User Experience

It’s getting better and better but, still, how many times have you had to justify why user experience matters and what it actually means? To be prepared, as part of your UX toolbox, you should have a...

Designed with flexibility and readers' needs in mind, this purpose driven book offers new UX practitioners succinct and complete intructions on how to conduct user research and rapidly design interfaces and products in the classroom or the office. Designed with flexibility and readers' needs in mind, this purpose driven book offers new UX practitioners succinct and complete intructions on how to conduct user research and rapidly design interfaces and products in the classroom or the office…

Accurately decoding user research learnings into effective product design decisions can be challenging. Read about prioritizing personas, mapping user journeys and other practical techniques that will help you achieve an engaging user experience.

A Sweet Spot UX designer knows how to balance the needs of users with the business goals of an organisation. This is the key to providing real value to any product or service. The hardest part of being a User Experience Designer isn't learning the methodology or the process, it's taking the business you work for on the journey to fully realise the value that it brings. Evangelizing your UX process as well as doing the day-to-day work can sometimes seem like an insurmountable challenge. This…

This book focuses on emerging issues in usability, interface design, human-computer interaction, user experience and assistive technology. It highlights research aimed at understanding human interaction with products, services and systems, and focuses on finding effective approaches for improving user experience. It also discusses key issues in designing and providing assistive devices and services to individuals with disabilities or impairment, to assist mobility, communication…

Quantifying the User Experience: Practical Statistics for User Research, Second Edition, provides practitioners and researchers with the information they need to confidently quantify, qualify, and justify their data. The book presents a practical guide on how to use statistics to solve common quantitative problems that arise in user research. It addresses questions users face every day, including, Is the current product more usable than our competition? Can we be sure at least 70% of users…

"This book offers innovative design solutions for mobile human-computer interfaces, addressing both challenges and opportunities in the field to pragmatically improve the accessibility of mobile technologies"-- Mobile devices allow users to remain connected with each other anytime and anywhere, but flaws and limitations in the design of mobile interfaces have often constituted frustrating obstacles to usability. Research and Design Innovations for Mobile User Experience offers innovative…

Das Angebot an kostenfreien Webmail-Diensten in Deutschland ist vielfltig. Oft scheint deren Bedienung jedoch nicht intuitiv genug oder die Zusatzangebote werden als strend und somit "spamindernd" empfunden. In der vorliegenden Arbeit wurde die User Experience der Dienste von web.de, gmx.de und gmail.com untersucht. Gesttzt durch den "Leitfaden Usability" der deutschen Akkreditierungsstelle GmbH wurde der Prozess des Usability Engineering in seinen Phasen auf die ausgewhlte Software…

The humble washing machine has been somewhat neglected over the past decade; whilst the technology inside has developed considerably, the form hasn’t progressed at quite the same pace, which is unfortunately the same story for the user-experience! This is the issue that the Flexbar washing machine challenges, as it features a revolutionary informative screen that

This book provides an introduction and overview of the rapidly evolving topic of game user experience, presenting the new perspectives employed by researchers and the industry, and highlighting the recent empirical findings that illustrate the nature of it. The first section deals with cognition and player psychology, the second section includes new research on modeling and measuring player experience, the third section focuses on the impact of game user experience on game design processes…