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Wireframing Essentials

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Learn the fundamentals of designing the user experience for applications and websites Whether you are looking to become a professional UX Designer, or just need to get the job done, the principles and processes discussed in this book will help you understand how to craft reliably effective and successful design solutions. Designing the user experience (UX) for websites and applications can be an exhilarating and satisfying experience, but it can also be a chaotic and frustrating endeavor. The key to success lies in a thorough understanding of the industry standard design process, and in possessing a firm grasp of effective and proven UX design techniques. This book is a comprehensive, yet concise, primer for those looking to better understand the core principles of UX design. It illustrates these principles with example projects, warns you of common obstacles, and introduces you to proven methodologies that help facilitate your efforts to find design solutions that work. This book will put you on the road to becoming a UX designer by teaching you the process and techniques used by design professionals to create world-class applications and websites. This introduction to user experience design will instruct you on the required research and groundwork that will help you cut through the ambiguity commonly experienced when starting a project. It will show you how to turn the results of your research into task flow diagrams and wireframes that will be used to evolve your designs into solutions that will work for all of your customers and users.

112 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2014

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Profile Image for Adrienne Ingram.
24 reviews42 followers
April 3, 2019
I liked it so much that I immediately read it twice. This was a great book to reference for beginners in UX design. I highly recommend it.
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March 21, 2019
Quite an amazing book I must say, author did impressively well explaining a lot of topics.
Profile Image for Efren Martinez.
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April 16, 2015
This book is awesome, Doesn't matter if you're just beginning on UX, or if you're a Senior in the field, Wireframing Essentials teach/remind you how to plan, design and program a good User Experience, Every one of the chapters in it, Is a precise, centered and effective methodology to achieve the quality and requirements of any project you're working on.

Reading this book, even with a lot of years of experience, you have a lot of "Mmm... that make sense" moments, even more if the chapter that you're reading, match with an existing issue in your current project, this book will help you to fix/foreknow any kind of issue related with you UX, which is very important, anticipate any negative impact on the user. because after all, a good UX is like a joke: If you have to explain it, is not good enough.

Wireframing Essentials is a very complete book, but nothing boring, is not the typical book with definitions and tedious processes that at the end you know everything about some topic, except how to implement it...( duh! ), Wireframing Essentials explains with a very complete example from beginning to end, what is the ideal process to have a great UX Design, doesn't matter the role or final user of your project.
Profile Image for Efren Martinez.
2 reviews
April 16, 2015
This book is awesome, Doesn't matter if you're just beginning on UX, or if you're a Senior in the field, Wireframing Essentials teach/remind you how to plan, design and program a good User Experience, Every one of the chapters in it, Is a precise, centered and effective methodology to achieve the quality and requirements of any project you're working on.

Reading this book, even with a lot of years of experience, you have a lot of "Mmm... that make sense" moments, even more if the chapter that you're reading, match with an existing issue in your current project, this book will help you to fix/foreknow any kind of issue related with you UX, which is very important, anticipate any negative impact on the user. because after all, a good UX is like a joke: If you have to explain it, is not good enough.

Wireframing Essentials is a very complete book, but nothing boring, is not the typical book with definitions and tedious processes that at the end you know everything about some topic, except how to implement it...( duh! ), Wireframing Essentials explains with a very complete example from beginning to end, what is the ideal process to have a great UX Design, doesn't matter the role or final user of your project.
Profile Image for Enmanuel Toribio.
10 reviews4 followers
March 11, 2014
This books explains the essentials of wireframing and by that it means manage the planning of user experience design for applications.

I like how short it is. It explains each new concept well enough, gives some research and visual design techniques, the creation of user cases as “personas” (it even recommends some books on the subject). It also show’s two real life practical examples to apply concepts and potential situations regarding clients and how to deal with them. It is very straightforward and that’s my favorite part because I hate when books get redundant.

The two practical examples are a website and a mobile application. In both examples the author takes you through each design step and shows you the sketches and flowcharts as it goes along.

Overall it is a very good book and i recommend it for upcoming project managers.
Profile Image for Jose Papo.
260 reviews155 followers
June 15, 2014
A basic book. Good for beginners in the UX area. It has some interesting tips and tricks who are very useful. I liked especially chapter 3 with the example mobile app project
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8 reviews4 followers
September 19, 2016
The book introduces a lot of interesting ideas and provide inexperienced UX designers with useful advice about the workflow and how to corporate with tech teams.
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