STSanchez 's List: Books: UX/Interaction Design

* Understand the various roles in UX design, identify stakeholders, and enlist their support\n* Obtain consensus from your team on project objectives\n* Define the scope of your project and avoid mission creep\n* Conduct user research and document your findings\n* Understand and communicate user behavior with personas\n* Design and prototype your application or site\n* Make your product findable with search engine optimization\n* Plan for development, product rollout, and ongoing quality assurance

Designing successful products and services in the digital age requires a multi-disciplinary team with expertise in interaction design, visual design, industrial design, and other disciplines. It also takes the ability to come up with the big ideas that make a desirable product or service, as well as the skill and perseverance to execute on the thousand small ideas that get your design into the hands of users. It requires expertise in project management, user research, and consensus-building. This comprehensive, full-color volume addresses all of these and more with detailed how-to information, real-life examples, and exercises. Topics include assembling a design team, planning and conducting user research, analyzing your data and turning it into personas, using scenarios to drive requirements definition and design, collaborating in design meetings, evaluating and iterating your design, and documenting finished design in a way that works for engineers and stakeholders alike.

The Elements of User Experience cuts through the complexity of user-centered design for the Web with clear explanations and vivid illustrations that focus on ideas rather than tools or techniques. Jesse James Garrett gives readers the big picture of Web user experience development, from strategy and requirements to information architecture and visual design. This accessible introduction helps any Web development team, large or small, to create a successful user experience.