This is the Safari online edition of the printed book.

Many small teams are responsible for delivering very large projects and products.  Often, these teams are made up of complimentary skillsets and different opinions as to the team approach.  Additionally, many newcomers to User Experience --as well as those new to freelance work-- struggle for guidelines to help them move through projects that they are expected to build and manage. The purpose of this book is to provide enough information to help guide these small teams and professionals through User Experience projects and point them to resources in areas where they have a need for additional depth on a topic.

This book presents a chapter-by-chapter guide through an appropriate User Experience process, as well as provides additional information on the creating SOWs and Proposals, Project Ecosystem, best practices for meetings, and understanding business requirements. User Experience neophytes and professionals alike should be able to find information relevant to any phase of a project in this book.

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Excellent Tool for Anyone who Cares About the User Experience - 2009-05-20
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Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R1R9PEH8D1YQMA A great overview of user experience project approaches. This book provides insight as well as practicalities to both novice and experienced UX project team members.

Great book for new UX professionals or organizations new to UX - 2009-07-04
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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.

A complete guide for a new comer - 2009-10-27
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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 Guide for New UX Professionals - 2009-06-15
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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.

excellent read - 2009-05-30
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Excellent book. A must read for any User Experience designer, Information Architect and Interaction Designer.
It is very informative and will help you better understand the mythology and process. I recommend this to designers, developers and business owners.

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