Rex Hartson, Pardha S Pyla

The UX Book

Agile UX Design for a Quality User Experience

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Produktbeschreibung

The UX Book: Agile Design for a Quality User Experience, Third Edition, takes a practical, applied, hands-on approach to UX design based on the application of established and emerging best practices, principles, and proven methods to ensure a quality user experience. The approach is about practice, drawing on the creative concepts of design exploration and visioning to make designs that appeal to the emotions of users, while moving toward processes that are lightweight, rapid, and agile-to make things as good as resources permit and to value time and other resources in the process. Designed as a textbook for aspiring students and a how-to handbook and field guide for UX professionals, the book is accompanied by in-class exercises and team projects. The approach is practical rather than formal or theoretical. The primary goal is to imbue an understanding of what a good user experience is and how to achieve it. To better serve this, processes, methods, and techniques are introduced early to establish process-related concepts as context for discussion in later chapters.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Elsevier LTD
• 3rd Edition
• Seitenzahl: 744
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juni 2025
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 450g
• ISBN-13: 9780443134432
• ISBN-10: 044313443X
• Artikelnr.: 71596044

Autorenporträt

Rex Hartson is a pioneer researcher, teacher, and practitioner-consultant in HCI and UX. He is the founding faculty member of HCI (in 1979) in the Department of Computer Science at Virginia Tech. With Deborah Hix, he was co-author of one of the first books to emphasize the usability engineering process, Developing user interfaces: Ensuring usability through product & process. Hartson has been principle investigator or co-PI at Virginia Tech on a large number of research grants and has published many journal articles, conference papers, and book chapters. He has presented many tutorials, invited lectures, workshops, seminars, and international talks. He was editor or co-editor for Advances in Human-Computer Interaction, Volumes 1-4, Ablex Publishing Co., Norwood, NJ. His HCI practice is grounded in over 30 years of consulting and user experience engineering training for dozens of clients in business, industry, government, and the military.

Inhaltsangabe

PART 1. INTRODUCTION 1. What is UX and UX design? 2. The Wheel: UX
processes, lifecycles, methods, and technique 3. Scope, rigor, complexity,
and project perspectives 4. Agile lifecycle processes and the Funnel Model
of Agile UX 5. Prelude to the process chapters 6. Background: Introduction
PART 2. UNDERSTAND NEEDS 7. Usage research data elicitation 8. Usage
research data analysis 9. Usage research data modeling 10. UX design
requirements: User stories and requirements 11. Background: Understand
Needs PART 3. DESIGN SOLUTIONS 12. The nature of UX design 13. Bottom-up
vs. top-down design 14. Generative design: Ideation, sketching, and
critiquing 15. Mental models and conceptual design 16. Designing the
ecology and a pervasive information architecture 17. Designing the
interaction 18. Designing for emotional impact 19. Background: Design PART
4. PROTOTYPE CANDIDATES 20. Prototyping PART 5. EVALUATE UX 21. UX
evaluation methods and techniques 22. UX evaluation: UX goals, metrics, and
targets 23. Preparation for empirical UX evaluation 24. Empirical data
collection methods and techniques 25. Analytical data collection methods
and techniques 26. UX Evaluation: Data analysis 27. UX evaluation:
Reporting results 28. Background: UX evaluation PART 6. AGILE UX AND
CONNECTIONS TO AGILE SE 29. Connecting agile UX with agile software
development 30. Background: Agile connections PART 7. AFFORDANCES AND
DESIGN GUIDELINES 31. Affordances in UX design 32. The interaction cycle
33. UX design guidelines 34. Background: Affordances and UX design
principles

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Chapter 1: Introduction Part I: Process Chapter 2: The Wheel: A Lifecycle Template Chapter 3: Contextual Inquiry: Eliciting Work Activity Data Chapter 4: Contextual Analysis: Consolidating and Interpreting Work Activity Data Chapter 5: Extracting Interaction Design Requirements Chapter 6: Constructing Design-Informing Models Chapter 7: Design Thinking, Ideation and Sketching Chapter 8: Mental Models and Conceptual Design Chapter 9: Design Production Chapter 10: UX Goals, Metrics and Targets Chapter 11: Prototyping Chapter 12: UX Evaulation Introduction Chapter 13: Rapid Evaluation Methods Chapter 14: Rigorous Empirical Evaluation: Preparation Chapter 15: Rigorous Empirical Evaluation: Running the Session Chapter 16: Rigorous Empirical Evaluation: Analysis Chapter 17: Evaluation Reporting Chapter 18: Wrapping up Rigorous UX Evaluation Chapter 19: UX Methods for Agile Development Part II: Design Infrastructure Guidelines Chapter 20: Affordances Demystified Chapter 21: The Interaction Cycle and the User Action Framework Chapter 22: UX Design Guidelines Part III: Advanced Topics Chapter 23: Connections with Software Engineering Chapter 24: Making it Work in the Real World References Exercises Index

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