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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

Tools of the UX trade


Use Google to search for UX tools, and you'll find results with terms such as A/B or split testing, accessibility, wireframing, mapping, user and usability testing, prototyping, evaluation, mobile app testing, analytics, and so on. Now, use Google to search for the term "choosing the right UX tools" or "the best UX tools," and an equally large number of resources appear. With so many options and so little time to learn them all, what's a UX practitioner to do?

While I use tools that are personal favorites, there are many more that I haven't tried. Once you begin trying them, you will probably find that a lot of them do pretty much the same thing. One wireframing tool is often as good as another, save perhaps for some additional features such as ease of use, price, and so on. Tools for technology are really not much different than tools for any other field. If I am building a bookshelf, any hammer, saw, and drill would work, but there is also nothing like using better...