Comments on: A Project Guide to UX Design: For user experience designers in the field or in the making http://www.rulesofattraction.net/a-project-guide-to-ux-design-for-user-experience-designers-in-the-field-or-in-the-making.html Contemporary Design Reviews, Articles on Graphic, Product, Architectural. Art and Webdesign Sun, 01 May 2011 06:34:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Gabrielle S. Hon http://www.rulesofattraction.net/a-project-guide-to-ux-design-for-user-experience-designers-in-the-field-or-in-the-making.html/comment-page-1#comment-161 Gabrielle S. Hon Sun, 02 May 2010 17:38:00 +0000 http://rulesofattraction.net/a-project-guide-to-ux-design-for-user-experience-designers-in-the-field-or-in-the-making.html#comment-161 Like most of my professional peers, I came into User Experience through a strange and varied path. This allowed me to learn a great deal but randomly and often slowly. What Russ and Carolyn have done with this book is to distill years of hard-earned experience into digestible, friendly lessons. 'A Project Guide to UX Design' arms the up and coming UX practitioner with the right amount of information to begin as well as springboards to deeper territory. <br /> <br />This book, paired with Kim Goodwin's 'Designing for the Digital Age', forms the 100 and 200 (respectively) levels of UX Foundation Education. I am more than a tiny bit envious of newibe UXers who get to benefit from Russ & Carolyn's experience! Rating: 5 / 5 Like most of my professional peers, I came into User Experience through a strange and varied path. This allowed me to learn a great deal but randomly and often slowly. What Russ and Carolyn have done with this book is to distill years of hard-earned experience into digestible, friendly lessons. ‘A Project Guide to UX Design’ arms the up and coming UX practitioner with the right amount of information to begin as well as springboards to deeper territory.

This book, paired with Kim Goodwin’s ‘Designing for the Digital Age’, forms the 100 and 200 (respectively) levels of UX Foundation Education. I am more than a tiny bit envious of newibe UXers who get to benefit from Russ & Carolyn’s experience!
Rating: 5 / 5

]]> By: Ara J. Berberian http://www.rulesofattraction.net/a-project-guide-to-ux-design-for-user-experience-designers-in-the-field-or-in-the-making.html/comment-page-1#comment-160 Ara J. Berberian Sun, 02 May 2010 14:47:21 +0000 http://rulesofattraction.net/a-project-guide-to-ux-design-for-user-experience-designers-in-the-field-or-in-the-making.html#comment-160 This is an excellent real-world primer on UX design that captures all the necessary elements for someone to become a competent UX designer. It strikes the right balance between revealing better design practices with the most effective project management approach which is often omitted in books in the same category. Rating: 5 / 5 This is an excellent real-world primer on UX design that captures all the necessary elements for someone to become a competent UX designer. It strikes the right balance between revealing better design practices with the most effective project management approach which is often omitted in books in the same category.
Rating: 5 / 5

]]> By: Christopher M. Bernard http://www.rulesofattraction.net/a-project-guide-to-ux-design-for-user-experience-designers-in-the-field-or-in-the-making.html/comment-page-1#comment-159 Christopher M. Bernard Sun, 02 May 2010 11:57:40 +0000 http://rulesofattraction.net/a-project-guide-to-ux-design-for-user-experience-designers-in-the-field-or-in-the-making.html#comment-159 If you are a young designer entering or contemplating entering the UX field this is a canonical book. If you are an organization that really needs to start grokking UX this book is also for you. <br /> <br />It's a crisp overview of all the foundational activities that you'll encounter as a UX professional. <br /> <br />If you've been practicing and in the UX field for a few years and want a good gut check to answer the question, "Am I doing this right" this is the book for you too. I don't think it will teach experienced professionals anything they don't already know but then again I don't think that was the goal of the book. <br /> <br />UX Design is really focused on how the work of UX designer gets done day to day and its focus on topics that some UX folks ignore, but are critical, like SEO and contract creation are refreshing. The best analogy I can think of regarding this book is that it reminds me of the excellent professional practice guides that the AIGA used to put out years ago. <br /> <br />There's a natural Web focus in this book but folks that are in the UX discipline in any realm should find it useful and perhaps essential reading. Rating: 5 / 5 If you are a young designer entering or contemplating entering the UX field this is a canonical book. If you are an organization that really needs to start grokking UX this book is also for you.

It’s a crisp overview of all the foundational activities that you’ll encounter as a UX professional.

If you’ve been practicing and in the UX field for a few years and want a good gut check to answer the question, “Am I doing this right” this is the book for you too. I don’t think it will teach experienced professionals anything they don’t already know but then again I don’t think that was the goal of the book.

UX Design is really focused on how the work of UX designer gets done day to day and its focus on topics that some UX folks ignore, but are critical, like SEO and contract creation are refreshing. The best analogy I can think of regarding this book is that it reminds me of the excellent professional practice guides that the AIGA used to put out years ago.

