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

by Rex Hartson, Pardha S Pyla

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 grounding in HCI concepts and theory.The authors will guide you through the UX lifecycle process, including contextual inquiry and analysis, requirements extraction, design ideation and creation, practical design production, prototyping, and UX evaluation. Development activities are linked via handoffs between stages as practitioners move through the process. The lifecycle template concept introduced in this book can be tailored to any project environment, from large enterprise system development to commercial products.Students and practitioners alike will come away with knowledge and understanding of how to create and refine interaction designs to ensure a quality user experience.For more information see theuxbook.com*A very broad approach to user experience through its components-usability, usefulness, and emotional impact with special attention to lightweight methods such as rapid UX evaluation techniques and an agile UX development process *Universal applicability of processes, principles, and guidelines-not just for GUIs and the Web, but for all kinds of interaction and embodied interaction, mobile devices, ATMs, refrigerators, and elevator controls, and even highway signage *Extensive design guidelines applied in the context of the various kinds of affordances necessary to support all aspects of interaction *Real-world stories and contributions from accomplished UX practitioners *A practical guide to best practices and established principles in UX *A lifecycle template that can be instantiated and tailored to a given project, for a given type of system development, on a given budget.

Genres: Design, Nonfiction, School, Technology, Textbooks

968 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2012

Reviews

[Abhinav Krishna · Rating 4 out of 5]

Must read for the UX designer

[Gaby Prado · Rating 4 out of 5]

A very good primer, very comprehensive. Classroom material, a must for beginners

[Emil Petersen · Rating 1 out of 5]

There are just too many pages in this book. I'd say 200-300 could have done the job. I suspect that the writers of teaching books are paid by number of pages and not by relevance. There are real values to get from reading The UX Book, but you will have to comb through so much before you find it. It's a shame and it's not OK.

[Jules C · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very dense but one of the best books I've found that digs deep into design process (moreso than About Face IMO). Visually not the most pleasant reading experience, slightly better than academic papers lol

[Jack Ogden · Rating 2 out of 5]

Some decent info, but wayyyyyy too long and contradictory.

[Regions Photos · Rating 5 out of 5]

It's great

[Nasser Ali · Rating 4 out of 5]

a not enough must read for beginners.
generally a very good book for understanding the overall process of UX.