#7 Experience Design (XD)

#7 Experience Design (XD)

It is the practice of designing products, processes, services, events and environments with a focus placed on the quality of the user experience and culturally relevant solutions.

While designing we should follow these steps:

Find your user needs: Each user demographic has a need that you are fulfilling. By defining why a user will visit your site, you can begin to build the design and content framework.

Identify your capabilities and constraints: Identify what you can do. Consider free web design services to start with.

Determine the best user experience: Combine your user needs with the key elements of your design layout. Key design elements include: post volume, visual and text weight and design simplicity (e.g. ESPN is complex while Disney is simple). If you are a photographer, consider a design layout with many large images and little text.

 Launch and test: The next step is to experiment to find the right design. Get customer feedback. If you can, ask prospective users to select their favorite layout and ask why they chose it. This will help you select a targeted design layout. Next it’s time to launch the site and gather user data. Google Analytics offers webmasters a website overlay to identify where users are clicking most often.

One of my favorite sites of user experience is http://www.shutterfly.com. It allows me to be creative, helps me to tell my own story in my own way. Has great designs and guides me in every step. Very easy to follow the steps and create the photo book or other albums. Other than this my all time favorite is http://www.google.com because of its huge options and ease and convenience.

User experience and usability have become synonymous, but these two fields are clearly distinct. UX addresses how a user feels when using a system, while usability is about the user-friendliness and efficiency of the interface.
Usability is big part of the user experience and plays a major role in experiences that are effective and pleasant, but then human factors science, psychology, information architecture and user-centered design principles also play major roles.