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Stanford Web Services provides User Experience (UX) Design consulting services to campus units across the university on usability, user experience, and visual design of their website or application. Here are some resources, tools, and templates that you can use to:
- Define the top goals and strategy for your web project
- Identify and evaluate your users needs on your website, application, or online service
- Test critical tasks on your site to ensure they are easy to accomplish
- Design new menu structures
Develop an Informed Strategy
Getting Started: Developing an Informed Website Strategy [template]
Additional Resources:
- The Importance of an Informed Website Strategy: Cardinal Service Part One
- How to Put User Needs at the Forefront of Your Web Design: Cardinal Service Part Two
Identify User Goals and Tasks
Getting Started: Defining User Tasks [template]
Defining Page Goals and Content Strategy [template]
Additional Resources:
Define Requirements for Web Application
Project Specification and Kickoff Doc [template]
Additional Resources:
- Design Thinking Workshop (template): I Like, I Wish, What If
- Lean UX Workshop Workshop Script
- Interaction Design Worksheet (template)
Design Navigation and Menu Structure
Tips/Process for Navigation Design [template]
Additional Resources:
- 5 Steps for Designing a Modern Navigation
- When and How to use Drop-Down Menus
- What we have designed and engineered: the story of our navigation mode
More Resources on UX Design Process
- Tactile Design Kit
- Conscious User Experience Design
- Thoughts on Design and Agile
- Icebreaker: turn circles into recognizable objects in a very short period of time to push people to test their creativity. Good for: creativity, ideation, fluency (the speed and quantity of ideas) and flexibility (ideas that are truly different and distinct).
- Retrospective or Feedback: I Like, I wish, What if Feedback (TEMPLATE)
- Discovery and High-level analysis in the SWS Development Process: Understand how the UX Design Process fits into the overall SWS Development process.