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David Brandt
2,864 PointsSeeking UX design path
I've explored Web development and decided that it wasn't a rabbit hole I believed would help me thrive. User experience, however, complements my love of coding with my journalism background. Does anyone have any thoughts on which Treehouse tracks or courses I should follow that would lead to a strong foundation in UX learning?
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David Moorhead
18,005 PointsHi, David.
Yes, I've some ideas since completing two days ago Lis Hubert's Treehouse course titled UX Basics. (You might've already completed it.) She described her course as "high-level overview", and there are several resources she made available throughout the course.
Lis referenced two books, namely, The Design of Everyday Things by Donald Norman and Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, 3rd Edition by Peter Morville and Lewis Rosenfeld, both of which will be first purchases once I've indulged too much code and the brain has turned pudding-ish.
A favored quote by Lis from Treehouse's UX video class titled Everything is Content:
Beyond the interface, beyond the web, beyond the digital to a place where you see the world as a system of users interacting with all different content in many different contexts, you will be, in essence, a UX Yoda, and there will be no problem out there you can't solve.
Another favored quote by Lis from Treehouse's UX video class titled Thinking Big in Order to Think Small:
People are users walking through processes, like using content within a certain technology or context. Why, that is how we create a user experience. Thus, by thinking of the user's experience as one with a system, they can behave and interact with the environment.
As an aside, I plan asking people whom I meet at the next local meetup the names of UXers in the area. I've also thought who in upper echelons at Treehouse might consider themselves UXers, and why. Interesting, eh?
If need be, I'd be your advocate for UX practices.
Thoughts?
David
David Moorhead
18,005 PointsDavid Moorhead
18,005 PointsOops! David, I didn't put words as answer to your query. My apologies.
Here's my answer: From what I've seen in the Library, it doesn't appear Team Treehouse is keen on User Experience nor User-Centered Design, because the practice of UX requires concentrated intuitive listening to others for, well, for most people, I'm guessing a longer period of time than first presumed.
Reading books and taking courses for learning UX is one thing, and quite another thing to work in the field with a UX tutor or coach. I believe an eventual full-out professional UXer would've only touched the preliminaries offered by Treehouse via Hubert's UX course.
Further, Adobe offers online UX lessons, and I'm thinking those presentations would be diluted attempts for a strong UX foundation. My two cents. DM