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The Elements of User Experience: User-Centered Design for the Web
Smart organizations recognize that Web design is more than just creating clean code and sharp graphics. A site that really works fulfills your strategic objectives while meeting the needs of your users. Even the best content and the most sophisticated technology won't help you balance those goals without a cohesive, consistent user experience to support it.
But creating the
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Published
October 21st 2002
by Peachpit Press
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This book essentially dissects the process of website creation, clearly defining every element that goes into planning and implementing a website. This would have provided an invaluable visual map during our last website redesign. Rather than a tangled ball of yarn, I can now see all of the wheels and cogs fit together in a logical manner.
It seems that, of the five planes of the user experience development process (the surface plane, the skeleton plane, the structure plane, the scope plane and...more
It seems that, of the five planes of the user experience development process (the surface plane, the skeleton plane, the structure plane, the scope plane and...more
This book defines each phrase of user-centered designs well.
Strategy(user needs, site objectives),
Scope(functional spedifications, content requirements),
Structure(interaction design, information architecture),
Skeleton(information design), and
Surface(visual design)
Strategy(user needs, site objectives),
Scope(functional spedifications, content requirements),
Structure(interaction design, information architecture),
Skeleton(information design), and
Surface(visual design)
This is a must-read book for anyone involved in web development.
It takes a holistic look at the subject of user experience and provides a very useful vocabulary for all the elements involved in user experience design.
The author provides a model that consists of 5 planes that cover the abstract as well as the concrete aspects of the user experience.
The 5 planes are:
1- Strategy (why you're building the site for you and your users)
2- Scope
3- Structure
4- Skeleton
5- Surface (the visual elements of th...more
It takes a holistic look at the subject of user experience and provides a very useful vocabulary for all the elements involved in user experience design.
The author provides a model that consists of 5 planes that cover the abstract as well as the concrete aspects of the user experience.
The 5 planes are:
1- Strategy (why you're building the site for you and your users)
2- Scope
3- Structure
4- Skeleton
5- Surface (the visual elements of th...more
Мнение сугубо личное, но думаю, с ним согласятся специалисты со стажем.
Книга будет интересна только новичкам или узкопрофильным специалистам. Большинство рекомендаций из области "здравого смысла", которые приобрели популярность с распространением IT технологий в массах.
Очень трудно было читать на русском - во первых, перевод если и без грубых ошибок, то все же написан слишком формальным языком и, как следствие, воспринимается в большим трудом; во вторых - мне лично очень редко приходится читать...more
Книга будет интересна только новичкам или узкопрофильным специалистам. Большинство рекомендаций из области "здравого смысла", которые приобрели популярность с распространением IT технологий в массах.
Очень трудно было читать на русском - во первых, перевод если и без грубых ошибок, то все же написан слишком формальным языком и, как следствие, воспринимается в большим трудом; во вторых - мне лично очень редко приходится читать...more
Absolutely essential reading if this is an area of professional or personal interest.
I try and reread this book once a year as a kind of grounding and to re-establish the key processes and steps involved in considered and effective UX design.
I try and reread this book once a year as a kind of grounding and to re-establish the key processes and steps involved in considered and effective UX design.
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Aug 24, 2008
Kelley
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3 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
Web developers and designers who want to understand UX
I just finished Andy Clarke's Transcending CSS and deciding to delve into The Elements of User Experience which I picked up because, skimming, I realized it was giving me names for what most of us are already doing.
So far, it's concise and Garrett does a nice job of making sure that a web developer doesn't leave a reading of the book with impression that user-centered design isn't connected to a much bigger discipline, human factors design. Garrett hasn't used that word -- or Computer Human Int...more
So far, it's concise and Garrett does a nice job of making sure that a web developer doesn't leave a reading of the book with impression that user-centered design isn't connected to a much bigger discipline, human factors design. Garrett hasn't used that word -- or Computer Human Int...more
Read for the April UX Book Club.
