User Experience Foundation – A Beginner Level UI/UX Boot Camp

29 June, 2021

    A National Level Boot camp on “User Experience Foundation – UI/UX” was organized by IEEE VGEC Student Branch on 13th, 19th, 20th, 26th & 27th June 2021 (5 days), from 2 to 5 pm on Google Meet. The boot camp was coordinated by VGEC students Hetanshi Acharya and Dharmit Shah. The webinar was conducted by the presenters Mr. Yas Patel and Mr. Kaval Patel (VGEC Students). The webinar was attended by over 50 students from various semesters. The prime objective of the webinar was to develop the skills of participants and make them ready to become entry-level UI/UX designers. The event also focused on concretizing the foundation of their design thinking.

    On 13th June 2021, the presenters started with the basics of user experience design and emphasized applications and scope of UX and also discussed on the product development life cycle. On 19th June 2021, the presenters delivered information on the design thinking process and emphasized UX research and affinity diagram. The participants learned the basics of Adobe Xd. On 20th June 2021, the participants deeply explored the concepts of wire-framing, site mapping and information architecture and also gained knowledge about another important tool Figma. On 26th June 2021, the participants had a great interactive session, students also showed very good responses by sharing the assignments given to them. Also, new topics like the difference between product design and UX design, accessibility, responsive design etc. were taught and students also got aware of how to build their portfolio and its different methods.

    On 27th June 2021, the students got answers to their burning questions like “how you can earn your bread butter from UX designing skills only”, “which are the jobs titles that are commended to a UX designer”, “which are the books and courses they should opt for”. All these FAQs were discussed in detail. The participants learned to develop logic which in the long run would help them to create beautiful designs & by learning these basic designing concepts, participants also honed their understanding about developing user convenient tools.

 

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