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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

Maps


 

"Everything is a map of something"

 
 --Richard Saul Wurman

As you read the next section, think about where you are right now, physically. Did you use a map to get there? Did you have to navigate any obstacles? Were there distractions? Did you make any new discoveries? Did you meet your objectives? Were your tasks easy to complete?

Everyday we are on a journey that requires thought, guidance, and guarantees that we will arrive successfully. It may not even be a physical journey. Writing this book was a journey, for example, with a very clear destination: You reading it! Most of our daily activities, such as shopping, commuting to work, and using our phones, are all fairly easy to accomplish now, but think back to something like learning to drive, starting a new job, learning an instrument, and so on. What you might now take for granted was new at one time and required guidance from an instructor, a colleague, a book, and a lot of practice. Maybe you took to these new tasks quickly, while...