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A Project Guide to UX Design: For User Experience Designers in the Field or in the Making
“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 navigate
...morePaperback, 267 pages
Published
March 1st 2009
by New Riders Publishing
(first published January 12th 2009)
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This is a pretty good introduction to the usability process and methods, but if you're a "user experience designer in the field", you probably won't get much out of it. So for the "UX designers in the making", this gives enough of an overview of the methods to know when and why you would use a particular method. It also includes enough of the "how" that you could get by on a smaller project (or a larger project with a mentor). But if you need to be a self-taught UX designer, you'll need to find...more
A Project Guide to UX Design provides a basic overview for designers new to the UX field. Unger reviews several process of UX design including how to gather business requirements, user research, wireframes, protoypes as well as SEO considerations and how they are integrated into projects. Unger also includes many references to other books and online resources throughout for further reading.
The book's description states that it is "for user experience designers in the field or in the making," how...more
The book's description states that it is "for user experience designers in the field or in the making," how...more
Mar 17, 2010
Rafael Bandeira
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review of another edition
Recommends it for:
designers, web developers, programmers, product managers, marketers
Recommended to Rafael by:
Rafael Lüder
Here is part of my review, there's more in http://wp.me/piW5A-4A.
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The book brings the entire environment and life cycle of a web application project to discussion, showing how each piece connects with others and where the UX Designer role fits into it. It also details how particular activities and tasks look like and what are the best practices for them.
But it doesn’t stop there, it goes way beyond, really deep into what a UX Designer really needs to know and do to become a proficient and useful
Somewhat basic. If you already have some experience managing a web team, building websites according to customer specifications, or managing the process of helping the customer define the problem in the first place, you may not need this book. If, on the other hand, you're a newbie, you could do worse than to spend a weekend with this book. Its list of online resources alone are worth it
Great overview of the field, very easy to read. It'll also make a great reference book for all those UX tasks I don't do every day. There were times where I wish it was a bit more detailed or prescriptive, but I understand that it isn't the true aim of the book. Plus, there are plenty of sidebars suggesting further reading in the form of books, articles, and blog posts. Definitely recommended to anyone who does UX work or who works with people that do.
UX design 101; user studies, personas, business strategy, project management, client management, etc. Good reference for those who would like to know the basics of what UX designers are doing - also gives in-line recommended further reading. Not as much info on integrating UX ideas into the visual design side; an interesting read nonetheless.
It has been popular and recommended books among UX Leaders but i find book to be saying most of stuff already said by other books. However if you've read any other UX book yet, i suggest start with this because it is truly comprehensive book about UX at Practice.
An essential book for digital marketers working with users, clients, and customers. Taught me in 2 weekends an entire course's worth of information, all without being overloaded. Plus it has bonus resources easily categorized for your convenience. Seriously recommend!
I used this book along with Steve Krug's publications on web usability to conduct my first usability testing sessions early this year. I would definitely recommend it to people starting out on UX looking for a bit of structure, or those with a moderate amount of experience who are interested in fleshing out their processes a little more.
The writing is straightforward, clear, and examples are well-laid out, with many opportunities for deeper reading online. I found myself diving in and out of thi...more
The writing is straightforward, clear, and examples are well-laid out, with many opportunities for deeper reading online. I found myself diving in and out of thi...more
heard about this through a uxmag wireframing article, which was written for the wireframing chapter: http://uxmag.com/articles/shades-of-g...
The emphasis is on project management of content websites, rather than information about user experience or interaction design as I had been hoping. Gave up halfway through.
This is a go-to primer & all encompassing resource for new UX designers. I would highly recommend this book for those setting out in the agency & corporate design. I would not recommend this for startup hackers.
Great book on UX design. I borrowed it form the library and now own a copy
Great book for new UX professionals or organizations new to UX
Excellent book to initiate in UX's studies
Well written and with some good insights in the planning and process from start to end of an UX Project.
It's easy to understand why is one of the most recommended books in the area.
It's easy to understand why is one of the most recommended books in the area.
It is a good book for beginners of IA. It doesn't go over your head. It explains things well enough to comprehend and implement efficiently.
Not that the book wasn't interesting, but...I discussed it with some fairly intelligent UX folks and while they agree that there is value, this book is not the best guide for getting into UX.
Excellent quick overview of UX and the staple methods and processes. Not enough detail for a practitioner to use as a reliable reference book, however.
Its a welcome addition to my UX toolkit. It's a useful reference. It's not a perfect reference, but as far as I know that doesn't exist yet.
Boring. A required text for our Information Architecture class. Very dry read.
Great overview, from a novice to intermediate level Design thinker.
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Russ Unger is the director of experience planning for Draftfcb, the largest advertising/marketing agency in the Midwest. He has been involved in the information architecture of large-scale public-facing sites for such companies as Oprah.com and United Airlines. He has taught courses in Web and interactive design and contributes to Boxes and Arrows. He also serves on the board of the Information Ar...more
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