The UX Book: Agile UX Design for a Quality User Experience, Second Edition
- 15h 6m
- Pardha Pyla, Rex Hartson
- Elsevier Science and Technology Books, Inc.
- 2019
The discipline of user experience (UX) design has matured into a confident practice and this edition reflects, and in some areas accelerates, that evolution. Technically this is the second edition of The UX Book, but so much of it is new, it is more like a sequel.
One of the major positive trends in UX is the continued emphasis on design―a kind of design that highlights the designer’s creative skills and insights and embodies a synthesis of technology with usability, usefulness, aesthetics, and meaningfulness to the user. In this edition a new conceptual top-down design framework is introduced to help readers with this evolution.
This entire edition is oriented toward an agile UX lifecycle process, explained in the funnel model of agile UX, as a better match to the now de facto standard agile approach to software engineering. To reflect these trends, even the subtitle of the book is changed to “Agile UX design for a quality user experience.
Designed as a how-to-do-it handbook and field guide for UX professionals and a textbook for aspiring students, the book is accompanied by in-class exercises and team projects.
The approach is practical rather than formal or theoretical. The primary goal is still 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.
About the Authors
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.
Pardha S. Pyla is a Senior User Experience Specialist and Interaction Design Team Lead at Bloomberg LP. Before that he was a researcher and a UX consultant. As an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Computer Science at Virginia Tech he worked on user experience methodologies and taught graduate and undergraduate courses in HCI and Software Engineering. He is a pioneer researcher in the area of bridging the gaps between software engineering and UX engineering lifecycle processes.
In this Book
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Guiding Principles for the UX Practitioner
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What are UX and UX Design?
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The Wheel—UX Processes, Lifecycles, Methods, and Techniques
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Scope, Rigor, Complexity, and Project Perspectives
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Agile Lifecycle Processes and the Funnel Model of Agile UX
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Prelude to the Process Chapters
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Background—Introduction
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Usage Research Data Elicitation
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Usage Research Data Analysis
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Usage Research Data Modeling
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UX Design Requirements—User Stories and Requirements
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Background—Understand Needs
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The Nature of UX Design
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Bottom-Up versus Top-Down Design
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Generative Design—Ideation, Sketching, and Critiquing
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Mental Models and Conceptual Design
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Designing the Ecology and Pervasive Information Architecture
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Designing the Interaction
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Designing for Emotional Impact
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Background—Design
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Prototyping
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UX Evaluation Methods and Techniques
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Empirical UX Evaluation—UX Goals, Metrics, and Targets
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Empirical UX Evaluation—Preparation
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Empirical UX Evaluation—Data Collection Methods and Techniques
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Analytic UX Evaluation—Data Collection Methods and Techniques
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UX Evaluation—Data Analysis
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UX Evaluation—Reporting Results
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Background—UX Evaluation
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Connecting Agile UX with Agile Software Development
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Affordances in UX Design
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The Interaction Cycle
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UX Design Guidelines
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Background—Affordances, the Interaction Cycle, and UX Design Guidelines
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Parting Thoughts
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References
