Which Is A Good App Design Practice Certification

Application Design for Web and Desktop

Topics Covered

Strategy and design considerations for apps
- Ease of use
- Learnability and learning curves
- Usefulness vs. usability and how they impact user attitudes
- Web-based apps vs. native desktop apps
App structure: how to present it to users
- Task presentation
- Modules
- Control panels
- Menus & direct manipulation
Workflows
- Wizards
- Guiding users through complex tasks or complex information
- Modes and views
  - Different modes for different tasks
  - Reusing the same UI elements in different modes
- Screen splitting and dealing with multiple sources of information
- Repetitive tasks
- Minimizing user effort
  - Autosuggestion & autocomplete
  - Predicting users' next steps
Presenting and interacting with complex data
- Information-visualization techniques
  - Focus + context
  - Tree maps
- Managing large datasets
  - Filtering data and accessing data subsets
- Dashboards
Input, data entry, and selection
- Forms vs. other methods of data input
Output and exporting data
Errors and feedback
Help
- Inline and contextual help and tips
- Documentation and tutorials
- Catering to both novice and expert users
- Progressive disclosure

Format

The basis of the course is a lecture format with a few group exercises to reinforce the learned principles and guidelines.

UX Certification Credit

Participant Comments

"The instructor covered a lot of topics, the level of information is huge (coffee is available to keep you focused). It is great being able to approach such experts, discuss, share ideas and ask for opinions!"

Klervi Coccolini, LogicNew

"Great overview of application design best practices. I wanted to keep learning!"

Aaron Gillihan, Medimmune

"Gives good context on how to make the appropriate choices of which patterns to use. Love the common pitfalls and what it's best used for. The redesign rollout strategy is most helpful."

Shanti Hadietomo, Intuit Canada

"If you're designing software, this course will feel in some parts like a direct brain-to-brain knowledge transfer addressing or solving a lot of your everyday problems. All insights are backed by research and are so generously actionable that during the course you will have your fair share of "aha" moments that will instantly improve your day to day work. Amazing quality, no fillers - just pure, distilled expertise."

Paweł Haicki, Nielsen Global Media, Warsaw, Poland

"Excellent course that's perfect for those of us who may not work on the sexiest of applications, but we want them to work!"

Lynne Venart, The Art Monkey

"I would suggest that if people's backgrounds are primarily web apps, or consumer facing apps, to really consider this course if they are going to go into back office apps, as it is very relevant for that. I have seen lots of people come from consumer world and try to apply those ideas here and some things aren't as appropriate, or become too dumbed down for intermediate/expert users."

Anup, DrDoctor, London, UK

"This course takes the participants through a very practical UX world and great presentation!"

Anupama Bonakurthi, Lexis Nexis, Cary, NC

"A good and thoughful approach to UX in the context of desktop and web applications."

Arturo Santos Bermejo, JCCM, Toledo, Spain

"I loved the course and thoroughly and would recommend to my friends and colleagues. I work on various Applications and it is immensely useful for me as I got lot of design solutions from this class, Page is great and is very knowledgable instructor in Application Design."

Shilpa, Metro-Markets.de, Germany

"Focused, great key takeaways, decent puns :) Also great to do some light weight exercises with others in the course. Group 9 forever."

Melinda Kilner, Gem, San Francisco USA

"I like this online course so much since I live so far away and there's not much good conference/course to attend here. This online conference can be a solution for me. I can learn and add more connection with great people around the world. this is highly recommended."

Jauza Gebri Akmalia, Omni App Solutions, Singapore

"This course is a great way to get your bearings when embarking on complex or specialized systems."

Dave Kealey, CDM Smith, Boston, MA, USA

"Very informative course, really enjoyed the content and the presentation!"

Daniel Isylgan, doxy.me, Kyiv, Ukraine

"I found every piece of content extremely interesting and well frundamented. I really appreciate the effort of jamming all this information in one day! Gracias!"

Lucas Saeed, Almundo

"Such a large amount of information. I drank it all in and tried to digest (think I need more days to look over and review!). But awesome - LOVED!"

Elysia Howell, Charles Schwab

"This course does a great job of covering the fundamental building blocks of interface design. Can't recommend highly enough!"

Paul Dixon, AIR Worldwide

"Really helped me come up with better table specification for the Design System at our company. Loved the arguments — statements used for defending UX maximus/research data or to debunk some LOB/Dev preconceptions. I feel well "armed" to go back to my redesign of a large legacy application."

Leah Novaes, DEXX

"Right amount of detail to understand the important concepts for desktop and web app design — and it definitely helps to have the references available for further reading!"

Steve Zappe, Minitab, Inc.

