Certified Usability Analyst (CUA) (SF) (Synchronous e-learning)

About This Course

Module 1 - User Experience (UX) Foundations:
How good user experience design is dependent on a scientific understanding of how people function. How the key research-based models, insights, and principles in the UX field impact design. This includes aspects of human:
• Vision
• Intellect
• Memory
• Motor control
Various methods that directly apply these models, insights, and principles to design of interactive applications. Variation in users that impact design. Understand the challenges of survey design
• Individual differences
• Disability
• Cultural differences
Sources of research and insights for UX professional. How to tell if you can believe the research. Pathways to excellence in the UX profession
Module 2 -User-Centered Analysis and Conceptual Design:
• Develop a design strategy
• Create user profiles, personas and scenarios
• Develop meaningful interview questions
• Carry out effective interviews
• Understand the challenges of survey design
• Analyze task flow
• Understand and identify primary nouns
• Develop user-driven information architecture
• Engage in user-centered task/tool redesign

Module 3 – The Science and Art of Effective Web and Application Design:
• Identify, select, and implement appropriate navigation models used to build intuitive navigation structures
• Make better decisions and recommendations to improve visual design, including: layout, color, graphics and icons, and text.
• Implement effective usability-based content organization and treatment methods
• Ensure intuitive interaction through appropriate UI control selection and error and feedback design
• Increase design efficiency using Web and application standards
• Extend their UCD sphere of influence into the domains of user experience, accessibility, and cross-cultural design

Module 4 - Practical Usability Testing:
• Survey the scope of usability issues
• Know the four factors that drive your testing
• Know the appropriate test and when to use it