Product Designing & Ui/Ux

Week 1: UX Research & Product Strategy (The Foundation)

• Design Thinking Process: Understanding the 5 stages: Empathize, Define, Ideate, Prototype, and Test.

• User Research & Empathy: Conducting user interviews and creating User Personas to represent target audience needs and pain points.

• Information Architecture (IA): Mapping out user flows and sitemaps to organize content logically before drawing a single line.

• Wireframing (Low-Fidelity): Translating ideas into skeletal structures using paper sketches or digital tools like Balsamiq/Figma to focus on functionality over aesthetics.

• Usability Principles: Applying Heuristic Evaluation and Gestalt Principles to ensure the product is intuitive and accessible.

Week 2: UI Design & Interactive Prototyping (The Visuals)

• Visual Design Systems: Mastering typography hierarchies, color theory (60-30-10 rule), and grid systems for consistent layouts.

• Figma Mastery: Leveraging Auto-Layout, Components, and Variants to build a scalable and professional Design System.

• High-Fidelity UI Design: Transforming wireframes into polished, pixel-perfect interfaces with imagery, icons, and branding.

• Interaction Design: Creating clickable prototypes with advanced transitions, overlays, and smart-animates to simulate a real app experience.

• Testing & Handoff: Conducting “Think Aloud” usability tests on prototypes and preparing developer handoff files (inspecting CSS properties and exporting assets).

• Capstone Project: Designing a complete “Problem-Solver” app—from initial research and user personas to a fully interactive, high-fidelity prototype.