Russ Unger

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

Josh Clement

Too simplistic, tries to cover everything and has already start to date. Ux is a difficult field to condense into one book, it's too new. As a designer I think you're better off getting feedback about your own process, and supplementing with articles, discussions, meet ups or shorter more specialised books. Maybe this book would be better if you're completely new to the field.

User experience design is the discipline of creating a useful and usable Web site or application that’s easily navigated and meets the needs of the site owner and its users. There’s a lot more to successful UX design than knowing the latest Web technologies or design trends: It takes diplomacy, management skills, and business savvy. That’s where the updated edition of this important book comes in. With new information on design principles, mobile and gestural interactions, content strategy, remote research tools and more, you’ll learn to: Recognize the various roles in UX design, identify stakeholders, and enlist their support Obtain consensus from your team on project objectives Understand approaches such as Waterfall, Agile, and Lean UX Define the scope of your project and avoid mission creep Conduct user research in person or remotely, and document your findings Understand and communicate user behavior with personas Design and prototype your application or site Plan for development, product rollout, and ongoing quality assurance

For user experience designers in the field or in the making

Peter Polgar

I'd call this book "Real-life UX in projects for absolute beginners". It provides a good overview on practicalities on how to do UX in any project - however most of the examples or just the way of thinking refers to web projects. Kindof missing the whole lean / product revolution. Still seems useful when you are just starting on the field and have absolutely no idea on basics like wireframes or usability testing.

What really made me think while reading this book, is the big generations of ux design - this is generation 2 (generation web?) the one after the dot-com bust and before the rise of lean, startups and product design. People realized information architecture is very important, but were still not referring to it as "design" or "ux as value", as they did after the rise of iphone and product thinking.

A Project Guide to UX Design For User Experience Designers in the Field Or in the Making