The Elements of User Experience: User-Centered Design for the Web and Beyond (2nd Edition) (Voices That Matter) 2nd Edition

Its a great read for refreshing how you might do things and some of the why as well.

Having worked in this industry for many years, I was pleasantly surprised to come across such a clear primer. Although this book borders on conceptual, it covers enough practical details to make it an invaluable resource for those new to the trade, or anyone looking to improve their process with industry best practices. This is a book I will now highly recommend to anyone new to our organization. It also provided me with a great set of tools to help explain the process to others (including clients). If you are an expert looking for specific details and/or a cookbook style approach, you probably want to look elsewhere -- for everyone else, it's worth picking up.

No matter your perceived technical or visual skill level as a web designer, this book will open your mind to the importance of proper user-centered design and experience. Case studies, diagrams, examples, and more. This book is a great first reader if you want to build web applications that are actually successful.

JJG's elements of User Experience is an awesome book for the beginning UX designer. I never went to school for UX but after reading Steve Krug's Don't Make Me Think and JJG's Elements, I felt as though a lot of the design decisions I was already making were justified. JJG's visuals are well known within the industry and I have copies of them downloaded from his site and posted to the wall of my cube as reminders when I jump into any new project.

Directness of insight and exemplary logical organization of substantive content, all within a brief, compact volume makes this a book of many virtues. In my considered and informed opinion this is the absolute standard text (or 'bible' if you will) for understanding what user experience design is all about. My main go-to book for how to proceed and how to frame and approach the problems whenever tackling a new user experience project.

When I opened the package, I saw this very nicely printed book with astonishing graphic layout and content structure (of course, because it's done by a master of user experience design – this book testifies just that). I love reading this book! It is visually enticing and masterful content-wise. Even though I'm an industrial design student, I find the content highly relevant in my user-centered design and thinking process.

Great read. Gets you thinking through web design and UX design in general as a multi-leveled process, rather than just jumping head on. I do a lot of different types of design, and this book has helped to improve my thinking to be more organized and strategic about how I go about the various steps of the design and planning process.

I think that the this is a good book, but it kinda falls short ehen it comes to concrete examples of planning interaction.As far as I understood, the author suggest using the framework described in the book for managing software solutions as a whole. The framework itself is not bad, but the scope, strategy and stru ture planes kinda try to steal away the glory from the good old fashioned software requirement specification document.