What you'll learn

You will be able to spot more usability issues.
You will get into the habit of classifying usability issues according to the ISO definition.
Your heightened usability intuition will boost your empathy towards users.
By spotting many issues early on, you will get to good designs in fewer iterations.

Requirements

Be prepared to spend about 2-3 days with the exercises.
You should have a basic understanding of UX and Usability.
No special tools are needed.

Description

Usability intuition is the skill of noticing usability issues in your daily life and in the digital products you work on.

As Jakob Nielsen pointed out 90% of UX skills come from on-the-job learning, only 10% you can learn in classrooms. Usability intuition is one of the "on-the-job" type of skills. Fortunately, there is a way to practice it outside the job, using the exercises in this course.

As a UX Research Lead in a 16 UXer strong team, I see usability intuition as a key skill to speed up design work, because this skill can prevent many usability problems from happening right in the 1st iteration. As a bonus, those of us, who are versed in usability intuition, can see product opportunities that others can't.

Please note, this is a hands-on course. We won't cover any theory on usability or related fields.

Who this course is for:

UX Designers who would like to spot more usability issues early on and get to a good design in fewer iterations.
UX Researchers who would like to sharpen their sensitivity and get more data out of user sessions.
Product Creators, Startuppers, Product Managers who would like to recognize (usability) opportunities when they see them.