Successful User Experience: Strategies and Roadmaps second edition

Successful User Experience: Strategy and Roadmaps, Second  Edition provides a hands-on guide for pulling all of the User Experience  (UX) pieces together to create a strategy that includes tactics, tools,  and methodologies. Leveraging material honed in user experience courses  and over 35 years in the field, the author explains the value of  strategic models to refine goals against available data and resources.  You will learn how to think about UX from a high level, design the UX  while setting goals for a product or project, and how to turn that into  concrete actionable steps.

This book demonstrates how to  translate high-level planning into concrete, actionable steps. It  explains the connection between Design Thinking and creating a great  user experience, and guides the reader in setting effective UX goals for  their product or project  You’ll learn how to choose the right tools  and methodologies at each stage of the product lifecycle. Starting with  UX acceptance as a foundation, the book builds on this with practical  steps and real-world case studies, helping you develop a comprehensive  strategy-from the big picture of product design, development, and  commercialization, to leveraging UX for stronger, more successful  products.

Published in 2015 the first edition was used as a textbook for 10 years and became a foundational work for the user experience, usability and HCI field.

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