"Liked all the real world examples. Felt this course was a good overview of common issue/problem and how people are solving them. Of course, each solution is manual, but class was helpful to get the mind thinking about tested alternatives."

Alex Fleiner, Fisher Investments

"Fantastic course! Loved it. He is very approachable and explained things so well! I honestly learned so much!"

Nicolas Baroudi, Nationwide Insurance

"Really great course to take! Ties in concepts discouraged earlier in the week but also provides a great overview of common UX/UI application design aspects."

Tali Oliviera, Deloitte

"Excellent instructor. I really enjoyed the pace & delivery."

Deniz Koteen, Medimmune

"Great speaker with the right tempo. Open to new ideas and input. Lot of interation & interesting exercises."

Harry van Mierloo, Fox-IT

"Great course conducted by an engaging instructor. Excellent opportunity to learn and re-imagine existing knowledge."

Paul Medland, Green 4 Solutions

"Page is a really good and funny speaker. The course gives you really tips you can use immediately. There is a lot of content but it's worth following the course."

Lien Desomber, digicreate.be, Oostkamp Belgium

"I am not a designer but this course gave great insights! Very helpful! for our new global intranet."

Elly Breekman, ING Bank

"Page really know what he is talking about, gives reasonable answers to any questions, shows a lot of examples and is very interested in attendees work. Great class!"

Janina, Etas GMBH Germany

"Awesome. Answered so many questions we have been struggling with. Definitely feel have gained tools I can take back with me. Thank you so much!"

Christina Kerr, DNV GL

"Garrett did an excellent job engaging the audience and encouraging discussion. This course does an amazing job laying a foundation for application design."

Patrick Miller, Altair, Troy MI

"I really enjoyed Garrett. He's very funny, warm, engaging and made the whole process comfortable and feasible. Also his content delivery was fantastic. I was scrambling to scribble down all those nuggets of gold. There were rich contextual examples for every slide."

Angela Stucky, Chicago, Il

"This course is the link between theory and practice; This is where you learn to apply what you've learned in the theory-based courses to app design. I am grateful to have taken this course, as well as "The Human Mind and Usability" with Raluca Budiu. Raluca is extremely knowledgeable, works hard to ensure everyone has a solid understanding of the course material and to reinforce your learning in fun and clever ways."

Christopher Butler, Accenture

"To be honest this was one of the best virtual classes I took, in terms of content, quality, professionalism & support. I was recommended to take the course & i'll be recommending it for others for sure."

Khalid AlMushaddak, AEC - Advanced Electronics Company, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

"This course shows solutions and multiple ways to reach them."

Martin Kaethner, PCS Systemtechnik GmbH, Munich, Germany

"Excellent! Being in government, I was especially interested in the speaker's previous work with TurboTax forms and data collection tricky. Thanks!"

Hayley Moore

"Page was outstanding! Truly impressed with the course and the information covered. It was just the right amount of information per topic so we could cover a lot. The break out groups were a great way to practice what we learned (or already know). The documentation is really helpful and the everything overall was super organized. I am excited to take another course!"

Lauren Sherby, Spire Digital, Denver, CO, USA

"I loved the course! Large data visualization is very difficult, not as exciting as designing a mobile app. In fact, there were only small attendees. That's why I believe that taking this course is so valuable and sets me apart in a large group of UX designers because less UX designers have the knowledge of Application Design for Web and Desktop. Page is a great instructor that who taught very difficult things in easy-to-understand language. My understanding level of the course was the highest among the other courses I took because he explained the difficult large amount of content very clearly without any big words (I speak English as my second language). Thank you, Page! I'd LOVE to take his course again for sure!"

Instructors

Garrett Goldfield

Garrett Goldfield is a User Experience Specialist at Nielsen Norman Group with 20 years of practical experience. At Nielsen Norman Group, Goldfield has consulted for clients in a broad range of industries, including e-commerce, automotive, health care, financial, media, telecommunications, education, art and non-profits, as well as highly specialized B2B sites.

Page Laubheimer

Page Laubheimer is a Senior User Experience Specialist with Nielsen Norman Group. He helps organizations focus on delivering outstanding user experience in order to achieve their strategic goals. He combines his expertise in website usability with experience managing a team of designers and developers to successfully implement UX best practices across a range of platforms.

Raluca Budiu

Raluca Budiu is Director of Research at Nielsen Norman Group, where she consults for clients from a variety of industries and presents tutorials on mobile usability, designing interfaces for multiple devices, quantitative usability methods, cognitive psychology for designers, and principles of human-computer interaction. She also serves as editor for the articles published on NNgroup.com. Raluca coauthored the NN/g reports on tablet usability, mobile usability, iPad usability, and the usability of children's websites, as well as the book Mobile Usability. She holds a Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University.