UX Design Process Best Practices

Free guide explains how to minimize UX busywork. 6 chapters with best practices for planning, requirements, research, design, and user testing.

• Forget deliverables: know only the most useful UX processes & documents.
• Know documentation best practices for requirements gathering, user research, UI design, usability testing, and design sprints.
• Written based on our own experience in planning, designing, and testing UXPin in the past few years.

Contents

1. Minimizing UX Design Busywork
2. Informing Initial UX Requirements
3. Mapping Out Your Users
4. Design as Documentation
5. A Practical Approach to Usability Testing
6. Design Sprints: Condensing the UX Process

About the Author

Jerry Cao

Jerry Cao is a UX Content Strategist at UXPin. In his spare time he enjoys playing electric guitar, watching foreign horror films, and expanding his knowledge of random facts.

Ben Gremillion

Ben Gremillion is a Content Designer at UXPin. Previously, he was a Design Writer at ZURB. He started in newspaper design, saw a digital future, and learned HTML/CSS in short order. He later earned an Adobe Certification, and learned up regex, PHP, MySQL, and other impressive-sounding acronyms. He also builds and maintains a CMS for webcomic artists, and participates in bi-annual NaNoWriMo challenges.

Kamil Zieba

Co-founder and head of product at UXPin, Kamil previously worked as a UX/UI Designer at Grupa Nokaut. He studied software engineering in university, but design and psychology have always been his greatest passions. Follow me on Twitter @ziebak.

Matt Ellis

With a passion for writing and an interest in everything anything related to design or technology, Matt Ellis found freelance writing best suited his skills and allowed him to be paid for his curiosity. Having worked with various design and tech companies in the past, he feels quite at home at UXPin as the go-to writer, researcher, and editor. When he’s not writing, Matt loves to travel, another byproduct of curiosity.