Intuitive Design: Eight Steps to an Intuitive UI

by Everett N. McKay, Devon Musgrave (Editor), Jodi Hersh (Cover Design)

Make your designs immediately self-explanatory and easy to use, and never “agree to disagree” again about whether they are intuitive! Your To design an intuitive UI for your next project. Your You’re not sure what “intuitive UI” really means. Worst Your team isn’t sure either, so your discussions about intuitive design are unproductive and opinion-driven. If this sounds familiar, Intuitive Eight Steps to an Intuitive UI will give you the insight, principles, and guidelines you need to get the job done. You’ll learn the objective and actionable steps for designing intuitive UIs—for mobile, web, and desktop apps. Mission accomplished!

Genres: Design, Nonfiction, Audiobook

216 pages, Paperback

Published February 7, 2018

About the author

Everett McKay is Principal of UX Design Edge and a UX design trainer and consultant with global clientele. Everett’s specialty is finding practical, intuitive, simple, highly usable solutions quickly for web, mobile, and desktop applications. Everett has over 30 years’ experience in user interface design and has delivered UX design workshops to an international audience that includes Europe, Asia, South America, and Africa.

Everett is author of "Intuitive Design: Eight Steps to an Intuitive Design", the definitive guide to designing intuitive interactions, and "UI Is Communication: How to Design Intuitive, User Centered Interfaces by Focusing on Effective Communication", a groundbreaking approach to UI design using human communication-based principles and techniques. While at Microsoft, Everett wrote the Windows UX Guidelines for Windows 7 and Windows Vista. Everett holds a Masters Degree in Computer Science from MIT.

Reviews

[Lucas Xavier · Rating 4 out of 5]

Gives you great tools to either evaluate the UI in your apps and to convince stakeholders of a better approach.

[Jonna · Rating 5 out of 5]

So insightful! A must-read if you're in the UX/UI field.

[John · Rating 4 out of 5]

clear, concise information. Lot of good tips but hard to bring the concepts to life without more detail.