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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, you saw a few examples on how to create documentation to reach a great communication with other teams that are involved in the project and will be responsible for the implementation. To make communication effective, it is important to create clear and digestible documentation. It is important to be able to communicate well with the teams responsible for the UI design and develop/implement the UX fixes.

Besides finding time to present the UX fixes to the team, it is important to be available in case they have any questions during the implementation and also to avoid something being misinterpreted and implemented in a wrong way. It might be possible that a few changes might be needed or solutions may need adapting and the teams will have ideas to discuss. Just make sure that you are aware if everything is fine and your findings are being followed. With the solutions developed you will want to test and validate the solutions implemented.

In Chapter 11Measuring UX Solutions...