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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

Seamless IA


As technology improves and becomes more complex, good IA becomes more complex as well. Not only do we need to provide a great experience, we also need to be aware that these experiences don't always end when the user leaves the store or when they turn off their computers. In a constantly connected world, information is always moving and transcending from one medium to the next. As a result, IA and design is no longer about a single, isolated experience or a single journey. It is about moving seamlessly from one experience to the next. To explain this more clearly, let's look at one of the best examples of seamless IA.

It's no secret that Apple leads the way in innovation, usability, and IA—not to mention the excitement their products generate with customers. Apple's success is not an accident. For years, they have been listening to their customers and it shows. For example, consider Apple's website. It's sleek and super simple to navigate. It's also very much in keeping with their...