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Practical UX Design

By : Scott Faranello
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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

Closing thoughts


The Internet is filled with good IA and bad. Knowing how to identify which is which and transferring that knowledge to your own design and IA work is what will separate good IA from bad. IA is not something to dabble in or to put off until a later time. It requires serious attention and thought. Before considering a design solution, identify what you want to convey before you consider how you are going to do it. Piles of data and content are useless unless your users can understand and interact with it, and design is useless unless it has a strong IA driven by a well thought out sitemap and a holistic understanding of the larger whole of the design.

If you find yourself designing the look and feel before IA, then it is time to change course. Begin with IA, create a sitemap, and make sure to think about each of the IA strategies presented in this chapter and then test them with real users. Designing good IA can be a challenge, but before long, you will begin to see improvements...