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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

The UX maturity map


Once you put this approach into place and begin seeing stakeholder engagement rapidly improve, you will want to monitor your progress along the way to know where you are and where you want to be. The following UX maturity diagram will help guide you through this:

Let's review each maturity level:

Level 1 – Awareness

At this stage, UX regularly seeks opportunities to pilot small, measurable user-facing projects to demonstrate business-focused improvements. Projects at this maturity level are acquired or created through independent research or as a result of stakeholders/clients requesting UX assistance and expertise.

Level 2 – Repeatable

At this stage, UX has completed a number of successful, business-oriented, metric-driven projects and has developed a repeatable process to deliver customer-/user-facing business improvements to stakeholders/clients consistently across the company.

Level 3 – Strategic

At this stage, UX is ready to take on large customer-/user-facing projects...