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User Experience Screen Design

We want to teach you all we know about screen design and layout. We've seen a lot of common design pitfalls you can learn to avoid, and we can teach you what makes web pages and GUI screens easy to use.

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Introduction
Course Overview
What You Will Learn
Exercise 1: Your design problems

Key Drivers of the Design
How many people are using it
How often are they using it
The stick or the carrot

Training and support
Looking for the path most travelled
What? We don't all work in cubicles?
Users real goals

Overall Structure
Rearranging the deck chairs
High-level UI structures
Metaphors, themes, branding
Unifying the design
Navigation
Content

Common Workflows
Forms
Menus
List Management
Dialogues and Messages
Exercise 2: Let's Practice

Common Elements
Web based
GUI based
Guidelines for using
When to create new ones
Exercise 3: Using the guidelines

Designing For Usability
Layout, Graphics, Background, Colour,
Fonts, Links, Readability, The Page,
The Home Page, Menus
Exercise 4: Evaluating Your Design

Designing for Accessibility
Why it's important
Types of accessibility issues
Imbedding into your initial design

The Workshop
Exercise 5: Applying what we have learned to your design problems