Design Media 2 introduced User Experience (UX) Design and fundamentals of User Interface (UI) Design in context to digital and web communications. We followed the four phases of User Centered Design to discover, define, design, and deliver a web product. In the first two phases, we were introduced to methods designed to meet and understand users needs, in the third and fourth phase we learned techniques to model a user interface and develop a product.
The class introduces:
"Double Diamond" UCD Process
History of Web Development
7 Fundamentals of Good Interactions / 10 Heuristics
HTML/CSS
Responsive Design
Accessibility
CSS Frameworks
Tools we used:
Figma/Figjam - for white boarding and prototyping
Codepen - HTML and CSS authoring
Optimal Workshop - user research
WebAim Wave - Accessibility evaluation
Adobe Portfolio - digital process
