Timeless Interaction Patterns
What You’ll Learn
- Why Interaction Matters
- Fundamentals of Filtering Information
Working With Atomic Design
What You’ll Learn
- Identify the basic design elements that make up your website
- Use these elements to create smart, scalable, maintainable designs
- Convince everyone back at the office to ditch ad-hoc design and embrace a pattern-based workflow
- Unite disparate teams and departments to build designs that deliver a consistent experience across multiple platforms
Growing Your Userbase with Better Onboarding
Frustration drives people to sign up for products in hopes of improving their lives. The space between the intolerable “before” and the ideal “after” is your project’s “improvement trajectory.” And once this is defined, it’s easier to identify key moments in the customer journey and match them to design patterns.
Samuel shares strategies that help you stop hemorrhaging signups. You’ll learn to create quality onboarding experiences that target your users’ frustrations and move them from A to B in their lives, instead of just A to B in your app.
Help Users Decide
What You’ll Learn
- An awareness of common design patterns that don’t serve your content
- Ways to create immediate feedback loops to grab users’ attention and keep it
- Techniques to design for hands-on, interactive experiments that promote learning
- Tools to prepare for future “knowledge discovery” environments
The Many Uses of Application Maps
What You’ll Learn
- Make good choices about which design patterns to use and why.
- Simplify your organization’s most gnarly, overgrown interfaces.
- Isolate overwhelming clutter and update one design element at a time.
- Develop a clear language to communicate UI design across teams.
Designing Rich Interactive Experiences
What You’ll Learn
- Build smart user interfaces that are driven by content, controls, or data.
- Break up IA while achieving seamless flows and intuitive interactivity.
- Improve animations by focusing on what can be simplified rather than added.
- Create meaningful experiences by using standard design patterns in elegant ways.
Organization Schemes for Web Content
What You’ll Learn
- Determine when to use schemes from the exact category
- Determine when to use schemes from the ambiguous category
- Use combinations of schemes to further organize your content
- Decide which organizational scheme or schemes you should use