Enter your mobile number or email address below and we'll send you a link to download the free Kindle App. Then you can start reading Kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required.

  • Apple
  • Android
  • Windows Phone
  • Android

To get the free app, enter your email address or mobile phone number.
Download to your computer
Kindle Cloud Reader

The UX Book: Process and Guidelines for Ensuring a Quality User Experience 1st Edition

by Rex Hartson (Author), Pardha Pyla (Author)
4.1 out of 5 stars 28 customer reviews
ISBN-13: 978-0123852410
ISBN-10: 0123852412
Why is ISBN important?
ISBN
This bar-code number lets you verify that you're getting exactly the right version or edition of a book. The 13-digit and 10-digit formats both work.
Scan an ISBN with your phone
Use the Amazon App to scan ISBNs and compare prices.
Sell yours for a Gift Card
We'll buy it for $32.01
Learn More
Trade in now
Have one to sell? Sell on Amazon

Sorry, there was a problem.

There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. Please try again.

Sorry, there was a problem.

List unavailable.
Facebook Twitter Pinterest <Embed>
Rent On clicking this link, a new layer will be open
$29.35 On clicking this link, a new layer will be open
Buy used On clicking this link, a new layer will be open
$62.20 On clicking this link, a new layer will be open
Buy new On clicking this link, a new layer will be open
$81.75 On clicking this link, a new layer will be open
More Buying Choices
49 New from $40.84 34 Used from $37.84
83 used & new from $37.84
See All Buying Options
Free Two-Day Shipping for College Students with Amazon Student Free%20Two-Day%20Shipping%20for%20College%20Students%20with%20Amazon%20Student

$81.75 FREE Shipping. Only 4 left in stock (more on the way). Ships from and sold by Amazon.com. Gift-wrap available.

Frequently Bought Together

  • The UX Book: Process and Guidelines for Ensuring a Quality User Experience
  • +
  • Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability (3rd Edition) (Voices That Matter)
  • +
  • 100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter)
Total price: $133.64
Buy the selected items together
NO_CONTENT_IN_FEATURE

Product Details

  • Hardcover: 968 pages
  • Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann; 1 edition (March 2, 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0123852412
  • ISBN-13: 978-0123852410
  • Product Dimensions: 7.7 x 1.4 x 9.4 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 3.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (28 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #261,179 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

    •  Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?

Customers Viewing This Page May Be Interested In These Sponsored Links

  (What's this?)

Customer Reviews

Top Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 starsHuman-computer interaction in practice, not theory
By Junius Gunaratne on March 7, 2012
Format: Hardcover Verified Purchase
Few books in the field of human-computer interaction offer such a comprehensive, logical overview of contemporary methods and processes like this one. The authors do an excellent job of distilling HCI techniques into a form that is digestible for newcomers to the field; showing where, when, why, and how requirements gathering, design, prototyping and evaluation should be done.

Whether you're aware of it or not, you are following some sort of process when you design and build a product. This book outlines many of those processes and cycles in clear detail, offering advice as to how you can use such processes to your advantage, and how to improve your current processes. Moreover, the authors describe how to practice HCI in the field with applied techniques ranging from understanding your users' needs to creating paper prototypes and wireframes.

The UX Book also talks about how user experience fits into organizations and how to apply UX design in different organizational contexts. For example, an organization that has a strong software engineering culture will need to approach UX differently from one that has business analysts setting product direction.

Consider this book HCI 101 for students interested in the field or for practitioners who want some formalized background to understand how what they do fits into the larger scope of what UX tries to accomplish. This book does not offer advice on how to become a Photoshop master nor does it offer detail about JavaScript development for high-fidelity prototyping. And unfortunately, because UX is such a broad term, some may mistake this book as a guide for learning about interaction design in detail. Those caveats in mind, this book is second to none if you're interested in learning how to practice HCI methods and how many seemingly abstract academic HCI techniques can work in the real world.
Comment 26 people found this helpful. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Sending feedback...
Thank you for your feedback.
Sorry, we failed to record your vote. Please try again
Report abuse
5.0 out of 5 starsGrab this book!
By Ravi krishnamoorthy on September 10, 2012
Format: Kindle Edition Verified Purchase
In a world where user experience is often regarded as an after-thought or a "nice to have," this book really makes the case for a comprehensive and integrated approach to building interactive systems. If you want to convince someone on your team about the importance of user experience, you will find many talking points in this book. If you yourself want to learn about user experience, and why it is absolutely essential, buy this book.

Much of user experience in practice is at the overlap of psychology, design, and software engineering. A lot of UX books are heavy on the psychology side, and speak to an academic audience. Talking about abstract theories from psychology may not translate well among the software development team. This book helps bridge that gap by talking about UX in a common sense way. The book presents Wheel, a process to "ensure a quality user experience" in a systematic software-engineering-like that developers can relate to and apply.

