The UX Book

Zusammenfassung 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.

Autorentext

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.

Klappentext

Focuses on designing interaction to ensure a quality user experience. This book guide you through the UX lifecycle process, including contextual inquiry and analysis, requirements extraction, design ideation and creation, practical design production, prototyping, and UX evaluation.

Zusammenfassung
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.

Inhalt

Chapter 1: IntroductionPart I: ProcessChapter 2: The Wheel: A Lifecycle TemplateChapter 3: Contextual Inquiry: Eliciting Work Activity DataChapter 4: Contextual Analysis: Consolidating and Interpreting Work Activity DataChapter 5: Extracting Interaction Design RequirementsChapter 6: Constructing Design-Informing ModelsChapter 7: Design Thinking, Ideation and SketchingChapter 8: Mental Models and Conceptual DesignChapter 9: Design ProductionChapter 10: UX Goals, Metrics and TargetsChapter 11: PrototypingChapter 12: UX Evaulation IntroductionChapter 13: Rapid Evaluation MethodsChapter 14: Rigorous Empirical Evaluation: PreparationChapter 15: Rigorous Empirical Evaluation: Running the SessionChapter 16: Rigorous Empirical Evaluation: AnalysisChapter 17: Evaluation ReportingChapter 18: Wrapping up Rigorous UX EvaluationChapter 19: UX Methods for Agile DevelopmentPart II: Design Infrastructure GuidelinesChapter 20: Affordances DemystifiedChapter 21: The Interaction Cycle and the User Action FrameworkChapter 22: UX Design GuidelinesPart III: Advanced TopicsChapter 23: Connections with Software EngineeringChapter 24: Making it Work in the Real WorldReferencesExercisesIndex