Description
Brush up your front-end development skills with real-world examples
The pressure to make every user experience unique and engaging is only going to rise as UX innovation raises the bar. Stay updated on the latest design tips and techniques and apply them to your own work straight away with this practical Learning Path.
About the Author
Joshua Miller
Joshua Miller is a freelance web designer, college professor, and interactive artist living in eastern Pennsylvania. He has taught courses in animation, web/graphic design, video game design, and programming at a variety of schools, including Lehigh University, Northampton Community College, Drexel University, Lafayette College, Montgomery County Community College, and Lehigh Valley College. He currently holds a tenure-track position at Kutztown University, where he teaches web design, graphic design, and interactivity. He also teaches part time at Lehigh University, and runs a successful freelance design business in his downtime. His true interests lie in the intersection between design and programming, specifically with the creation of digital interactive work.
Ben Fhala
Ben Fhala discovered his passion for data visualization seven years ago while he was working at Parsons in New York, in their data visualization department, PIIM. He is the owner of the online video training school, 02geek.com, and an Adobe ACP. He enjoys spending most of his time learning and teaching and has a love for visual programming and visualization in general. Ben has had the honor of developing applications for members of the US Congress, Prime Ministers, and Presidents around the world. He has built many interactive experiences for companies such as Target, AT&T, Crayola, Marriott, Neutrogena, and Nokia. He has technically directed many award-winning projects and has been part of teams that have won three Agency of the Year awards.
Chris R. Becker
Chris R. Becker is an Imaginative and creative Sr. UX designer/IxD/design thinker and educator, a creative thinker with the ability to design across media platforms from the web to iOS and Android as well as SaaS and service design. He is a versatile designer and systems thinker with problem solving skills for User Experience Design, organized and passionate with a passion for following design problems from concept to finished product. He is well versed in Agile product development methodologies but flexible with the waterfall techniques as well. He applies LEAN UX methods to rapid prototyping, design research, and user testing to take ideas from the drawing board to the real world.
He leads Design thinking workshops and UX deliverables, all the while using communication skills both in the class room and for client presentations. Participates in making through Fine Art & Graphic Design background, which leads to a variety of creative thinking, design thinking, human center design research, user testing, and problem-solving skills. His studies have included courses in rapid prototyping, usability/heuristics, human centered design research, design thinking, painting, sculpture, drawing, print making, archetypes, graphic design, typography, systems theory, media theory, programming, drawing, motion, and art history.
Specialties: Design thinking, user experience design, information architecture, branding, identity design, conceptual modeling, rapid prototyping, user interface, brainstorming, product design, advertising, retail design, interactive art director, wireframes, application GUI design, multimedia presentations, production artist, web master, social media, UX strategy development.
Brock Nunn
Brock Nunn is a frontend web developer from Tulsa, Oklahoma. Brock works full time as a graphic designer at Rovi Corporation. Over the past six years, Brock has taken part in web projects big and small. Self taught, Brock has a passion for teaching others with a simple and personal approach. Brock married his wife in June of 2009. When he is not neck deep in code, Brock enjoys making great food for his family, including his puppy Sugar.
Basic knowledge
A core understanding of HTML and CSS syntax
