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Fixing Bad UX Designs

By : Lisandra Maioli
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Fixing Bad UX Designs

By: Lisandra Maioli

Overview of this book

Have your web applications been experiencing more hits and less conversions? Are bad designs consuming your time and money? This book is the answer to these problems. With intuitive case studies, you’ll learn to simplify, fix, and enhance some common, real-world application designs. You’ll look at the common issues of simplicity, navigation, appearance, maintenance, and many more. The challenge that most UX designers face is to ensure that the UX is user-friendly. In this book, we address this with individual case studies starting with some common UX applications and then move on to complex applications. Each case study will help you understand the issues faced by a bad UX and teach you to break it down and fix these problems. As we progress, you’ll learn about the information architecture, usability testing, iteration, UX refactoring, and many other related features with the help of various case studies. You’ll also learn some interesting UX design tools with the projects covered in the book. By the end of the book, you’ll be armed with the knowledge to fix bad UX designs and to ensure great customer satisfaction for your applications.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Identifying UI and content issues

If you ask developers about the importance of the visual aspects of a project in defining user experience, you might commonly hear that they are important for the satisfaction and pleasure of the users. The truth is that a bad use of UI elements and content can result in different UX issues.

First of all, it is important that we know the difference between UI and UX (you will be asked about this a lot!): While user experience design corresponds to the continuous improvement of the usability of its system, it is concerned with producing a simple and intuitive interaction between users and machines, which translates into user satisfaction when when task are performing in an uncomplicated way. The goal of user interface design is to incorporate the company's identity into the application's DNA. UI designers are responsible for how the customer...