UX for Beginners: A Crash Course in 100 Short Lessons 1st Edition

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Apps! Websites! Rubber Ducks! Naked Ninjas! This book has everything. If you want to get started in user experience design (UX), you've come to the right place: 100 self-contained lessons that cover the whole spectrum of fundamentals.

Forget dry, technical material. This book—based on the wildly popular UX Crash Course from Joel Marsh’s blog The Hipper Element—is laced with the author's snarky brand of humor, and teaches UX in a simple, practical way. Becoming a professional doesn’t have to be boring.

Follow the real-life UX process from start-to-finish and apply the skills as you learn, or refresh your memory before the next meeting. UX for Beginners is perfect for non-designers who want to become designers, managers who teach UX, and programmers, salespeople, or marketers who want to learn more.

Start from scratch: the fundamentals of UX
Research the weird and wonderful things users do
The process and science of making anything user-friendly
Use size, color, and layout to help and influence users
Plan and create wireframes
Make your designs feel engaging and persuasive
Measure how your design works in the real world
Find out what a UX designer does all day

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	UX for Beginners	UX Strategy	UX Research	Mapping Experiences
Further reading from O'Reilly Media Inc.	A Crash Course in 100 Short Lessons	How to Devise Innovative Digital Products that People Want	Practical Techniques for Designing Better Products	A Complete Guide to Creating Value through Journeys, Blueprints, and Diagrams

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Joel Marsh (@HipperElement) has been a professional designer for more than a decade. His work for disruptive startups and famous global brands like Absolute Vodka, Samsung, and McDonald’s, has affected more than half-a-billion people. He can also play drums pretty well, but that’s not very relevant for this book.

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Paperback: 256 pages
Publisher: O'Reilly Media; 1 edition (January 1, 2016)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1491912685
ISBN-13: 978-1491912683
Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 0.4 x 7.4 inches
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Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #55,051 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A very complete checklist for UX design

ByMitchon April 2, 2017

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It is perfect to understand MANY concepts, I am not a designer but in my job I am in charge of front-end development, this book is quite good for someone who wants to hae a bit of an open mind about UX concepts, it will not teach you how to create a perfect user experience, but it will give you a lot of ideas on what you are missing, think of it as the checklist you need to TRY to cover when creating an application.

Remember:There is no such thing as the PERFECT UX, UX is not a recipe, UX is a process of invention and reinvention, This book helped me realize that.

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Great UX book

ByRich D.on August 14, 2016

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Great book! Deliciously irreverent and non-PC. Could have been the mood I was in that day, but I howled at some of the bits in the lessons! Very memorable, and highly recommended!

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It is extremely hard to express what some (e.g. Steve Jobs) intuitively get - and this book does it!!

ByAnicefobon February 28, 2016

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What I like about this book is that it focuses on understanding consumer psychology. It is not about how to design screens or interfaces like many other books are. The book will help you develop the skills through a thinking process instead of helping you learn tools through instruction and examples.

Great UX delivery is a GIANT combination of listening to issues, keen observation of good (so you can incorporate into your own) and bad (so you can avoid/address in yours) design, being able to look at things from a user's perspective (both conscious and subconscious), an investigation into the fundamental causes of underlying problems, a deep understanding of consumer psychology, and a desire to put these together in an elegantly simple package that takes care of problems, expectations, and needs.

Via the 5 main ingredients of UX, the book gets you started on the best foot and goes deeper into designing with user intuition, attention, behavior, interaction, consistency, and persuasion in mind.

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Five Stars

ByBradon February 3, 2017

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I like the book. It arrived in perfect condition too.

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Excellent book is marred by excessive profanity and wittiness

ByWin G.on February 28, 2016

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Marsh has a lot to say about what UX is and how to do it. The organization of the book into cohesive lessons is sound. There's much more value here than the "for beginners" tag in title might lead you to believe, and readers will find much to reference as they build their UX careers.

However, the book suffers from excessive profanity and wittiness that seems entirely at odds with good writing style and the O'Reilly brand. I won't try to reproduce Marsh's running stream of sex and porn jokes here, as they would no doubt be edited out by Amazon - as they should have been by Marsh's O'Reilly editors. As the book would appear to be targeted at students, the profanity makes even less sense. There are several moments that are borderline offensive.

As Marsh's topic is UX, it's baffling that a book with so much great content is brought down several notches by elements that could easily have been removed. In short, like a UX design that could be improved to better serve the user, Marsh's book would be much more readable without all the slang, F bombs and jokes about shopping for sex toys. All this bad language is not needed and does not serve the subject.

I hope O'Reilly in future will reconsider whether it's appropriate in a tech world already saddled with many issues of inclusion and bad behavior to add to the mess by publishing books where authors exhort readers to "suck the big one". Not really what we need.

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Really nice reference and covers the gamut in nice little chunks.

ByatmjVINE VOICEon March 26, 2016

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Having been a UX professional for about 20 years and having read loads of books on the subject, I was prepared for some rote suggestions and some same old same old approaches to UX…. Definitely not so.

The book is fresh and sassy at times, using all the appropriate vernacular and has some pretty level headed and well spelled out basics. Wonderfully even with the playful tone, it’s terse and useful. The only fault I could find was while the book is slated to be a book for developers, UI and graphics designers as well as other types of people on the periphery of UI/UX, sometimes he is addressing the UX professional in a familiar context as if the ropes have been learned. But, that is my only complaint.

I’ve enjoyed this book and I’m sure will reread it. He has a way of gathering info and putting it down in a nice cohesive way. I like that.

Some notable sections that resonated with me were:
Lesson 3: Your perspective. The age old issue of knowing too much, but put in a fresh way.
Lesson 29: Card sorting. A very simple test that we need to remember to use more often.
Lesson 34: The illusion of choice: A few interesting ideas to remember in 4 good principles.
Lesson 38: What is information architecture: Away with the 3 click minimum.
Lesson 43: Users don’t go backward: If they do, you have a problem.
Lesson 50: How experience changes experience: Some really good points.
Lesson 60: Avoid convenient examples: Users do stuff we need to anticipate.
Lesson 82: The Persuasion Formula: All there is, is 8 steps.
Lesson 87: Graph Shapes: Nice section on looking at Analytics graphs subsequent ones are pretty good too.(88-94).

This will be on my desk at work for sure...not just for beginners.

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