Object-Oriented UX helps digital product designers create naturally intuitive user experiences, even when faced with mind-boggling complexity. Through a proven, repeatable framework, teams synthesize UX research and convoluted requirements into strong, future-proof structure. Armed with OOUX, we can create elegant digital products that are easier to design and develop—and easier for users to understand. WIN. WIN. WIN.
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Say hello to our most recently Certified OOUX Strategists! Cohort 9 trained in the latest OOUX practices October-December 2023. Final testing is happening now, so look here for the graduates to appear as final exam results come in!
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Someone has to be able to see the forest for the trees, and it’s usually people that have OOUX as a skillset, the people who can see those things and go, oh, I understand how that thing relates to that other thing. They’re the ones that do well in design systems. So we need people who have that OOUX skillset.
To me, Sophia Prater’s OOUX is a perfect corollary to atomic design. Atomic design helps teams think about user interfaces in a thoughtful, considered, and structural manner, and OOUX does the same for the objects and content that flows through those user interfaces. That’s why I see atomic design and OOUX as a fantastic one-two punch: they both help teams break big, gnarly problems down into smaller pieces in order to create thoughtful systems that govern great (and complex!) user experiences.
When you work with Sophia Prater and the OOUX methodology, it’s like putting on x-ray goggles. Suddenly you can see the bones of your system: all the implicit concepts and actions and relationships become visible and explicit. Your language gets clearer, your metaphors sharper, your visualizations more intuitive. For product designers like me, that’s a superpower for crafting and refining experiences that are complex without being complicated, simple without being simplistic.
In a world where we are almost never given the time or space or resources we’d like to design things well, OOUX is an absolute gift. An approach that takes us from zero to sixty in the shortest possible time and puts us on the right road to clearly understanding what users need from this interaction, from this interface, from this experience. To my way of thinking, OOUX focuses squarely on the things that matter most to people and kicks everything else to the curb.
This rigorous course is for UX designers, developers, and digital product people who are tackling complexity, wrangling stakeholders, and trying to make systems-level change.
In this two-hour special edition of OOUX Happy Hour, Sophia Prater will go over how generative AI and OOUX can support each other. The goal = in just a couple hours, diffuse the overwhelm and show you how to seamlessly integrate AI in really exciting and effective ways.
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In this solo episode of the podcast, Sophia talks about the coming artificial intelligence revolution and how it could work with OOUX. She discusses AI world models and how OOUX provides a framework for training AIs. Plus, all the fun AI/OOUX material coming down the pipeline, including Zoe, the OOUX bot (currently in development) and a meetup on May 16 3-5PM EST, "OOUX for AI and AI for OOUX."
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listenElena Haskins is a Certified OOUX Strategist and product designer that helps design software for SaaS startups that make users feel effortlessly at home. In this episode of the podcast, Sophia and Elena discuss how dog owners can teach clients about cardinality, why OOUX helps you ask the questions no one else is asking, and how system objects can be used for team therapy.
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listenDan Mall is a creative director, designer, founder, and entrepreneur. He currently runs Design System University: curriculum & community to support how you design at scale. In this episode of the podcast, Sophia and Dan ask the question, are design systems folks and OOUX folks the same folks?
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listenElena gave her first official talk about OOUX at Thunderplains, a dev conference hosted by Techlahoma a few weeks ago. In this talk, she speaks about the benefits of OOUX to bridge the gap between design and development, and gives an intro to the ORCA process.
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watchIn this eighth installment of the ORCA Series, Sophia wraps up the Requirements round with Attribute Requirements. Tune in to hear Sophia give a primer on deeper level requirements gathering, plus what sorts of questions generally get asked during the Requirements round.
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listenIn this FREE guide, get the inside scoop on the creation story behind OOUX, learn the most critical activities in the object-oriented framework, and guide you to the best resources for learning the foundations of OOUX. You'll get the rocket fuel you need to go from 0 to 60 in just a few hours.
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get itSophia was interviewed on the UI Breakfast Podcast. How can object-oriented UX help designers solve complex product problems? You’ll learn why object-oriented thinking is well-suited for design processes, how a shared vocabulary enables collaboration, practical mapping tips, and more.
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