A Project Guide to UX Design: For user experience designers in the field or in the making

“If you are a young designer entering or contemplating entering the UX field this is a canonical book. If you are an organization that really needs to start grokking UX this book is also for you. "  -- Chris Bernard, User Experience Evangelist, MicrosoftbrbrUser experience design is the discipline of creating a useful and usable Web site or application—one that’s easily navigated and meets the needs of both the site owner and its users. But there’s a lot more to successful UX design than knowing the latest Web technologies or design trends: It takes diplomacy, project management skills, and business savvy. That’s where this book comes in. Authors Russ Unger and Carolyn Chandler show you how to integrate UX principles into your project from start to finish.brbr• Understand the various roles in UX design, identify stakeholders, and enlist their supportbr• Obtain consensus from your team on project objectivesbr• Define the scope of your project and avoid mission creepbr• Conduct user research and document your findingsbr• Understand and communicate user behavior with personasbr• Design and prototype your application or sitebr• Make your product findable with search engine optimizationbr• Plan for development, product rollout, and ongoing quality assurance