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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

Chapter 8. Final Thoughts and Additional Resources

 

"Never put passion before principle. Even if win, you lose."

 
 --Kesuke Miyagi

When I was originally asked to write a book about UX, it was intended as a practical guide to improve one's web design work. As I started writing and outlining the book, I quickly realized that it was impossible to talk about designing better without explaining why it mattered. As a skill and field, UX is more than tips and tricks. It is a lifelong pursuit of understanding what motivates different people and how to deliver that through design. UX is an art form that, like all other art forms, improves with some historical perspective and a deeper understanding of its connections to the larger world. Of course, it's possible to become a UX designer without making these connections, but that's a decision and a choice. For some, UX is a job. For others, it's a passionate pursuit of knowledge and history that brings us closer to embodying the work we deliver.

I hope...