UX: FMK: User Experience: F**k, Marry, or Kill

by Tim Broadwater, David Edwin Meyers (Foreword)

Using the all too familiar premise of the original FMK game, this book invites you to take a deep dive into UX and what works, what doesn’t work, what has longevity, and how royally things can be screwed up.

Genres: Design

132 pages, Paperback

Published June 4, 2020

About the author

Tim Broadwater is a certified UX Unicorn who does his part to improve humanity-centered design. Tim is a life-long UXer with 20+ years of User Experience in the fields of design, eCommerce, information technology, marketing, nonprofits, and software development.

Tim has developed an expertise in Instructional Design, UI Design, Front-End Development, UX Research, and Business Strategy which is evident in his consultancy, podcasting, speaking, and writing.

Tim lives in the greater Pittsburgh area where he champions digital product life cycles, Lean UX principles, and aligning user/business goals.

Reviews

[David J. · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is great for designers, developers, and other professionals in and around the user experience world. I would also assert that maybe company owners, tech leads, and project managers should listen to this before making their next UX/UI position. It focuses on being productive in terms of both business and UX/UI. The author relates real life work experience into steps to take in your career to have an easy path to success as a UX professional. As a full stack developer, I feel this book does drive home some points that may help me with project management and feature management in the applications I develop. Another great part of this book is it shares strategies that teams can use to work together in a more productive way. I appreciate the author when he uses phrases and euphemisms to get his point across, such as my favorite line, “…razzle-dazzle the client, throw hookers through the window… and get them drunk approach”. Overall if you’re a designer, web designer, developer, team lead or project manager you should consider reading or listening to this book, it will not be a waste of your time either way.

[Dr G · Rating 5 out of 5]

As I enjoy reading buisness and career strategy books enjoyed this book. Aimed at a obviously younger generation than I am, does have good solid career advise that will be very useful. Worth the time.

[Lynn Bevilacqua · Rating 4 out of 5]

I learned about the do’s and don’ts of an UX professional. I also have a better understanding of what a UX does and what to expect from one when asking questions on what they can do for me. This book wasn’t quite what I expected but I made it through it and learned a few things along the way. Thanks for the free book and best of luck in your career.

[Sam · Rating 5 out of 5]

Definitely an interesting way of presenting the material and can be a very helpful reference for those either working in or working with UX designers or any sort of design/technology project where having a coherent and clear UX is critical.

[Adam Bricker · Rating 4 out of 5]

*I won this book as part of a First Reads giveaway*

I'm not very tech-savvy and some of this was lost on me, and some was inferred from context, but overall it was straight forward talk about any number of positions in a business that is based on pleasing a customer and making things for pleasant for the end user. Granted, while the book is about User Experience professionals and how to learn and grow in that specific field, I think a lot of the information in this book can be applied to anybody that is looking to get the most out of their work environment. Also, this F*ck, Marry, Kill structure was very unique and kept things interesting.