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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

Designing for change


Of all the four Cs, perhaps the most important one is change. When we think about change, a question often arises about how it will affect our design. Will it require a complete rethinking, like when cameras went from film to digital? Will it mean making room in our current design for something new, like adding new products or new categories to an existing online store? What effect will change have on your taxonomy and your design? All these considerations are important to ensure that your well-designed IA remains that way long after you have created it.

Supermarkets are great at change. New products are added, while others are removed, and never are there disruptions to the overall experience or the layout of the store. Categories and aisles have been so well-placed and coordinated that there is really no need for change, despite products coming and going on a regular basis. Now, that's good IA.

We see this online as well with sites such as Amazon, Facebook, Pinterest...