User Experience Design & User Interface Design Fundamentals

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Einführung

Lecture 1: Intro and welcome to this course!

Lecture 2: What is User Experience Design?

Lecture 3: The Process of Designing a User Experience

Chapter 2: User Experience Design Fundamentals

Lecture 1: The Hierarchy of Needs

Lecture 2: Introduction to User Personas

Lecture 3: Research, Personas and Affinity Diagrams

Lecture 4: How to create an Affinity Diagram

Lecture 5: User Stories and User Scenarios

Lecture 6: Practice Task – Create your own Persona using a Template

Lecture 7: Empathy Maps

Lecture 8: Introduction to Use Cases

Lecture 9: Use Case Example – Reply to an Email in an App

Lecture 10: Information Architecture Basics

Lecture 11: Card Sorting

Lecture 12: Creating a meaningful Information Architecture with Card Sorting

Lecture 13: Jakob's Law, Mental Models and Metaphors

Lecture 14: Visual Prototyping for Low and High Fidelity

Lecture 15: Why User Research is essential in UX Design

Lecture 16: Methods of User Research

Chapter 3: How Design Thinking and Lean UX help us build better User Experiences

Lecture 1: Design Thinking in User Experience Design

Lecture 2: Introduction to the 7 Design Principles of Lean Development and Lean UX

Lecture 3: The four phase model of Lean UX Design

Chapter 4: The 10 Usability Heuristics for User Interface Design

Lecture 1: Heuristics

Chapter 5: User Interface Design – Colors

Lecture 1: Introduction to Color in UID

Lecture 2: Color Combinations and Schemes

Lecture 3: Introduction to the HSB System

Lecture 4: Using HSB

Lecture 5: Color Psychology – How different colors affect our emotions Part 1

Lecture 6: Color Psychology – How different colors affect our emotions Part 2

Lecture 7: Creating a Mood Board to get a better feeling for your color scheme

Chapter 6: Why we have to use Grids in our Design

Lecture 1: Why grids are such an important design element

Chapter 7: How Motion and Movement affect our User Interface

Lecture 1: The three Principles of Motion – Informative, Focused and Expressive

Lecture 2: Using Motion to communicate hierarchical relations

Lecture 3: Using Motion for Feedback and Communication

Lecture 4: Using Animations and Motion to guide the user

Lecture 5: Motion and Animation as a Branding Tool

Lecture 6: The Anatomy of Transitions

Lecture 7: The Continuity of Animations: Tweening and Fading

Lecture 8: The Continuity of Animations: Shared Transformations

Lecture 9: How Complexity, Purpose and Spatial Extent affect our Animation Speed

Lecture 10: The different types of Easing we should know and use in our Animations

Chapter 8: Typography – How to use Text in User Interface Design

Lecture 1: The difference between Text and Typography

Lecture 2: Alignment and Negative Space

Lecture 3: Fonts: Size, Weight and Lines

Lecture 4: The main goal for our text is to be readable