This is a good grounding in how to do user experience design, though I didn't find much new here that I wasn't already aware of before.
I expect that this would make a great introduction to the field for people who want to get into it, or who need to work with UX people.
This is a good grounding in how to do user experience design, though I didn't find much new here that I wasn't already aware of before.
I expect that this would make a great introduction to the field for people who want to get into it, or who need to work with UX people.
Easily read in one long sitting or over a weekend (as I did). If you're attempting a website redesign, this is a good place to start. Even if you've spent several years on the Web and have a feel for the material already, it's a good review and reminder of why these are best practices.
I've recently had a growing interest in the field of User Experience and Human Computer Interaction and this book was a great launching point for that field. It gave a really good idea of what work goes into the field and explained concepts in a very approachable manner.
"This book essentially dissects the process of website creation, clearly defining every element that goes into planning and implementing a website." - Tamara, Web Content Librarian
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Reserve a library copy!
Everything written here about designing websites applies to developing any kind of software. The most important lesson Garrett imparts is to make explicit, conscious decisions at every stage of development about the user experience of your software. Recommended.
It's rare to find a design or technology book so simply written. This book would be as useful to a developer or executive as it would to a designer. It made me think differently about some of the projects I was involved with over the past 10 years.
Give this to your boss if he wants to know what 'all this UX stuff is about.' If he's particularly short of time, print out Garrett's brilliant diagram (www.jjg.net/elements/pdf/elements.pdf) and glue it to his desk.
This was one of the texts for my Information Architecture class. I really liked it both as a textbook and in general as a resource on web design. It's straightforwardness and pure usefulness are its biggest assets. Garrett is clear, direct, and concise throughout the the book, and the diagrams were truly helpful in illustrating and explaining concepts. His framework and approach is logical and practical - it would be relevant and useful for just about any type of website or other such projects.
Read about this book in a UX article on the web. The multiplanar representation of the problem is interesting. Probably not a lot I haven't heard before but a nice concise discussion.
This book reviews the basics of user experience in a way that is easily explainable to your business partners, and is a good one to have handy in case you forget how to explain them...
If I read this a year ago, I would have awarded it 5 stars. It's still a great book and explains the basic principles of UX really well but overall, nothing was really fresh to me. It's rewarding to notice my knowledge progression from novice to competent in the academic arena of UXD.
Garrett touched on the importance of success metrics early into the book and it sparked my interest. With so much to cover in such a small time, this subject wasn't discussed in my curriculum. When applying learned...more
Garrett touched on the importance of success metrics early into the book and it sparked my interest. With so much to cover in such a small time, this subject wasn't discussed in my curriculum. When applying learned...more
Ok overview of the theory of web design. I didn't like that it was all theory with no examples until the last 10 pages so I couldn't picture everything the author talked about.
Solid book on web design. A little out-dated with the proliferation of touch screens, but this book has some core principles which will always apply to product development.
Excellent overview of UX. Would rate it 5 stars, but it could use some updates. I'd be really interested in seeing how the author suggests working within the confines of a CMS, for example.
I first read this book about five years ago, and I re-read it whenever I need to refocus. This is the framework that I hang all other UX knowledge on.
Good book, how they've split the Ux process into 5 steps (which make sense.) Could be a little more in-depth though.
Presents a good overview and structured way of thinking about UX. Despite claims to the contrary, much is limited to the Web.
If you could marry a professional book, this would be at the top of my list.
The concepts and the phases were really easy to understand. It was broken down very nicely.
Good basic overview of user experience design. Well laid-out and uncluttered.
A must read for anyone involved in the UX process.
Nice theoretical construct for designing digital interfaces
A good overview of the website development process.
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Jesse James Garrett is a user experience designer as well as a co-founder of Adaptive Path, a user experience strategy and design firm, and of the Information Architecture Institute. His essays have appeared in New Architect, Boxes and Arrows, and Digital Web Magazine. Jesse attended the University of Florida.
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