User Experience Re-Mastered
Your Guide to Getting the Right Design

The essential ingredients for creating the ultimate user experience – from the gurus of HCI!

Chauncey Wilson (Author)

9780123751140, Elsevier Science

Paperback / softback, published 21 November 2009

396 pages
23.4 x 19 x 2.5 cm, 0.81 kg

User Experience Re-Mastered: Your Guide to Getting the Right Design provides an understanding of key design and development processes aimed at enhancing the user experience of websites and web applications. The book is organized into four parts. Part 1 deals with the concept of usability, covering user needs analysis and card sorting—a tool for shaping information architecture in websites and software applications. Part 2 focuses on idea generation processes, including brainstorming; sketching; persona development; and the use of prototypes to validate and extract assumptions and requirements that exist among the product team. Part 3 presents core design principles and guidelines for website creation, along with tips and examples on how to apply these principles and guidelines. Part 4 on evaluation and analysis discusses the roles, procedures, and documents needed for an evaluation session; guidelines for planning and conducting a usability test; the analysis and interpretation of data from evaluation sessions; and user interface inspection using heuristic evaluation and other inspection methods.

Part I. Usability1. Usability Engineering, by Jakob Nielsen2. Usability for the Web, by Tom Brinck3. Understanding Your Users, by Cathrine CouragePart II. Generating Ideas4. Handbook of UCD Methods, by Chauncey Wilson5. Sketching User Experiences, by Bill Buxton6. The Persona Lifecycle, by John Pruitt7. Effective Prototyping for Software Makers, by Jonathan Arnowitz

Subject Areas: Human-computer interaction [UYZ], Web programming [UMW]