{"id":345,"date":"2010-06-14T22:28:44","date_gmt":"2010-06-14T09:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thunderguy.com\/semicolon\/?p=345"},"modified":"2010-06-14T22:28:44","modified_gmt":"2010-06-14T09:28:44","slug":"a-project-guide-to-ux-design-russ-unger-carolyn-chandler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/semicolon\/2010\/06\/14\/a-project-guide-to-ux-design-russ-unger-carolyn-chandler\/","title":{"rendered":"A Project Guide to UX Design &#8212; Russ Unger &#038; Carolyn Chandler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0321607376?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=thunderguycom-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=0321607376\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thunderguy.com\/semicolon\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/a-project-guide-to-ux-design.jpg\" alt=\"A Project Guide to UX Design\" title=\"A Project Guide to UX Design\" width=\"124\" height=\"160\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-371\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=thunderguycom-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=0321607376\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/>This is an overview of the entire world of user experience (UX) design from the point of view of a dedicated UX practitioner. It covers the UX side of project management, client interaction, design, development, and testing. Despite the broad coverage, its focus on the practitioner means it goes into a bit more depth than many such books.<\/p>\n<p>The book includes good discussions of personas, user-centered design, user testing, wireframes, prototyping and more. <!--more-->There&#8217;s also a strange chapter on search engine optimisation (SEO). Why? SEO has nothing to do with the user experience, even though there are certain techniques that enhance both (such as descriptive link titles). The chapter feels as if it has been bolted on, probably because it has: it&#8217;s the only chapter in the book not written by the authors. From a UX point of view, you only need to read one line from the summary: &#8220;Thoughtful search engine optimisation starts with quality UX.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For its size, I can&#8217;t imagine a more thorough summary of UX practice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an overview of the entire world of user experience (UX) design from the point of view of a dedicated UX practitioner. It covers the UX side of project management, client interaction, design, development, and testing. Despite the broad coverage, its focus on the practitioner means it goes into a bit more depth than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[30,14,84],"class_list":["post-345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-books","tag-projects","tag-usability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/semicolon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/semicolon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/semicolon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/semicolon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/semicolon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/semicolon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":373,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/semicolon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions\/373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/semicolon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/semicolon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/semicolon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}