User Experience Re-Mastered: Your Guide To Getting The Right Design

Description

Good user interface design isn't just about aesthetics or using the latest technology. Designers also need to ensure their product is offering an optimal user experience. This requires user needs analysis, usability testing, persona creation, prototyping, design sketching, and evaluation through-out the design and development process.

User Experience Re-Mastered takes tried and tested material from best-selling books in Morgan Kaufmann's Series in Interactive Technologies and presents it in typical project framework. Chauncey Wilson guides the reader through each chapter, introducing each stage, explaining its context, and emphasizing its significance in the user experience lifecycle. This gives readers practical and easily applicable direction for creating web sites and web applications that ensure the ultimate experience. A must read for students, those new to the field, and anyone designing interfaces for people!

* A guided, hands-on tour through the process of creating the ultimate user experience - from testing, to prototyping, to design, to evaluation

* Provides tried and tested material from best sellers in Morgan Kaufmann's Series in Interactive Technologies

* Presents material from luminaries field in a straightforward, easy to digest format ideal for students and those new to the field

CONTENTS:

Part I- Usability
Chapter 1: Usability Engineering, by Jakob Nielsen
Chapter 2: Usability for the Web, by Tom Brinck
Chapter 3: Understanding Your Users, by Cathrine Courage

Part II- Generating Ideas
Chapter 4: Handbook of UCD Methods, by Chauncey Wilson
Chapter 5: Sketching User Experiences, by Bill Buxton
Chapter 6: The Persona Lifecycle, by John Pruitt
Chapter 7: Effective Prototyping for Software Makers, by Jonathan Arnowitz

Part III- Designing Your Site
Chapter 8: User Interface Design and Evaluation, by Debbie Stone

Part IV-Evaluation & Analysis
Chapter 9: Evaluating Your Product, by Debbie Stone
Chapter 10: Observing the User, by Mike Kuniavsky
Chapter 11: User Interface Design and Evaluation, by Debbie Stone
Chapter 12: User Interface Design and Evaluation, by Debbie Stone