Overview

Your product’s user interface is its most visible and interactive component. By following GUI design best practices, you can ensure that your interface looks current, stands out from the crowd and – most importantly – lets users accomplish their goals effectively and efficiently.

Our Essentials in GUI Design course offers you the essential concepts and techniques for effective Graphical User Interface design through theory and hands-on exercises. You will come away from this course with an understanding of the building blocks required to design a graphical user interface that is intuitive, easy to use and loved by its users and the marketplace.

Macadamian’s qualified instructors provide a practical overview of GUI screen design, standards and guidelines, and approaches to design and prototyping for both client software and the web. You will discover how to apply user interaction research methods and incorporate user feedback to create applications that are tailored to user needs.

This course also covers:

• The evolution of GUI design for both applications and the web
• User-Centred design ROI and best practices
• Organizing principles of information architecture and design
• Interaction design method principles and patterns
• Application of usability guidelines and heuristics

Benefits

This course prepares you to create GUIs that are intuitive and easy to use by showing you how to accomplish the following:

• Apply tested and proven principles of GUI design
• Follow a User Centered Design process
• Find and apply pertinent user interface design guidelines and standards
• Verify the usability of your application design
• Effectively integrate usability testing into your web development process

Who should attend?

• Product Managers
• Application developers
• Documentation and training specialists
• GUI designers
• Information architects
• Interface designers
• Market researchers
• Project managers
• QA personnel
• Software developers
• Visual interaction designers
• Web developers