 | Summaries and Customer Reviews are supplied by Amazon.com | “If you are a young designer entering or contemplating entering the UX field this is a canonical book. If you are an organization that really needs to start grokking UX this book is also for you. " -- Chris Bernard, User Experience Evangelist, Microsoft
User experience design is the discipline of creating a useful and usable Web site or application—one that’s easily navigated and meets the needs of both the site owner and its users. But there’s a lot more to successful UX design than knowing the latest Web technologies or design trends: It takes diplomacy, project management skills, and business savvy. That’s where this book comes in. Authors Russ Unger and Carolyn Chandler show you how to integrate UX principles into your project from start to finish.
• Understand the various roles in UX design, identify stakeholders, and enlist their support
• Obtain consensus from your team on project objectives
• Define the scope of your project and avoid mission creep
• Conduct user research and document your findings
• Understand and communicate user behavior with personas
• Design and prototype your application or site
• Make your product findable with search engine optimization
• Plan for development, product rollout, and ongoing quality assurance |
Average Customer Rating:  Fantastic book, great reference This book is phenomenal. Having worked in Human Factors designing User Interfaces for quite a few years, seldom have I seen a broad overview that gets it. You won't find exacting details or templates of how to do each step of the UX task, but you will get a complete sense of what you should be doing at each step you find yourself. There is enough information in this book to really get you started. Also if you already knee deep in a project, you can jump to that point.
I read the book cover to cover and put over 20 tabs on the book for the references they have provided on the web. I checked quite a few and they are a gold mine of info.
I like this book because of its broader appeal. If you sit down and read a text that goes into excruciating detail before you are ready to use that information, reading becomes laborious and you don't retain it. Or you bail on the book and never get the overall picture.
This book is a nice balance of the full picture and the ability to get the detail.
Mind you, when I say it does not go into detail that might be a bit misleading. For instance, when in the section about Search engine Optimization, it helped explain this concept in enough detail that I had a clue what the issues were when dealing with an advertizing firm. Sure enough there were links listed here to provide even more detail. The User research and persona usage was very up-to-date regarding how these would be used and why you might use varying degrees of details. In the section about Wireframes and Annotations, there were good examples and advice as well as links to get more. The User testing section had interesting information that was very current as well. I could go on and on, but the book speaks for itself. You can view the Table of Contents online.
Another thing and it is not a small one, the book is well designed for reading. The font is pleasant and the layout is efficient and provides cues for both "Surfing" and "Deep Dives" of information. In fact they provide sections called Surfing, Snorkeling and Deep Diving, which is very helpful. Nice when a book practice what it preaches and makes itself as usable as the products it's meant to help design.
This book is going on my desk for reference and has been recommended to colleagues.
Decent overview, better for beginners This is a decent overview for junior UX designers. It provides a good high-level review of the basic parts of the UX tool kit and how they fit into the project process. It is not a compelling book for the seasoned designer. A complete guide for a new comer I am a student and have found this book extremely inspiring and rich in content, examples and resources. I highly recommend it to those seeking inspiration, information and further resources to explore. Great book for new UX professionals or organizations new to UX If you are a young designer entering or contemplating entering the UX field this is a canonical book. If you are an organization that really needs to start grokking UX this book is also for you.
It's a crisp overview of all the foundational activities that you'll encounter as a UX professional.
If you've been practicing and in the UX field for a few years and want a good gut check to answer the question, "Am I doing this right" this is the book for you too. I don't think it will teach experienced professionals anything they don't already know but then again I don't think that was the goal of the book.
UX Design is really focused on how the work of UX designer gets done day to day and its focus on topics that some UX folks ignore, but are critical, like SEO and contract creation are refreshing. The best analogy I can think of regarding this book is that it reminds me of the excellent professional practice guides that the AIGA used to put out years ago.
There's a natural Web focus in this book but folks that are in the UX discipline in any realm should find it useful and perhaps essential reading. Great Guide for New UX Professionals Russ and Carolyn have really done a service for everyone who is either new to UX or is taking on new responsibities in their organization. This is more than just a project guide, as the name humbly implies - in many ways, it's a career guide to how to navigate the many hats a UX professional has to wear, from practitioner to project manager to evangelist.
"A Project Guide to UX Design" takes a broad look at the UX world, covering the basics as well as the business side of many techniques, including personas, user-centered design, user testing, wireframes, and prototyping. It's not a deep dive into any one area, but it's a great overview of the field, even for experienced professionals, and could be a life-saver for anyone new to the field who feels like they're in over their heads. |  |
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