Observing the User Experience: A Practitioner’s Guide to User Research

Author: Goodman Ph.D. School of Information University of California Berkeley Elizabeth

Brand: Morgan Kaufmann

Edition: 2

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• Used Book in Good Condition

Format: Illustrated

Number Of Pages: 608

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The gap between who designers and developers imagine their users are, and who those users really are can be the biggest problem with product development. Observing the User Experience will help you bridge that gap to understand what your users want and need from your product, and whether they’ll be able to use what you’ve created.

Filled with real-world experience and a wealth of practical information, this book presents a complete toolbox of techniques to help designers and developers see through the eyes of their users. It provides in-depth coverage of 13 user experience research techniques that will provide a basis for developing better products, whether they’re Web, software or mobile based. In addition, it’s written with an understanding of product development in the real world, taking tight budgets, short schedules, and existing processes into account.
Since the publication of the first edition, the business of user research has exploded with new technologies and new techniques. This second edition takes those changes into account with extensive revisions to existing topics. It also adds entirely new material on observational research, mobile usability, diary studies, remote research, and cross-cultural and multilingual projects.
Explains how to balance usability with creativity and originality A valuable resource for designers, developers, project managers — anyone whose work affects the end user experience Provides a real-world perspective on research. Helps you do user research cheaply and quickly, and present it persuasively Gives you the tools and confidence to perform user research on your own design, tuning user experience to the unique needs of your product and its users.

Review

“In this second edition, the authors update an important contribution to the emerging discipline of user experience (UX) research…This book is one of many noteworthy titles from Morgan Kaufmann in this subject area. It is chock full of practical examples and advice for both novice and experienced practitioners.” –ComputingReviews.com, January 2013
“Anyone even remotely interested in involving participants and observing their reaction and interaction with the product in order to enhance the overall user acceptance should deeply benefit from this book. I very much liked the practical examples, tables, and diagrams which have given this book a more vibrant feel and allowed the reader to feel like he can use this textbook directly in the practice of establishing some user experience tests. I think the textbook is profoundly informational and was a joy to read.” –Software Engineering News, March 2012
“You’ll like Mike Kuniavsky’s broad selection of practical user research methods–presented clearly and usably. And you’ll like his timing too: while recent books focus on the whys of user experience, many are now ready for the hows. Observing the User Experience does just that: It demonstrates how to discover what is in users’ heads, and suggests how we might balance those considerations with business objectives.” –Lou Rosenfeld, co-author of Information Architecture for the World Wide Web
“Wow! So many of the user experience research methods we have refined and used over the years are now organized and described in detail in one book. It is an essential reference for any practitioner.” –Christian Rohrer, Manager, User Experience Research, Yahoo!
“Observing the User Experience provides the reader with a wealth of information. We now have a guideline that can be used to gain insight into those mysterious figures…our users. Knowing who our users are, what they need, and how they might use the things we build for them is the most important part of any product development cycle. Mike Kuniavsky’s focus in this book is on the user experience as it relates to online interfaces, but ANYONE who builds ANYTHING can gain valuable knowledge from reading this book.” –David Hoffer, Senior User Interface Designer, CTB/McGraw-Hill

Release Date: 21-09-2012

Package Dimensions: 28x234x1338