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Smashing UX Design: Foundations for Designing Online User Experiences
The ultimate guide to UX from the world's most popular resource for web designers and developers
"Smashing Magazine" is the world′s most popular resource for web designers and developers and with this book the authors provide the ideal resource for mastering User Experience Design (UX).
The authors provide an overview of UX and User Centred Design and examine in detail sixteen of the most common UX design and research tools and techniques for your web projects.
The authors share their top tips from their collective 30 years of working in UX including: Guides to when and how to use the most appropriate UX research and design techniques such as usability testing, prototyping, wire framing, sketching, information architecture & running workshopsHow to plan UX projects to suit different budgets, time constraints and business objectivesCase studies from real UX projects that explain how particular techniques were used to achieve the client's goalsChecklists to help you choose the right UX tools and techniques for the job in handTypical user and business requirements to consider when designing business critical pages such as homepages, forms, product pages and mobile interfaces as well as explanations of key things to consider when designing for mobile, internationalization and behavioural change.
Smashing UX Design is the complete UX reference manual. Treat it as the UX expert on your bookshelf that you can read from cover-to-cover, or to dip into as the need arises, regardless of whether you have 'UX' in your job title or not.
"Smashing Magazine" is the world′s most popular resource for web designers and developers and with this book the authors provide the ideal resource for mastering User Experience Design (UX).
The authors provide an overview of UX and User Centred Design and examine in detail sixteen of the most common UX design and research tools and techniques for your web projects.
The authors share their top tips from their collective 30 years of working in UX including: Guides to when and how to use the most appropriate UX research and design techniques such as usability testing, prototyping, wire framing, sketching, information architecture & running workshopsHow to plan UX projects to suit different budgets, time constraints and business objectivesCase studies from real UX projects that explain how particular techniques were used to achieve the client's goalsChecklists to help you choose the right UX tools and techniques for the job in handTypical user and business requirements to consider when designing business critical pages such as homepages, forms, product pages and mobile interfaces as well as explanations of key things to consider when designing for mobile, internationalization and behavioural change.
Smashing UX Design is the complete UX reference manual. Treat it as the UX expert on your bookshelf that you can read from cover-to-cover, or to dip into as the need arises, regardless of whether you have 'UX' in your job title or not.
446 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2012
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March 16, 2017
I think it should be the 2nd book every beginner UX designer should read (after Don't make me think).
There you find the whole UX process step by step, examples of real projects and descriptions of UX techniques and tools.
There you find the whole UX process step by step, examples of real projects and descriptions of UX techniques and tools.
May 26, 2013
It is a well-structured book which goes step-by-step through all the major techniques for designing a good user experience for the Web sites. I picked up several interesting methods on working with clients and on designing different parts of the Web experience (navigation, forms, search etc). I very much agree with the general philosophy the book is conveying as well.
On the other hand, it could have been shorter - many things seem rather trivial and, at times, repetitive. The chapters have too many sub-chapters with the same structure. In addition, the book focuses pretty much on solely designing Web shops - there could have been more variety in the examples and (a lot to wish from UX book perhaps) anything on designing Web experience for professional users (corporate interfaces).
On the other hand, it could have been shorter - many things seem rather trivial and, at times, repetitive. The chapters have too many sub-chapters with the same structure. In addition, the book focuses pretty much on solely designing Web shops - there could have been more variety in the examples and (a lot to wish from UX book perhaps) anything on designing Web experience for professional users (corporate interfaces).
February 21, 2014
An excellent book for the beginner and intermediate UX designer
May 11, 2017
Great instructive book. Don't require anything else after this.
October 27, 2020
Good for UX project planning, less so for actual design principles / techniques etc.
July 5, 2016
Valuable book with many real project examples but hard to go through it to the end.
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