Try this: When you run into a UX challenge at work, don't pull the book off the shelf... but really think of how YOU would approach that problem. THEN go back and read the book. You will see how much it rings true. You would digest the material and remember it better, that way. If you just read it cover to cover without a real problem to solve in your mind, you might not feel the true impact of the book. You might think "yeah - what's the big deal about a bunch of post-it notes on a wall or sketching dozens of design ideas when only one will be used?" But if you tried approaching the problem yourself first, you'd appreciate the value of the methods suggested in the book.

Actionable, practical, down-to-earth advice for students and practitioners, with some humor too! GRAB THIS BOOK!
Comment 9 people found this helpful. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Sending feedback...
Thank you for your feedback.
Sorry, we failed to record your vote. Please try again
Report abuse
2.0 out of 5 starsWhere is Information Architecture?
By Samantha Bailey on March 22, 2013
Format: Hardcover
I picked this up with a lot of excitement; I teach and mentor in the field and have long been looking for something that could become the seminal textbook as opposed to the assortment of books I currently need to assign or recommend to really cover the bases. At first glance this book looks wonderful--it is obviously written by authors with deep expertise, I love that it is geared to active learning with the inclusion of exercises, it is thoughtfully organized. As I scanned through the table of contents an alarm bell went off in my mind, however--how could a book purporting to be a comprehensive guide to designing effective user experiences (which primarily still means designing effective user interfaces) fail to include information architecture? This strikes me as a really egregious oversight.

Some books on the topic don't use the term "information architecture" but they still delve deeply into organization, navigation, content strategy, and other critical elements that information architecture encompasses. I'm always disappointed when the term "information architecture" isn't used, as I consider it the best and most widely understood term for capturing this unique set of components--but a rose by any other name still smells as sweet, so I can cope without the term as long as the concepts are there. I don't think that is really the case with this text, however. There is a (thin) chapter on mental models that imperfectly and partially covers this territory--and that is about it.

In reality, this book is an extensive usability evaluation techniques book (and from that aspect it appears to be a very good one) that also includes information on user research techniques and a chapter on prototyping.Read more ›
10 Comments 31 people found this helpful. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Sending feedback...
Thank you for your feedback.
Sorry, we failed to record your vote. Please try again
Report abuse

Most Recent Customer Reviews

4.0 out of 5 starsFour Stars

The quality is not bad

Published 4 months ago by Amazon Customer
5.0 out of 5 starsExcellent Resource!!!

Excellent resource! Assisted me in my latest project for composing a new UX framework for their product.

Published 6 months ago by Laura Schertler
2.0 out of 5 starsStrange wording, doesn't really illustrate points in words in ...

Strange wording, doesn't really illustrate points in words in a beneficial way. Ironic, as the usability is low. Read more

Published 7 months ago by Prinny
1.0 out of 5 starsPhysically hard to read, TERRIBLE design!

I bought this book for my UX design class, and from the off, I absolutely hate it. I can't even tell you about the content because the graphic design choices are so horrendous. Read more

Published 7 months ago by Mystere
2.0 out of 5 starsAcademic read -- only useful if you're doing UX in academic research

The unanimous opinion of this book in our graduate UX class of 18 people is that it's painfully ironic that it is a book about UX, considering the book itself is incredibly user... Read more

Published 8 months ago by A. Gordon
4.0 out of 5 starsFour Stars

Good.

Published 10 months ago by Martino Magalhães
5.0 out of 5 starsGood Foundation for UX / UI

This is a good book to get a grasp on UX and UI foundations. It covers a little bit of everything plus has some great advanced information for professionals as well.

Published 11 months ago by Juston Gaughan
5.0 out of 5 starsVery helpful and informative!

I got this book on Sunday. I already finished 46 pages so far. Easy read, and helpful for beginners like me :)

Published 12 months ago by Alice L.
5.0 out of 5 starsbook

really good

Published 14 months ago by catarina
5.0 out of 5 starsEvery page is essential

The market is flooded with UX books and resources, yet this is the one resource I find academically satisfying and filled with useful references to credible case studies. Read more

Published on December 23, 2013 by Van

Set up an Amazon Giveaway

The UX Book: Process and Guidelines for Ensuring a Quality User Experience
Amazon Giveaway allows you to run promotional giveaways in order to create buzz, reward your audience, and attract new followers and customers. Learn more
This item: The UX Book: Process and Guidelines for Ensuring a Quality User Experience
Set up a giveaway

There's a problem loading this menu right now.

Learn more about Amazon Prime.



Pages with Related Products. See and discover other items: user personas, design process ux, user experience graphic design, touch designer