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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

Chapter 6. An Essential Strategy for UX Maturity

 

"Not having a measurement strategy is what keeps UX as a "nice to have" as opposed to being an influential driving force within an organization."

 
 --http://uxrefresh.prosite.com/353189/www.markdisciullo.com

In the previous chapters, we focused on design fundamentals and how understanding and identifying them leads to better design decisions and ultimately better design solutions. We have also been looking at the importance of engaging our customers/users and dispelling the "faster horses" myth in the process. It should be obvious by now that close customer/user engagement is key to validating your design assumptions and producing better UX design, greater value and longer lasting solutions as a result.

While this is all extremely important, creating and delivering better UX solutions using foundational design techniques is only half of the story. The second half is about delivering results that your stakeholders, the ones who ultimately fund...