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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. "  -- 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

Subscriber Reviews

Average Rating: 3.4 out of 5 rating Based on 5 Ratings

"The Essential Beginner's Guide to UX Design" - by Rachel Greaves on 01-FEB-2010
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If you're new (or not so new) to UX design you will get value from this book.

Russ Unger and Carolyn Chandler's A Project Guide to UX Design: For User Experience Designers in the Field or in the Making, offers a broad discussion about UX Design techniques and the realities of UX practice.

Topics covered include an overview of UX design, user testing and research techniques, managing a UX design project, proposals and contracts, milestones and payment.

This is not a once-to-read, linear book. While you certainly can read it in a linear fashion this is likely to be the book you'll keep handy on your shelf. Keep it close for those times when someone asks a tricky question and you want to say something more than "it depends".

In addition to the technical UX design discussion in this book you'll find sensible and easy to apply advice on managing a project (including client expectations, payment, legal) from start to finish.

I highly recommend this book to anyone with an interest in UX or manages web or software projects.

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