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UX Design Foundations: Research, Accessibility, and Iterative Practice

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Summary

User experience design shapes how people experience a company, product, or service. This lesson introduces UX design, its history, and how it differs from user interface design.

User experience design (UX design, UXD, UED, or XD) defines the experience a person has when interacting with a company, its services, and its products. It considers more than what appears on a screen: it includes how useful, usable, desirable, understandable, and reliable the experience feels.

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What does UX design consider?
The connected experience of interacting with a company, product, or service, including usefulness, usability, and desirability.
What is a mental model in UX research?
The expectations and beliefs people use to make sense of how something works.
How does UX design differ from UI design?
UI design focuses on interfaces; UX design considers the broader experience of using a product or service.
Why should usability testing evaluate the design rather than the user?
Testing is intended to reveal design problems and opportunities for improvement, not judge a user's ability or worth.
What does pixel-perfect precision establish?
It describes fidelity to the intended design, but does not by itself establish usefulness, accessibility, or ease of use.

Quiz questions

  1. Which four principles are summarized by WCAG's POUR acronym?Answer: Perceivable, Operable, Understandable, and Robust
  2. What is the primary focus of human–computer interaction (HCI)?Answer: The design, evaluation, and implementation of interactive systems for human use
  3. What is a UX persona?Answer: A composite archetype based on behavior patterns identified through research
  4. What is a key purpose of annotations on wireframes?Answer: To explain design decisions and help developers implement the intended experience
  5. What does A/B testing do in UX work?Answer: It quantitatively compares design versions using user responses or outcomes

Based on the Wikipedia article User experience design, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Adapted into a summary, flashcards and quizzes.

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