Russ Unger

for user experience designers in the field or in the making

A project guide to UX design

Chris Avore

Liftoff! is your guide to leveling up as a design manager and leader. Its experience–driven approach—written by designers for designers—will help you hire and scale teams, develop careers, learn why diversity matters to your business, and solidify design's role in your organization. Liftoff! will elevate your skills to lead your team and company to new heights.

Practical Design Leadership to Elevate Your Team, Your Organization, and You

Liftoff!

Carolyn Chandler

Describes UX design methods, covering such topics as creating a proposal, user research, personas, search engine optimization, site maps, wireframes, prototyping, and design testing.

For User Experience Designers in the Field Or in the Making

A Project Guide to UX Design

Liftoff! is your guide to leveling up as a design manager and leader. Its experience-driven approach--written by designers for designers--will help you hire and scale teams, develop careers, learn why diversity matters to your business, and solidify design's role in your organization. Liftoff! will elevate your skills to lead your team and company to new heights.

Brad Nunnally

Dan Willis

A clear and practical guide to facilitation and collaborative activity for user experience designers and business professionals. * *Provides value for user experience practitioners at any point in their careers, particularly those beginning to explore new areas of facilitation. *Includes samples and jump-starts to aid professionals in planning and preparing for a variety of facilitation activities. *Offers wisdom relevant outside of facilitation that can guide anyone preparing any collaborative activity. While user experience design is a topic of exploding popularity, facilitation is a skill that is largely missing from books in the field. This book is for people who are interested in learning more about facilitation; they've seen the various types of activities that they are told that they can perform, and they are looking for an approach that takes them to the next step. By removing a lot of guesswork from the process of interviewing stakeholders, users, and/or teammates, the book aims to enable designers to fully engage a group of peers, clients, and even strangers, moving individuals and teams toward solutions by focusing on their strengths and expertise. This book provides a chapter-by-chapter guide through common facilitation activities, providing clear and concise approaches to each.

Techniques for Successful Facilitation

Designing the Conversation

Guerrilla UX Research Methods

Samantha Starmer

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A Self-paced Workshop for Planning, Pitching, Preparing, and Presenting at Conferences

Speaker Camp

USER EXPERIENCE DESIGN is the multifaceted discipline of shaping digital products and systems into tools that are both useful and usable. Success as a UX designer extends beyond just knowledge of the latest technologies; it also involves diplomacy, management insight, and a solid grasp of business dynamics. In this updated guide, you'll learn to: Understand various roles in UX design, identify stakeholders, and increase collaboration across teams Define your project's purpose and scope collaboratively, from high-level objectives to fine details Identify the differences between methodologies such as waterfall, agile, and lean UX Delve into qualitative and quantitative user research, and use the data you gather to inform your design decisions Design and prototype applications and systems that prioritize user needs The third edition offers new insights on the Operations (Ops) functions within UX practices, discovery in UX, and collaboration activities for designers and stakeholders. You'll find new information on the many remote methods that can be used to gain important insights about users and on frameworks that help you define the products to create. This guide is a vital resource for anyone looking to stay at the forefront of the ever-changing field of UX design.

For User Experience Designers in the Field or in the Making

Conferences abound in most industries, and being a speaker at them can be valuable for anyone's career advancement. This video is about how to market yourself if you want to speak at these events, rather than just sit in the audience. It contains a wealth of tips from two seasoned presenters, from understanding your audience, to finding unique ideas, creating an abstract, crafting a biography, choosing a title, understanding the three parts of a conference proposal, and organizing and structuring content. Speaker Camp Workshop brings alive visual and dynamic examples reinforcing the coverage in the book. Viewers will be able to see what works in real presentations, how to handle practice sessions, manage different types of audiences, the mechanics of presenting material on a stage, and how to control questions and answers — whether friendly or hostile. And it doesn't stop there: it goes on to make suggestions for evaluating and improving your presentation for the next time, incorporating what you've learned from feedback, whether live or through social media. System Requirements Mac OS X 10.6, Microsoft Windows XP, or higher GHz processor or higher 2 GB RAM or higher 1 GB Free HD Space (does not include lesson files) Please note that this DVD can be viewed only on a computer. It will not work in DVD-Video player software or a DVD set-top player.

Learn by Video

Speaker Camp Workshop

Are you interested in getting out of the audience observing and onto the stage sharing your thoughts, ideas, and experience with the world? If so, Speaker Camp is for you! Russ Unger and Samantha Starmer are seasoned and popular presenters at venues such as South by Southwest, and numerous other events around the world. Their insights and expertise will guide you through the steps you need to take to be in the limelight too. Using a clear and concise workshop-like approach, you’ll learn to: brainstorm ideas, create an abstract, craft a biography, organize and structure content, practice your presentation, prepare to present to an audience What’s more, Speaker Camp covers the mechanics of presenting material onstage, managing an audience, and how to approach making updates and revisions to presentations after you’ve given them. You’ve got a lot to say, and people deserve to hear it!

Russ Unger

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