There’s a natural Web focus in this book but folks that are in the UX discipline in any realm should find it useful and perhaps essential reading.
Rating: 5 / 5

]]> By: John McSwain http://www.rulesofattraction.net/a-project-guide-to-ux-design-for-user-experience-designers-in-the-field-or-in-the-making.html/comment-page-1#comment-158 John McSwain Sun, 02 May 2010 09:29:57 +0000 http://rulesofattraction.net/a-project-guide-to-ux-design-for-user-experience-designers-in-the-field-or-in-the-making.html#comment-158 A Project Guide to UX Design is a book that defines the micro and macroscopic views of user experience design and its role in the project life cycle. Russ and Carolyn do a great job of reiterating what the core of user experience design is as well as identifying the different roles that utilize it. The book covers a lot of ground and takes a transcendental approach of showing the underlying purpose for each role in order to promote a synthetic comprehension of user experience design as opposed to shallow memorization. <br /> <br />The main target audience of the book are Information Architects, Interaction Designers, User Researchers, and other project stakeholders (Business Analysts, Content Strategists, Copywriters, Visual Designers, and Front-end Developers). <br /> <br />To make the contents more inviting, I've created an enclosing outline to provide abstract classifications for several groups of chapters. Each number represents the number of pages in each chapter: <br /> <br />+ Introduction <br /> - Chapter 1: The Tao of UXD (8) <br /> - Chapter 2: The Project Ecosystem (29) <br /> <br />+ Business Perspective <br /> - Chapter 3: Proposals for Consultants and Freelancers (15) <br /> - Chapter 4: Project Objectives and Approach (10) <br /> - Chapter 5: Business Requirements (15) <br /> <br />+ Research <br /> - Chapter 6: User Research (26) <br /> - Chapter 7: Personas (13) <br /> - Chapter 8: User Experience Design and SEO (17) <br /> <br />+ Information Architecture / Interaction Design <br /> - Chapter 9: Transition from Defining to Designing (18) <br /> - Chapter 10: Site Maps and Task Flows (17) <br /> - Chapter 11: Wireframes and Annotations (17) <br /> - Chapter 12: Prototyping (15) <br /> - Chapter 13: Design testing with Users (25) <br /> - Chapter 14: Transition: From Design to Development and Beyond (10) <br /> <br />The book also contains frequent references to books, online resources, and user experience groups and authors throughout as opposed to an Appendix or a 'For further reading' section nested in the back. This helps to drive home the thoughts as you read them, rather than 'when you are finished'. <br /> <br />As an aspiring user experience professional, I do believe that this book is worth owning, reading, and referencing as a compass to create effective user experience in any project setting. Rating: 5 / 5 A Project Guide to UX Design is a book that defines the micro and macroscopic views of user experience design and its role in the project life cycle. Russ and Carolyn do a great job of reiterating what the core of user experience design is as well as identifying the different roles that utilize it. The book covers a lot of ground and takes a transcendental approach of showing the underlying purpose for each role in order to promote a synthetic comprehension of user experience design as opposed to shallow memorization.

The main target audience of the book are Information Architects, Interaction Designers, User Researchers, and other project stakeholders (Business Analysts, Content Strategists, Copywriters, Visual Designers, and Front-end Developers).

To make the contents more inviting, I’ve created an enclosing outline to provide abstract classifications for several groups of chapters. Each number represents the number of pages in each chapter:

+ Introduction

– Chapter 1: The Tao of UXD (8)

– Chapter 2: The Project Ecosystem (29)

+ Business Perspective

– Chapter 3: Proposals for Consultants and Freelancers (15)

– Chapter 4: Project Objectives and Approach (10)

– Chapter 5: Business Requirements (15)

+ Research

– Chapter 6: User Research (26)

– Chapter 7: Personas (13)

– Chapter 8: User Experience Design and SEO (17)

+ Information Architecture / Interaction Design

– Chapter 9: Transition from Defining to Designing (18)

– Chapter 10: Site Maps and Task Flows (17)

– Chapter 11: Wireframes and Annotations (17)

– Chapter 12: Prototyping (15)

– Chapter 13: Design testing with Users (25)

– Chapter 14: Transition: From Design to Development and Beyond (10)

The book also contains frequent references to books, online resources, and user experience groups and authors throughout as opposed to an Appendix or a ‘For further reading’ section nested in the back. This helps to drive home the thoughts as you read them, rather than ‘when you are finished’.

As an aspiring user experience professional, I do believe that this book is worth owning, reading, and referencing as a compass to create effective user experience in any project setting.
Rating: 5 / 5

]]> By: Joe Sokohl http://www.rulesofattraction.net/a-project-guide-to-ux-design-for-user-experience-designers-in-the-field-or-in-the-making.html/comment-page-1#comment-157 Joe Sokohl Sun, 02 May 2010 09:05:31 +0000 http://rulesofattraction.net/a-project-guide-to-ux-design-for-user-experience-designers-in-the-field-or-in-the-making.html#comment-157 <a href="http://www.amazon.com/review/R1R9PEH8D1YQMA">Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R1R9PEH8D1YQMA</a> A great overview of user experience project approaches. This book provides insight as well as practicalities to both novice and experienced UX project team members. Rating: 5 / 5 Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R1R9PEH8D1YQMA A great overview of user experience project approaches. This book provides insight as well as practicalities to both novice and experienced UX project team members.
Rating: 5 / 5

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