How can I start with User Experience design?

UX is more than A/B testing. UX is about listen to users and design accordingly. It is not only about webdesign. UX involves other sectors such as (and not only) ubiquitous systems. Wikipedia suggests a good definition: User experience (UX or UE) is the way a person feels about using a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product_(business), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System or service. User experience highlights the experiential, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affective, meaningful and valuable aspects of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human-computer_interaction and product ownership, but it also includes a person’s perceptions of the practical aspects such as utility, ease of use and efficiency of the system. User experience is subjective in nature, because it is about an individual’s feelings and thoughts about the system. User experience is dynamic, because it changes over time as the circumstances change. The appearance of interfaces is the last problem of a UX (while it could be the first for a Graphic Designer). UX is a matter of information organisation, accessibility, usability, enjoyability and so on. For a overview I suggest you to start form the HCI course by Alan Dix. It started two weeks ago and you are in time to subscribe and follow the lessons: http://hcicourse.com/

It's hard with all the noise of the Internet to really know what matters. Here is my list: 1. http://www.alistapart.com/articles/the-ux-of-learning/ (Probably the best blog post to date) 2. Do lots of A/B testings, all the time. (learn how to adapt, I wrote a blog post about it here: http://iwilldesignyou.com/blog/?p=11) 3. Just look at what others do and be inspired. I found http://duolingo.com to be particularly awesome!

The key thing is to understand the framework for UX design. It it made up of strategic phases as well as a wide variety of tactics that you can employ during those phases. I wrote a more in depth article over at Shopify:https://www.shopify.com/partners/blog/a-quick-guide-to-getting-started-with-user-experience-design (includes strategy, tactics, and resources for more study)Another thing that is important to note, is that User Experience is very much about learning how to learn. It’s about collecting data and knowing how to filter and make sense of that data and turn that into design.