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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

Summary


This chapter introduced the UX mindset, one of the most important concepts you will learn as a UX designer and practitioner and one we will refer back to again and again. We also talked about the myth that listening to our customers/users derails good design and dispelled it using many examples. UX is more than a set of tools, skills, tips and tricks. If we want to be better UX designers and more practical in our approach we first have to acquire the mindset to make it so. UX is a way of viewing the world around you and using it to solve even the most complex and challenging problems, something we will see in later chapters.

Now, let's move on to Chapter 2, Creative UX, where we will explore how the UX mindset goes about creating good design.