Objective: Complete a comprehensive UI/UX redesign project from analysis to final presentation
What You'll Learn:
- Critical analysis of existing digital interfaces
- Evidence-based design improvement planning
- User flow optimization and wireframing
- High-fidelity prototype development
- Professional presentation skills
What You'll Create: A complete redesign case study with analysis, wireframes, prototype, and presentation
Complete UI/UX Redesign Journey:
- Part One: Analysis & Improvement Planning (Lesson 20)
- Part 2: User Flow & Wireframing (Lesson 21)
- Part 3: Development (Lesson 22)
- Part 4: Final Presentation (Lesson 23)
- Analyze existing digital interfaces critically
- Identify strengths and weaknesses of current designs
- Compare against competitors
- Develop evidence-based improvement recommendations
- Prepare foundation for wireframing
Analysis & Improvement Planning Worksheet
Choose a Website or App:
- Select something you're familiar with
- Ensure it has enough complexity for analysis
- Consider one with obvious improvement opportunities
- Ideally in a category with clear competitors
Examples:
- E-commerce sites
- Educational platforms
- Social media apps
- Entertainment services
- Productivity tools
Document Basic Information:
- Name and URL/download location
- Industry category
- When was it last updated?
Define Purpose:
- What is its primary function?
- What secondary features does it offer?
- Who is the target audience?
- How does it generate value?
Visual Design Elements:
Color Analysis:
- Identify primary, secondary, and accent colors
- Note hex codes if possible
- Consider color psychology and brand alignment
Typography:
- Document heading and body text fonts
- Assess readability across devices
- Consider hierarchy and contrast
Layout Structure:
- Grid system or organizing principles
- Use of white space
- Content prioritization
- Responsive behavior
Imagery & Graphics:
- Style consistency
- Image quality
- Purpose (decorative vs. informational)
- Relevance to content
Selecting Competitors:
- Choose 2-3 direct competitors
- Document their approaches to similar problems
Comparative Assessment:
- What do competitors do better?
- Where does your selected app excel?
- Identify industry best practices
- Note innovative solutions
Visual Improvement Opportunities:
- Color palette refinements
- Typography enhancements
- Layout restructuring
Functional Improvements:
- Navigation simplification
- User flow optimization
- Feature additions or modifications
Content Improvements:
- Information architecture
- Messaging clarity
- Call-to-action effectiveness
- Transform analysis insights into practical design solutions
- Develop wireframes that address identified usability issues
- Apply information hierarchy and layout best practices
- Prepare the foundation for high-fidelity design development
- Ensures logical progression before visual design
- Identifies unnecessary steps or complications
- Focuses on user goals rather than visual elements
- Provides structure for wireframing
Step One: Select Key Tasks
- Choose 2-3 critical user journeys
- Focus on problematic flows identified in analysis
- Include primary conversion paths
Step 2: Map Current Flow
- Document existing steps for comparison
- Note pain points and unnecessary complexity
Step 3: Design Improved Flow
- Reduce steps where possible
- Eliminate decision points that cause confusion
- Ensure clear progression toward goals
What are Wireframes?
- Low-fidelity representations of interface layout
- Focus on structure, not visual design
- Show placement of elements and content hierarchy
- Communication tool for design decisions
Wireframe Fidelity Levels:
- Low: Simple boxes and placeholders
- Medium: More defined elements and some annotations
- High: Detailed layouts with specific content elements
Keep It Simple:
- Use grayscale (no color)
- Limit detail to what's necessary
- Use standard patterns when possible
Focus on Structure:
- Information hierarchy
- Navigation systems
- Content organization
- Page layouts

User Flow & Wireframing Worksheet
Assignment: Draw your new improved website/app wireframe and submit the images or link in the worksheet.
Based on your analysis and improvement recommendations, develop a high-fidelity prototype in Figma that addresses the weaknesses you identified.
- Create all necessary screens for your user journey
- Ensure logical navigation between screens
- Include error states and edge cases
- Apply your proposed color palette
- Implement your typography choices
- Use consistent layout improvements
- Create reusable components
- Design both mobile and desktop versions of key screens
- Ensure consistent experience across devices
- Test breakpoints and transitions
- Include a simple style guide frame
- Show your design system elements
- Document colors, typography, and components
- Ensure consistency across all screens
Share your Figma prototype link before the next class. Be prepared to present your redesign, explaining how your solutions address the problems identified in your analysis.
Remember: Focus on meaningful improvements rather than redesigning for the sake of change.
Create a presentation for your UI/UX redesign project that includes:
- Name and screenshot of your chosen app/website
- 3-5 key strengths and weaknesses you identified
- Summary of your proposed changes/improvements
- Before/after comparison of key screens
- Brief explanation of your design decisions
- Suggested to show your wireframe
- Share your Figma prototype
- Show how your design addresses the issues you identified
- Walk through the improved user flow
Your presentation should be concise (5-10 minutes) and focus on clearly communicating your analysis and redesign solution.
- Figma for wireframing and high-fidelity prototyping
- Presentation software (PowerPoint, Google Slides, etc.) for final presentation
- Note-taking tools for analysis and research
- Lesson 20: Complete analysis and improvement planning
- Lesson 21: Develop user flows and wireframes
- Lesson 22: Create high-fidelity Figma prototype
- Lesson 23: Present your complete redesign project
Submit Your Work Here: Submission Form