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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

A closing thought


There is a classic stage play and film of the same name called Glengarry Glen Ross in which the phrase Always Be Closing (ABC) was popularized and came to define the art of selling and salesmanship. Well, I will create a new phrase for UX right now: Always Be Learning (ABL).

Like any profession worth pursuing, there should always be something more to learn and something new to discover on a regular basis. UX provides a wellspring of learning, where almost daily new information comes along to challenge what we thought we knew and to provide us with a glimpse into what may be around the corner. With UX, there is no shortage of new ideas and when you discover them, it's in your best interest to understand and pursue them to the fullest extent. Some may be trends, while others may be fads. Nevertheles, like tools, it is always good to know about them and how to use them, because one day they may come in handy.

For example, here are some trends that keep popping up:

  • Invisible design...