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Practical UX Design

By : Scott Faranello
Book Image

Practical UX Design

By: Scott Faranello

Overview of this book

Written in an easy-to-read style, this book provides real-world examples, a historical perspective, and a holistic approach to design that will ground you in the fundamental essentials of interactive design, allow you to make more informed design decisions, and increase your understanding of UX in order to reach the highest levels of UX maturity. As you will see, UX is more than just delighting customers and users. It is also about thinking like a UX practitioner, making time for creativity, recognizing good design when you see it, understanding Information Architecture as more than just organizing and labeling websites, using design patterns to influence user behavior and decision making, approaching UX from a business perspective, transforming your client’s and company’s fundamental understanding of UX and its true value, and so much more. This book is an invaluable resource of knowledge, perspective, and inspiration for those seeking to become better UX designers, increase their confidence, become more mature design leaders, and deliver solutions that provide measurable value to stakeholders, customers, and users regardless of project type, size, and delivery method.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Practical UX Design
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Gauging your IA success


Salvador Dalí once said, "Have no fear of perfection—you'll never reach it."

As defeating as this quote may sound, your objective as a UX practitioner is not to reach perfection, but to create design that is meaningful, understandable, useful, and engaging. To gauge your success in these areas, ask yourself these important questions:

  • Is the information presented coordinated in such a way that it is quickly and easily understandable?

  • It content presented and written at a level that your specific readers can understand?

  • How great is the effort for users to cooperate with your design? Will they want to willingly or begrudgingly? Have you tested this with real users to know for sure?

  • Is the right amount of information being presented? Too much information? Too little? Have you spent enough time editing the content and sharing it with potential users to make sure it is easily readable and understandable?

  • Can content be edited to avoid numerous pages when a summary might be sufficient...