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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

Pattern libraries versus style guides


What's the difference between pattern libraries and styles guides and when should you use each? The answer depends on what stage of design you are in. For example, if you are wireframing (see Chapter 7, Tools, for more on wireframing), you will want to use patterns. Patterns are proactive design elements that help define and visualize interactions and information architecture.

Once you have completed the design phase, you are ready to create the style guide, a documentation of all your design decisions. The style guide will be used by the visual design and development teams to ensure that what they deliver is consistent with what you envisioned.

Both the pattern library and the style guide are living documents. As design changes occur, both should be updated accordingly.

Note

For additional resources on pattern libraries and style guides, see Chapter 8, Final Thoughts and Additional Resources.