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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

Focused IA


Helping users to focus is just as important as helping them when they can't. As you plan for IA, consider the kinds of distractions that could occur and how to avoid them. For example, are you providing intuitive navigation? Are there mental models to consider that will keep your customers/users on track and focused? What do you want users to learn and/or discover along the way? Can objectives be completed easily, or will confusion and panic lead to calls to customer support or giving up in frustration? What happens when users veer off course? Can they easily find their way back? What if users are in a hurry and don't have time for diversions? Have you provided a clear path? Are you even aware if these issues exist? Have you planned and budgeted for usability studies to observe how users behave and respond to your design? Have you interviewed users to understand what they might need from your design? If you cannot answer these questions affirmatively and in detail or you are wondering...