The UX Book: Process and Guidelines for Ensuring a Quality User Experience

By Pardha S. Pyla and Rex Hartson

Book Overview

The UX Book: Process and Guidelines for Ensuring a Quality User Experience aims to help readers learn how to create and refine interaction designs that ensure a quality user experience (UX). The book seeks to expand the concept of traditional usability to a broader notion of user experience; to provide a hands-on, practical guide to best practices and established principles in a UX lifecycle; and to describe a pragmatic process for managing the overall development effort. The book provides an iterative and evaluation-centered UX lifecycle template, called the Wheel, for interaction design. Key concepts discussed include contextual inquiry and analysis; extracting interaction design requirements; constructing design-informing models; design production; UX goals, metrics, and targets; prototyping; UX evaluation; the interaction cycle and the user action framework; and UX design guidelines. This book will be useful to anyone interested in learning more about creating interaction designs to ensure a quality user experience. These include interaction designers, graphic designers, usability analysts, software engineers, programmers, systems analysts, software quality-assurance specialists, human factors engineers, cognitive psychologists, cosmic psychics, trainers, technical writers, documentation specialists, marketing personnel, and project managers.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0123852412
• ISBN13: 9780123852410
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers
• Length: 937 Pages
• Weight: 3.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 7.7" x 9.4"