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The UX Book : process and guidelines for ensuring a quality user experience /

By: Hartson, H. Rex.
Contributor(s): Pyla, Pardha S.
Publisher: Waltham, MA ; Amsterdam : Morgan Kaufmann/Elsevier, 2012Description: xxxiv, 937 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm.Content type: text | text | still image Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 9780123852410; 9780123852410:; 0123852412.Subject(s): User interfaces (Computer systems) | User interfaces (Computer systems) -- Design | Human-computer interactionDDC classification: 005.437 HAR
Contents:
Introduction -- The wheel: a lifecycle template -- Contextual inquiry: eliciting work activity data -- Contextual analysis: consolidating and interpreting work activity data -- Extracting interaction design requirements -- Constructing design-informing models -- Design thinking, ideation, and sketching -- Mental models and conceptual design -- Design production -- UX goals, metrics, and targets -- Prototyping -- UX evaluation introduction -- Rapid evaluation methods -- Rigorous empirical evaluation; preparation -- Rigorous empirical evaluation; running the session -- Rigorous empirical evaluation: analysis -- Evaluation reporting -- Wrapping up evaluation UX -- UX methods for agile development -- Affordances demystified -- The interaction cycle and the user action framework -- UX design guidelines -- Connections with software engineering -- Making it work in the real world.
Summary: This is a comprehensive textbook on designing interaction to ensure a quality user experience. Combining breadth, depth, and practical applications, it takes a time-tested process and guidelines approach that provides readers with actionable methods and techniques while retaining a firm grounding in HCI concepts and theory.
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Standard Loan Standard Loan ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection 005.437 HAR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 0062455
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- The wheel: a lifecycle template -- Contextual inquiry: eliciting work activity data -- Contextual analysis: consolidating and interpreting work activity data -- Extracting interaction design requirements -- Constructing design-informing models -- Design thinking, ideation, and sketching -- Mental models and conceptual design -- Design production -- UX goals, metrics, and targets -- Prototyping -- UX evaluation introduction -- Rapid evaluation methods -- Rigorous empirical evaluation; preparation -- Rigorous empirical evaluation; running the session -- Rigorous empirical evaluation: analysis -- Evaluation reporting -- Wrapping up evaluation UX -- UX methods for agile development -- Affordances demystified -- The interaction cycle and the user action framework -- UX design guidelines -- Connections with software engineering -- Making it work in the real world.

This is a comprehensive textbook on designing interaction to ensure a quality user experience. Combining breadth, depth, and practical applications, it takes a time-tested process and guidelines approach that provides readers with actionable methods and techniques while retaining a firm grounding in HCI concepts and theory.

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