Design Sprint | Portfolio | Personal Branding | Usability Heuristics| Dropbox Redesign

Index

• Design Sprint
• Design Sprint Goals
• Benefits of Design Sprint
• Portfolio
• Tips for a good portfolio
• Personal Brand
• Figuring out your personal brand
• Usability Heuristics
• Dropbox Redesign

What is Design Sprint?

A process that designers use to achieve their goal within a week, typically spread over 5 full 8 hours days.

Design Sprint Goal

Solve a critical design challenge through designing, prototyping, and testing ideas with users

Benefits of Design Sprints

• Save time
• Create a path to bring a product to market
• Prioritize the user
• Test product before launch

Read more here — https://designsprintkit.withgoogle.com/

Portfolio

A collection of work you’ve created that shows your skills in a certain area

Tips for a good portfolio

• Establish your personal brand
• Tell a story
• Be concise
• Keep your navigation simple and intuitive
• Go beyond the template
• Include a diversity of projects
• Feature case studies
• Website is responsive
• Test your website

Personal Brand

The way in which your personality, unique skills, and values as a designer intersect with your public persona.

Figuring out your personal brand

• What am I naturally good at?
• What have I learned to do well?
• What do I enjoy?
• What do I value?
• How do other people describe me and my talents?
• What do I want people to recognize me for?

10 Usability Heuristics for User Interface Design

• Visibility of system status
• Match between system and the real world
• User control and freedom
• Consistency and standards
• Error prevention
• Recognition rather than recall
• Flexibility and efficiency of use
• Esthetic and minimalist design
• Help users recognize, diagnose, and recover from errors
• Help and documentation

Read more here — https://www.nngroup.com/articles/ten-usability-heuristics/

Dropbox redesign: 100DaysOfUX Challenge

• What are some noticeable changes that you see throughout the years?
• Why do you think some of these changes were made?
• How would you try to redesign the website for 2022? What parts of it would you change?
• [OPTIONAL]: If you’ve already used Figma, you could also try to redesign the current website.

Changes that we can see throughout the years

• 2007 — No Images, simple website
• 2008 — Added some interactive buttons
• 2010 — Added Images, less cluster, more spacing
• 2012 — More graphics, visuals, Illustrations
• 2017 — Follow new trends, Big texts, Proper Hierarchy
• 2019 — Looks more pleasing, much content

Checkout here — http://uxtimeline.com/dropbox.html

Some of these changes were made because

• New trends every year
• User Experience
• UX/UI Laws followed

Some Usability Heuristics that has been followed progressively throughout the years

• Aesthetic and Minimalist Design
• Help and Documentation
• Recognition Rather Than Recall
• Consistency and Standards

Design Change

• Removed Header Line
• More Space

Dribble Link

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