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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

The principles of good design


 

A poorly-designed product is not only uglier than a well-designed one but it is of less value and use. Worst of all it might be intrusive.

 
 --Dieter Rams

Remember the time when banner ads were everywhere? Remember how they used to blink and obstruct your view continue opening on screen until you had to literally close your browser to make them stop? These types of ads may no longer exist, but ads are still very much with us, replaced by clever advertising that we are often not even aware exists. Perhaps, you have seen them. Here is an example:

Did you spot the ad in the image above? It is not easy to see, especially if you are not looking for it. That's because this is a form of advertising, called "native advertising," designed to look exactly like the rest of the content on the page. Native advertising has become so prevalent that CNN created its own in-house studio exclusively...