Synopses & Reviews
In todays digital world, any product, app, or website requires a professional User Experience (UX) designer to ensure success. With this book, new UX designers will learn the practical skills they need to get started in the field, skills that can be immediately applied to real-world UX projects. UX for Beginners is broken into one hundred short, illustrated lessons, a user-friendly approach that makes learning fun and gives you the foundation you need to succeed as a UX designer. This book is based on the popular UX Crash Course blog at The Hipper Element, which has more than 400,000 readers.
Synopsis
Apps Websites Rubber Ducks Naked Ninjas This book has everything. If you want to get started in user experience design (UX), you've come to the right place: 100 self-contained lessons that cover the whole spectrum of fundamentals.
Forget dry, technical material. This book based on the wildly popular UX Crash Course from Joel Marsh s blog The Hipper Element is laced with the author's snarky brand of humor, and teaches UX in a simple, practical way. Becoming a professional doesn t have to be boring.
Follow the real-life UX process from start-to-finish and apply the skills as you learn, or refresh your memory before the next meeting. UX for Beginners is perfect for non-designers who want to become designers, managers who teach UX, and programmers, salespeople, or marketers who want to learn more.
- Start from scratch: the fundamentals of UX
- Research the weird and wonderful things users do
- The process and science of making anything user-friendly
- Use size, color, and layout to help and influence users
- Plan and create wireframes
- Make your designs feel engaging and persuasive
- Measure how your design works in the real world
- Find out what a UX designer does all day
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About the Author
Joel Marsh has over a decade of experience as a professional designer, with clients that include global brands, like Absolut Vodka, McDonalds, Samsung, and Volvo. He has also been a freelance designer and has worked at successful startups like Stardoll, Piczo, and Trustpilot.
In 2006, Joel relocated to Sweden to join the premiere digital design community there. Joel blogs at The Hipper Element, which includes his UX Crash Course, which has garnered over 400,000 visitors and is the basis for this book. You can also find him on Twitter @JoelMarsh. He recently founded his own startup, Teller Email Browser, which is funded by the owner of Angry Birds and will launch in late 2014.