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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

The business of UX


The next layer and the next important aspect of UX maturity is that of the business layer or business approach to UX. Remember, no matter what project you are working on, there will always be a stakeholder behind it with business needs, goals and objectives pertaining to it. This will be the case whether you work as an independent contractor, for a Fortune 500 company, or anywhere in between. At the end of the day, every project and idea has business needs, and as UX practitioners, it is our number one goal to know what those are and to be able to prove that we were successful. It is such an important priority that if I were using the Garrett model as an example, this layer would be the very first step in the process.

The reason this layer is so important is because it provides UX with the number one element needed to reach the highest level of UX maturity: business knowledge.

The first step is to find a project or problem to focus on. The key word here is find. Remember...