Do you want to start implementing a UX Design strategy and you don’t know how to get started? Check out our UX Design checklist to help you get started, plan and improve your web projects.
UX Design Checklist
Investigate
Analyze the competition
To start the UX checklist, find out how your competition solved certain problems and make sure you’re doing something wrong.
Analyze the data
Take inventory of the data you have and see how useful it is. This can be data such as clicks, pageviews, conversions, etc.
Get user feedback
Find out what the user experience was like.
Plan
Write User Stories
This is useful for training people. Analyze your users and create people from them by analyzing scenarios.
Trace user streams
Begin doing this based on the scenarios from the previous step. This will be useful in creating wireframes.
Clear the path
Define routes for your product and you can identify, prioritize and eliminate obstacles to usability. This is an important point in UX Design’s checklist.
Explore
Brainstorm
Hold meetings with your team. Exchange ideas and write down ideas that may seem crazy.
Organize your ideas
Formalize your ideas and sketches to use in wireframes. Reuse valid user streams and pages from previous projects.
Start the prototypes
Start with sketches on paper and then switch to HTML.
Communicate
Create Information Architecture
Try to understand your users and how your data is structured. Organize site navigation in a clear and understandable way.
Speak users language
Analyze in what context your product will be used and by whom. How do these people talk? Are they formal or casual? How can your business adapt to these contexts?
Analyze the level of accessibility
Analyze accessibility for your users. For example, do they use mobile devices more?
Create
Identify important UI elements
In a UX Design checklist, UI Design is very important. Draw the elements of UI based on the lines created by you.
Identify important signs
Once again, what devices will users use to access content?
Decide the levels of adaptability
Adapt your content to different devices, such as computers, tablets or smartphones.
Give feedback
Loading speed
Does your site delay opening? Did you simulate bad connections to the internet?
Deal with mistakes
If your users have done something wrong, clarify them. If you did something wrong, let them know and apologize.
Design complete actions
Notify users when they have completed some action on the site. For example, if they made a purchase, let them know if it was successful or not.
Finalize
Finish the final layout
Create a first version of your final layout, then another and then another one, until you find that you are as you want.
Set the images and icons
Test and analyze the use of icons and images. See which are the most relevant images and where to put the icons.
Define the type and color hierarchy
Take the lines of the UI elements and define a hierarchy of typography and colors.
Enchant
Create “micro-copy”
Much of the design is copywriting. “Micro-copy” is small pieces of text used to create more emotional bonds with users.
Define and design micro interactions
Interface interactions that focus on solving a single, simple task.
Define and draw transitions
Harmonize the transitions with the rest of the system. Use them only to enforce the existing UI.
Analyze
Create a KPI document
Write the successes and failures of the project and list the most important performance indicators (KPIs).
Define a plan for A/B tests
Your initial design should not be the end. Make improvements through A / B tests.
Test
Be careful to test, see what can be improved and fixed, always!
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