Overview
Get up to speed on the industry standard design process
Learn how to architect your product with task flow diagrams
Create wireframes with real world examples
In Detail
Designing the user experience (UX) for websites and applications can be an exhilarating and satisfying experience, but it can also be a chaotic and frustrating endeavor. The key to success lies in a thorough understanding of the industry standard design process, and in possessing a firm grasp of effective and proven UX design techniques.
This book is a comprehensive, yet concise, primer for those looking to better understand the core principles of UX design. It illustrates these principles with example projects, warns you of common obstacles, and introduces you to proven methodologies that help facilitate your efforts to find design solutions that work.
This book will put you on the road to becoming a UX designer by teaching you the process and techniques used by design professionals to create world-class applications and websites. This introduction to user experience design will instruct you on the required research and groundwork that will help you cut through the ambiguity commonly experienced when starting a project. It will show you how to turn the results of your research into task flow diagrams and wireframes that will be used to
What you will learn from this book
Generate interaction maps and task flow diagrams
Create wireframe design proposals
Interact with clients who need design services
Understand your users with by creating personas
Establish design tenets that will help you stay on the right track
Quantify a design solution using heuristic evaluations
Ensure your brainstorming sessions are successful
Get started with the design process with the help of user survey and focus groups
Use paper prototyping and other testing techniques to help you predict success
Approach
An easy to follow, example-based guide introducing you to the world of user experience design through the author's real world experiences
Who this book is written for
Whether you are looking to become a professional UX Designer, or just need to get the job done, the principles and processes discussed in this book will help you understand how to craft reliably effective and successful design solutions.
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