Some past notes from Google Professional course on UX design

Roles 

• Entry-level 
  • Research 
  • Wireframe 
  • Prototype 
  • Creating information architecture 
  • Communicating effectively 
• Interaction designer 
• Visual designer 
• Motion designer 
• UX researcher 
• UX writer 
• UX program manager 
• UX engineer 
• Conversation designer     

Skill types 

• Specialists 
• Generalist 
• T-shaped   

User experience 

• How a person, the user, feels about interacting with or experiencing a product 
  • Usable 
    • Clear and easy to use 
  • Equitable 
    • Address needs of people with diverse abilities and background 
  • Enjoyable 
    • Postive connections with users and inspire positive reaction from users 
  • Useful 
    • Solves user problems 
• Business value 
  • Good experience leads to more users and recommendations   

Design process 

• Understand 
• Specify 
• Design 
• Evaluate     

Product development life cycle 

• Brainstorm: 
  • Know the user problem want to solve and have ideas 
• Define: 
  • Figure out specifications for the product 
• Design: 
  • Wireframe prototypes 
• Test 
  • Internal test 
  • Stakeholder test 
  • Potential user test 
• Launch: 
  • Go live!       

Key frameworks 

Five elements framework 

• Turn idea into working product 
  • Strategy 
  • Scope 
    • Determine features 
  • Structure 
    • Figure out how to organize design and how users interacts 
  • Skeleton 
  • Surface 
    • Where users see 

Design thinking framework 

• Create solutions that address problems  
  • Empathize 
    • Think and feel like users 
    • Through research, interviews… 
  • Define 
    • Problem statement 
  • Ideate 
    • Come up ideas (Focus on quantity) 
  • Prototype 
  • Test 

Challenges 

Issues of users 

• Cost 
  • May not afford good device 
  • ram 
• Connectivity 
  • Continuous access to internet 
  • Giving ability for user to load offline 
• Digital literacy 
  • Clear guidance 
  • Video tutorials 
• Literacy   

Accesibility

• Major 4 types 
  • Cognitive 
  • Visual 
  • Motor 
  • deaf or hard of hearing 
• Status 
  • Permanent 
  • Temporary 
  • Situational 
• Equity focused design     

UX design tools 

Wireframe and prototyping tools 

• Figma 
• Adobe XD 
• Sketch 
• Framer   

Presentation tools 

• Google slides 
• Powerpoint 
• Keynote   

Image creation tools 

• illustrator 
• Photoshop   

Animation tools 

• Lottie 
• Aftereffect   

Research 

• Usability test 
• Interview 
• Survey