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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

More examples of good IA


We'll close this chapter with some additional examples of IA and see how you can put to use what you've learned in this chapter. However, before we do, I want to leave you with a final thought as you begin incorporating good IA into your design work:

 

There are two kinds of people: how people and what people. There are those who think about how they are going to accomplish something, and there are those who stop to think about what it is they want to accomplish in the first place…What and how are important in doing almost anything. I try to think of what is to be done rather than how to do it. It's important to consciously state: "No, that's a how, not a what; think of what it is and not how you're going to do it."

 
 --Richard Saul Wurman, Hats, Design Quarterly 145

Creating good IA and good UX design requires knowing what you want to convey and what you want your customers/users to accomplish. This should be done before you start to consider how you are going to do...