UX Series: Designing Web Navigation
Eva Kaniasty, User Experience Consultant
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Trailer
1:44 -
Housekeeping
4:12 -
IA in Context
5:15 -
Classification / Organizational Schemes
2:57 -
Design Patterns
9:22 -
Competitive Review
7:22 -
Content Inventory/Content Audit
6:20 -
Affinity Diagramming
5:12 -
Site Mapping
4:24 -
Design Concepts (Gestalt)
8:21 -
Sketching, Wireframing & Prototyping Basics
6:28 -
Balsamiq Walkthrough
19:37 -
Solidify Walkthrough
8:55
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About This Class
In this project-based class, you will design navigation and a home page for a moderately complex website. The goal of the class is to introduce you to the user experience design process and Information Architecture (IA), the discipline concerned with organizing information for the web.
Along the way, you will be introduced to a number of IA methods & tools, including competitive research, design patterns, site mapping, wireframing & prototyping. You'll leave the class with a site map and simple prototype that you can use as a portfolio piece or as the starting point for a real world website redesign.
This class is approppriate for:
- User experience students
- Those wishing to transition into a UX role from another discipline (dev, marketing, visual design, tech writing, etc.)
- UXers building their portfolio
- Project & product managers, designers and developers who need to understand UX design
Students
Projects
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- Beginner
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- All Levels
- Beg/Int
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Level
Community Generated
The level is determined by a majority opinion of students who have reviewed this class. The teacher's recommendation is shown until at least 5 student responses are collected.
I am a UX design consultant who's gone through several versions of my own portfolio and want to share the lessons I've learned.
I am the founder of Red Pill UX, a user experience consultancy providing strategy, research and interaction design in the Boston area. I've worked in a range of industries, including healthcare, education, finance, and software. I received my Master's in Human Factors from Bentley University in 2007, serve as President of UXPA Boston, and am a repeat presente...