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Fixing Bad UX Designs

You're reading from Fixing Bad UX Designs Master proven approaches, tools, and techniques to make your user experience great again

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2018

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781787120556

Length 348 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Concepts

User Experience

Author (1):

Maioli

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Title Page

Dedication

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Foreword

Contributors

Preface

1. Understanding UX and its Importance FREE CHAPTER

2. Identifying UX Issues – UX Methodologies

3. Exploring Potential UX Solutions

4. Increasing Conversion with UX

5. Using UI and Content for Better Communication

6. Considering Accessibility As Part of the UX

7. Improving Physical Experiences

8. Improving IA for Better Navigation

9. Prototyping and Validating UX Solutions

10. Implementing UX Solutions

11. Measuring UX Solutions

12. Keeping Up to Date

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Index

Chapter 12. Keeping Up to Date

Working with UX requires you to keep yourselves constantly updated, find and try new tools, discuss with other professionals, and so on. In this appendix, you will find a few links to great references, sources, and discussion groups to help you in this mission.

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Authors (1)

Maioli

Maioli

Lisandra Maioli is an Italian-Brazilian journalist with certification in UX (General Assembly LA), post-graduate Diploma in Marketing (UC Berkeley), in Digital Marketing (UCLA), in Interactive Digital Medias (Senac SP), and in Digital-Cultural Journalism (PUC SP). Passionate about UX, she has about 2 decades of international and multidisciplinary experience in Digital Communications in different roles, working for different companies and clients based in Brazil, the US, Italy, Ireland, China, Germany, and the Netherlands.

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