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Undercover User Experience: Learn How to Do Great UX Work with Tiny Budgets, No Time, and Limited Support by Cennydd Bowles — book cover

Undercover User Experience: Learn How to Do Great UX Work with Tiny Budgets, No Time, and Limited Support

by Cennydd Bowles
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Overview

Once You Catch The User Experience Bug, the world changes. Doors open the wrong way, websites don't work, and companies don't seem to care. And while anyone can learn the UX remedies-usability testing, personas, prototyping and so on-unless your organization "gets it," putting them into practice is trickier.

Undercover User Experience is a pragmatic guide from the front lines, giving frank advice on making UX work in real companies with real problems. Readers will learn how to fit research, idea generation, prototyping and testing into their daily workflow, and how to design good user experiences under the all-too-common constraints of time, budget and culture.

A ruthlessly practical look at how to do great user experience design with a tiny budget and no time

Filled with real-world knowledge that the authors have learned the hard way

Focused on immediate results, with clear advice on how to handle difficult design situations and ways to sell user experience concepts within your company

Synopsis

Once You Catch The User Experience Bug, the world changes. Doors open the wrong way, websites don't work, and companies don't seem to care. And while anyone can learn the UX remedies---usability testing, personas, prototyping and so on---unless your organization "gets it," putting them into practice is trickier.

Undercover User Experience is a pragmatic guide from the front lines, giving frank advice on making UX work in real companies with real problems. Readers will learn how to fit research, idea generation, prototyping and testing into their daily workflow, and how to design good user experiences under the all-too-common constraints of time, budget and culture.

"A wonderful, proctical, yet subversive book. Cennydd and James teach you the subtle art of fighting for---and then designing for---users in a hostile world."---Joshua Porter, co-founder Performable and co-creator of 52 weeksofUX. com

About the Author, Cennydd Bowles

Cennydd Bowles leapt into the world of user experience eight years ago and hasn't shut up about it since. He now works for Clearleft in Brighton, England and moonlights as a UX blogger, mentor and community evangelist. Cennydd is a regular public speaker (SXSW, IA Summit), a widely published writer (A List Apart, Johnny Holland, .net magazine) and co-conspirator of the UX London conference.

A self-confessed ‘user experience professional’, James Box works for Clearleft in the seaside town of Brighton, England. Part information architect and part interaction designer, when he’s not building sandcastles on the beach, James crafts websites that are fun and easy to use. On those few occasions he's not actually designing, you'll probably find him writing or talking about the subject. Either that or reminiscing about how all these social networks used to be fields.

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Book Details

Published
September 17, 2010
Publisher
New Riders
Pages
183
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780321719904

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