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Hello!
I have an opportunity to take a highly regarded UX design course at an extremely cheap price (due to a government initiative).
I've been learning WordPress development and am quite new at it. However, the opportunity to take this course is extremely rare. A lot of people applied and I actually got chosen!
I don't mind splitting my time between getting this course done AND learning WordPress. But my question is: is it counterintuitive? I know there's lots of plugins and so on that would provide a great user experience.
Or else is it worth learning so that I provide more value to my clients?
Thanks!
It’s always worth learning UX design.
Especially to understand how far plugins can be from normal UX.
Yes
Go for it
Before you take the course and pay the ‚cheap‘ price make sure it‘s no pyramid scheme scam.
This will help you a lot + if you using UX Builder (Flatsometheme.net) you will run away from your competitors.
Yes.
Anyone can slap a website together but it can have a terrible user experience. To stay competitive, you have to go above and beyond to hit many elements, one being UX. Aesthetics is key to a user. Knowing about their needs is key too. User testings validate your website usability
Yes, and when you plan to work with developers. Please for the love of God learn to define structures and global elements…
Go. Learn. Grow! Try not to rely on plugins.
Yes. Making the site is the easy part. Planning it to accomplish goals and help the user get to where you want is the very hard and time consuming part.
Edit: architect > construction worker
Always be learning. UX and UI are essential to becoming a well-rounded dev. You don’t have to be an expert. Being able to communicate with the experts on a project is invaluable and appreciated vs being a dev who only understands dev speak.
Figma is easy enough, especially with some $10 AI plugins, that there is no reason to not start using it at least once in a while. It’s also a big money maker on freelance projects for those looking for [Figma to WP sites](https://www.philiparudy.com/figma-to-wordpress.html).
Sr UX Researcher/UX Designer here.
Yes and depending on how far you push the fundamentals into your output you will be in a category of your own.
Just the other day someone recommended a builder here. When I went to check it out and the themes they created, something told me to run the WebAim WAVE accessibility plugin on it.
97 contrast errors, and that was just contrast.
I have seen WordPress DEVs conflate UI patterns, not follow navigation best practices, and a lot of work out there, especially in theme development like that one place with forest in its name shows they are not applying design thinking and other UX processes that would make their work make more sense to the end user.
Another topic, somewhat related, is there are several categories of plugins and themes no DEV is building.
I recently built one with Claude that could completely revolutionize how creatives show their work. Why did I build it before a WordPress DEV did? Because I’m a UX Designer first, focused on solving human problems first, and lastly thinking about what it looks like in a build.
If I could do my career over, I would have moved from Flash Development to WordPress moonlighted as a freelance DEV, while starting and expanding my career in UX.
This is pretty much a golden opportunity you have in front of you, and at a discount. It could later be one of the best investments you’ve made in your career/life.
Yes.
Can o do it too? From Brazil?
If you have the chance, and it’s cheap, then why not? At least learn some fundamentals, so you know the generally good practices.
Abso-fucking-lutely. I know I’m old, but when I started in this industry a “front end dev” designed the UI, did the css, the frontend related PHP, the JS, etc. Design was implied in “front end” – how times have changed. Anyway, knowing good design principles should be a core skill of any front end heavy developer, so yeah…take it.
I am a lead UX designer who happens to know development . I can only say that learning anything we can helps in someway or other in our work. I want UX ui graphic, film, color grading, photography, front end, server management, bit of back end, performance optimization and a lot of unrelated stuff too, such as languages and cultural education.
Today I run a web design and dev agency. I also work for a large scale agency. My own business brings way more revenue than a job I’ve ever done. But all that I learn keeps coming into use during my business or client communication or sometimes only for selling an idea. Knowledge is always useful.
But I never used algebra so far they taught me at school.
Shouldn’t even be a question, take advantage of the opportunity
Yes!
My skills are web design, development, UX, SEO and SEM specialist, system admins, dev ops, etc that have been developed since 1997ish.
The trick is with UX beyond typography, color scheme … Is how to get the visitor with as little clicks as possible to where they want to go on the site.
As a a digital marketer the trick is converting visitors into clients.
Learning UX is part of the puzzle in th sales funnel.
Keep learning…