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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)

Summary

In this chapter, we learned about the importance of different content and UI for great user experience. We also saw how these elements can create big issues in terms of communication between your website, app, product, or service and your user. I hope you learned how all these aspects and elements, such as hierarchy, typography, iconography, color, copy, and so on, are interconnected and influence each other. 

Although content strategy and text creation can be a job for a copywriter, and the choice of color scheme, typography, iconography, and so on can be a job for a UI designer, as a UXer, you should influence those decisions and make sure that all of them will allow for a great user experience.

Understanding these aspects of UX and UI in depth, it will help you to identify the UX issues that are impacted by these elements, and you will be able to make...