A Project Guide To UX Design: For User Experience Designers In The Field Or In The Making (2009) - Plot & Excerpts
I was not impressed by this book. At it's best, it provides useful advice on how to manage the non-UX work of being a UX Professional. At it's worst, it gets lost in vague suggestions that seem to be more about surviving office politics as a freelancer, rather than how to be awesome at UX Design or being an awesome design professional. At a minimum, the fact that the cover design calls out the words "UX" and "Design" is a poor User Experience, in that it presents the book as being about UX Design. It is not. This book is about the business of UX Design. If that's what you're looking for, you'll likely find some value. I was looking for a book about the discipline of doing UX Design. This is a pretty good introduction to the usability process and methods, but if you're a "user experience designer in the field", you probably won't get much out of it. So for the "UX designers in the making", this gives enough of an overview of the methods to know when and why you would use a particular method. It also includes enough of the "how" that you could get by on a smaller project (or a larger project with a mentor). But if you need to be a self-taught UX designer, you'll need to find a resource that goes into more detail. Luckily, the authors call out external references for when you want to learn more.In summary, if you look through the table of contents and you see topics that are unfamiliar (or that you've heard of but don't know the basic what, why, and how), then this book is a good way to fill in those gaps. But if everything looks pretty familiar, don't expect to get much.One last caveat: this book is pretty web-centric. A lot of the methods still apply to other user interfaces, but the examples and wording of this book are all websites.
What do You think about A Project Guide To UX Design: For User Experience Designers In The Field Or In The Making (2009)?
As a new student in a field partly overlapping with UX design, this book was really very helpful.
—Pralok
Boring. A required text for our Information Architecture class. Very dry read.
—lenawu1718
Guia de referência com dicas sobre documentação e processos básicos.
—faye
Great overview, from a novice to intermediate level Design thinker.
—Arsene
Good and Informative Read - Well worth reading
—amber
