UX Concepts

User Experience (UX) is a person's emotions and attitudes about using a particular product, system or service. It includes the practical, experimental, affective, meaningful and valuable aspects of human-computer interaction and product ownership. Additionally, it includes a person's perceptions of system aspects such as utility, ease of use and efficiency.

UX may be subjective in nature to the degree that it is about individual perception and thought with respect to a system. UX varies dynamically, constantly modifying over time to changing usage circumstances and to changes to individual systems as well as to the wider usage context in which they operate.

To do a quick reap: UX is about how a user interats with and experieces a product.

UX Concepts

Factors that Influence UX

At the core of UX is ensuring that users find value in what you are providing to them.

The factors that influence UX, as noted by Peter Morville, are listed below:

Useful - Your content should be original and fulfill a need.
Usable - Site must be easy to use.
Desirable - Image, identity, brand, and other design elements are used to evoke emotion and appreciation.
Findable - Content needs to be navigate and locatable onsite and offsite.
Accessible - Content needs to be accessible to people with disabilities.
Credible - Users must trust and believe what you tell them.

Areas Related to Building the User Experience

UX is a growing field that is very much still being defined. Creating a successful user-created design encompasses the principles of human-computer interaction (HCI) and goes further to include the following disciplines:

Project Management - Focuses on planning and organizing a project and its resources. This includes identifying and managing the lifecycle to be used, applying it to the user-centered design process, formulating the project team, and efficiently guiding the team through all phrases until project completion.
User Research - Focuses on understading user behaviours, needs, and motivations through observation techniques, task analysis, and other feedback methodologies.
Usability Evalution - Focuses on how well users can learn and use a product to achieve their goals. It also refers to how satisfied users are with that process.
Information Architecture - Focuses on how information is organized, structured, and presented to users.
UI Design - Focuses on anticipating what users might need to do and ensuring that the interface has elements that are easy to access, understand, and use to facilitate those actions.
Interaction Design - Focuses on creating engaging interactive systems with well thought out behaviours.
Visual Design - Focuses on ensuring an aesthetically pleasing interface that is in line with brand goals.
Content Strategy - Focuses on writing and curatig useful content by planning the creation, delivery and governance behind it.
Accessibility - Focuses on how a disabled individual accesses or benefits from a site, system or application.
Web Analytics - Focuses on the collection, reporting, and analysis of website data.

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