The UX Book: Agile UX Design for a Quality User Experience - Softcover

Hartson, Rex; Pyla, Pardha S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0128053429 ISBN 13: 9780128053423

Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann, 2018

Synopsis

The UX Book: Designing a Quality User Experience, Second Edition, excels with its comprehensive exploration of designing interaction that ensures a quality user experience. Combining breadth, depth and practical applications, this book takes a time-tested process-and-guidelines approach that not only provides readers with actionable methods and techniques, but also helps them retain a firm grounding in human-computer interaction (HCI) concepts and theory. The authors guide users through the UX lifecycle process, including contextual inquiry and analysis, requirements extraction, design ideation and creation, practical design production, prototyping, and UX evaluation.

Throughout this updated edition, the authors provide an increased emphasis on design, along with new chapters on Information Architecture. Students and practitioners alike will learn how to create and refine interaction designs that ensure a quality user experience.

• A comprehensive textbook for UX/HCI/Interaction Design students readymade for the classroom, complete with instructors manual, dedicated web site, sample syllabus, examples, exercises, lecture slides
• Features HCI theory, process, practice, and a host of real world stories and contributions from industry luminaries to prepare students for working in the field
• The only HCI textbook to cover agile methodology, design approaches, and a full, modern suite of classroom material (stemming from tried and tested classroom use by the authors)

About this title

About the Author

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0128053429
• ISBN 13: 9780128053423
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 916