The UX book : process and guidelines for ensuring a quality user experience / Rex Hartson, Pardha S. Pyla.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hartson, H. Rex.

Contributor:

Pyla, Pardha S.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

User interfaces (Computer systems).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (973 p.)

Other Title:

User experience book

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Morgan Kaufmann, 2012.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

The UX Book, winner of a 2013 Most Promising New Textbook Award from the Text and Academic Authors Association, is a comprehensive textbook on designing interaction to ensure a quality user experience. Combining breadth, depth, and practical applications, this book takes a time-tested process-and-guidelines approach that provides readers with actionable methods and techniques while retaining a firm grounding in human-computer interaction (HCI) concepts and theory. The authors will guide you through the UX lifecycle process, including contextual inquiry and analysis, requiremen

Contents:

Front Cover; The UX Book: Process and Guidelines for Ensuringa Quality User Experience; Copyright; Dedication; Preface; Goals for This Book; Usability Is Still Important; But User Experience Is More than Usability; A Practical Approach; Order of the Material; Use the Index; Our Audience; Increasing Maturity of the Discipline and Audience; What We Do Not Cover; About the Exercises; The Exercises Are an Integral Part of the Course Structure; Take Them in Order; Do the Exercises in a Group if You Can; Students; Practitioners: Get buy-in to do the exercises at work; Individuals; Projects

StudentsPractitioners; Origins of the Book; Real-World Experience; Research and Literature; Arousing the Design ""Stickler"" in You; Further Information on Our Website; About the Authors; Acknowledgments; Guiding Principles for the UXPractitioner; Contents; Chapter 1: Introduction; 1.1. Ubiquitous interaction; 1.1.1. Desktops, Graphical User Interfaces, and the Web Are Still Here and Growing; 1.1.2. The Changing Concept of Computing; 1.1.3. The Changing Concept of Interaction; 1.2. Emerging desire for usability; 1.3. From usability to user experience

1.3.1. The Traditional Concept of Usability1.3.2. Misconceptions about Usability; 1.3.3. The Expanding Concept of Quality in Our Designs; 1.3.4. Is Not Emotional Impact What We Have Been Calling User Satisfaction?; 1.3.5. Functionality Is Important, but a Quality User Experience Can Be Even More So; 1.3.6. A Good User Experience Does Not Necessarily Mean High-Tech or ``Cool ́ ́; 1.3.7. Design beyond Just Technology; 1.3.8. Components of a User Experience; Utility; Functional Integrity; Usability; Persuasiveness; Graphic Design; 1.3.9. User Experience Is (Mostly) Felt Internally by the User

1.3.10. User Experience Cannot Be Designed1.3.11. Role of Branding, Marketing, and Corporate Culture; 1.3.12. Why Have Such a Broad Definition?; 1.4. Emotional impact as part of the user experience; 1.4.1. The Potential Breadth of Emotional Impact; The Connectedness of Music; The Disconnection of Absorption; The Serendipity of New Projects; UX Is Work of the Spirit; 1.4.2. A Convincing Anecdote; 1.4.3. Aesthetics and Affect; 1.4.4. The Centrality of Context; 1.4.5. What about Fun at Work?; 1.5. User experience needs a business case; 1.5.1. Is the Fuss over Usability or User Experience Real?

1.5.2. No One Is Complaining and It Is Selling Like Hotcakes1.5.3. A Business Strategy: Training as a Substitute for Usability in Design; 1.6. Roots of usability; 1.6.1. A Discipline Coming of Age; 1.6.2. Human Factors and Industrial and Systems Engineering; 1.6.3. Psychology and Cognitive Science; 1.6.4. Task Analysis; 1.6.5. Theory; 1.6.6. Formal Methods; 1.6.7. Human Work Activity and Ethnography; 1.6.8. Computer Science: Interactive Graphics, Devices, and Interaction Techniques; 1.6.9. Software Engineering; Chapter 2: The Wheel: A LifecycleTemplate; 2.1. Introduction

2.1.1. Flying without a Process

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9786613434111

9781283434119

1283434113

9780123852427

0123852420

OCLC:

773566724