The ultimate guide to UX from the world's most popular resource for web designers and developers
"Smashing Magazine" is the world's most popular resource for web designers and developers and with this book, the authors provide the pinnacle resource to becoming savvy with User Experience Design (UX). The authors first provide an overview of UX and chart its rise to becoming a valuable and necessary practice for narrowing the gap between Web sites, applications, and users in order to make a user's experience a happy, easy, and successful one.Examines the essential aspects of User Experience Design (UX) and looks at how it has become a vital part of a successful user experienceProvides a solid foundation to implementing UX techniques while not sacrificing the user for the search engineShows you ways to go from good to great user experiences, and points out ways to identify bad user-experience designClarifies how to use the right UX tools
"Smashing UX Design" escorts you through the best techniques for creating a memorable visual design with the ultimate goal being a successful online user experience.