Course 2 of 7 / week 2 — In a previous article, I shared my experience of building an empathy map, identifying pain points, and creating personas for a job search application. In this article I will tell you what the user story and a user journey map are. User story A user story is a fictional one-sentence story told…

Course 2 of 7 / week 1. Part 2 — In a previous article, we talked about how important empathy is in the design process. I shared how I prepared for the interview and what questions I was asking during the interview. …

Part 1 — I’m so excited to start learning course 2 of 7 because it’s time to put the knowledge into practice. So, let’s get started Choose your portfolio project After the introduction to the course, we need to choose a project that we will create over the next few courses. …

During four weeks of the first of seven courses, I learned more about UX research and how important to anticipate, identify, and overcome biases in research UX research. What does it mean? UX research focuses on understanding user behaviors, needs, and motivations through observation and feedback. …

Google UX Design Certificate. Course 1 of 7 / Week 3 — One way how we can go from a design challenge to an actual user-centered product is a design sprint. And the third week is dedicated to this. Let’s talk about the main phases of design sprint. Design sprint. What does it mean? A design sprint is a time-bound process with five phases typically spread out over…

Google UX Design Certificate. Course 1 of 7 / Week 2 — In the second week of the Google Design Certificate, I learned about user-centered design, assistive technology, design thinking, and a lot of other really useful information. I want to share main thoughts User-centered design User-centered design puts the user front and center. …

Google UX Design Certificate. Course 1 of 7 / Week 1 — I want to share brief notes that I made during the first week of this course What Does User Experience Actually Mean? The user experience is how a person, the user, feels about interacting with or experiencing a product How many types of UX designers are there? Interaction Designers Interaction designers strive to understand the user flow, or the path, that a typical user takes to…