The UX book : process and guidelines for ensuring a quality user experience

This is a comprehensive textbook on designing interaction to ensure a quality user experience. Combining breadth, depth, and practical applications, this book takes a time-tested process-and-guidelines approach that provides readers with actionable methods and techniques while retaining a firm groun...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author Hartson, Rex
Other Authors Pyla, Pardha S.
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Amsterdam : Morgan Kaufmann, 2012.
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9780123852427
0123852420
9780123852410
0123852412
Physical Description1 online resource (xxxiv, 937 pages) : color illustrations

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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The wheel: a lifecycle template
  • Contextual inquiry: eliciting work activity data
  • Contextual analysis: consolidating and interpreting work activity data
  • Extracting interaction design requirements
  • Constructing design-informing models
  • Design thinking, ideation, and sketching
  • Mental models and conceptual design
  • Design production
  • UX goals, metrics, and targets
  • Prototyping
  • UX evaluation introduction
  • Rapid evaluation methods
  • Rigorous empirical evaluation; preparation
  • Rigorous empirical evaluation; running the session
  • Rigorous empirical evaluation: analysis
  • Evaluation reporting
  • Wrapping up evaluation UX
  • UX methods for agile development
  • Affordances demystified
  • The interaction cycle and the user action framework
  • UX design guidelines
  • Connections with software engineering
  • Making it work in the real world.