A Project Guide to UX: For User Experience Designers in the Field or in the Making, 3rd Edition (Early Release)

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User Experience has now become an expectation instead of a differentiator for the products and services delivered to and by organizations. UX teams are responsible for ensuring that those products and services are useful, usable, and accessible to their users, while also meeting stakeholder goals and missions.

The purpose of this book is to provide enough information to help guide UX professionals and teams through the core aspects of some of the most common aspects of project works, while also pointing them to additional key resources and topic deep dives that exist in the industry. A Project Guide to UX Design, 3rd Edition, will follow in the footsteps of the first two editions as being a commonly and continually referenced text for folks who want to get their start in UX, and for those who need a refresher along their journey.

This book will present a chapter-by-chapter guide through a User Experience process, as well as provide additional information on project objectives and approaches, discovery, workshops and collaboration activities, a variety of mapping methods, design systems and foundations, a deeper dive into product definition, and a modern refresh on wireframes and prototyping. User Experience neophytes and professionals alike should be able to find information relevant to any project, product, or service, in this book.

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