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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

A different kind of UX approach


There is a well-known saying that states, Insanity is doing something over and over again and expecting different results. When we look at how UX has evolved over time, this definition hits too close to home. As an example, here are some common challenges that UX professionals continue to face in today's organizations:

  • UX is not independently funded and is often part of the IT group or some other department

  • UX will often modify its methods to accommodate rather than lead

  • UX still focuses primarily on usability studies

  • UX does not own, measure, track, or keep up with data and analytics

  • UX is often more artistically focused than business focused (qualitative over quantitative)

Working as UX lead for a large organization, I was flummoxed as to how to better engage the company's stakeholders around the value of UX. The narrow understanding the company had of UX—usability studies, wireframes, reporting on heuristics, determining the overall likeability of products—was...