it easy for the user to narrow down to what they want.
44. How can we make this better?
Eastern Mountain Sports
50. Example: this is a later iteration of a sketch.
It has just enough detail to communicate the core design idea, no more.
51. Since sketches are fast, lo-fi and disposable, they’re perfect for brainstorming, capturing options, and
exploring ideas without getting lost in the details.
55. I needed a responsive menu that works for a big retailer. First, I generated a bunch of ideas and
patterns to make it easier to compare my options.
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57. I picked a couple and fleshed them out a little bit.
58. I knew something similar to Option 4 - the off-canvas sliding menu - had worked for Trina Turk.
59. ...but I wasn’t sure how it would work for a site with two levels of hierarchy, so I sketched it out a little
more and refined from there.
74. Studio
If you don’t have a project, find someone who does.
Get on the same page re: project goals.
Pick a key task & sketch for 5 minutes.
Then bring your ideas together & work on it together.