User Experience Re-Mastered: Your Guide to Getting the Right Design

by Chauncey Wilson

Overview

User Experience Re-Mastered: Your Guide to Getting the Right Design provides an understanding of key design and development processes aimed at enhancing the user experience of websites and web applications. The book is organized into four parts. Part 1 deals with the concept of usability, covering user needs analysis and card sorting—a tool for shaping information architecture in websites and software applications. Part 2 focuses on idea generation processes, including brainstorming; sketching; persona development; and the use of prototypes to validate and extract assumptions and requirements that exist among the product team. Part 3 presents core design principles and guidelines for website creation, along with tips and examples on how to apply these principles and guidelines. Part 4 on evaluation and analysis discusses the roles, procedures, and documents needed for an evaluation session; guidelines for planning and conducting a usability test; the analysis and interpretation of data from evaluation sessions; and user interface inspection using heuristic evaluation and other inspection methods.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780123751140
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	10/05/2009
Pages:	396
Product dimensions:	7.40(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Chauncey Wilson is a UX Architect with 40 years of experience in human factors, usability, and user experience design. He has published and presented widely at UXPA, STC, CHI, APA, and HFES conferences. The author has published several books and chapters on usability engineering, brainstorming, surveys, victimization, and inspection methods. He has worked in small and large firms, started teams, consulted for a large firm, and consulted as a lone consultant. He enjoys the role of mentor and always tries to highlight the pros and cons of methods, principles, and processes. He is a member of the Skeptic’s society and enjoys the role of “Chief Skeptic.” Chauncey does not believe in magic numbers, miracle methods, or methodolotry.

Table of Contents

Part I. Usability1. Usability Engineering, by Jakob Nielsen2. Usability for the Web, by Tom Brinck3. Understanding Your Users, by Cathrine CouragePart II. Generating Ideas4. Handbook of UCD Methods, by Chauncey Wilson5. Sketching User Experiences, by Bill Buxton6. The Persona Lifecycle, by John Pruitt7. Effective Prototyping for Software Makers, by Jonathan Arnowitz

Part III. Designing Your Site8. User Interface Design and Evaluation, by Debbie Stone

Part IV. Evaluation & Analysis9. Evaluating Your Product, by Debbie Stone10. Observing the User, by Mike Kuniavsky11. User Interface Design and Evaluation, by Debbie Stone12. User Interface Design and Evaluation, by Debbie Stone

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