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 how software is developed in the real world, taking tight budgets, short schedules, and existing processes into account. ·Explains how to create usable products that are still original, creative, and unique ·A valuable resource for designers, developers, project managersanyone in a position where their work comes in direct contact with the end user. ·Provides a real-world perspective on research and provides advice about how user research can be done cheaply, quickly and how results can be presented persuasively ·Gives readers the tools and confidence to perform user research on their own designs and tune their software user experience to the unique needs of their product and its users

Knowing how to create a social website to foster user interaction and community building is becoming a core skill for developers and designers today, but grasping the nuances of the social web is much harder than it appears. With more than 100 patterns, principles, and best practices, this book presents practical design solutions that you can use immediately to create or improve a social website interface. Written by curators of "Yahoo!'s Pattern Library", "Designing Social Interfaces" shares hard-won insights into what works, what doesn't, and why. That includes salient advice for many of the common challenges designers and developers face when building managing social websites. This book will help you: learn basic design patterns for adding a social element to an existing site; reign in misbehaving users on an active community site; build a social experience around a product or service, and invite people to join; develop a social utility without having to build an entirely new infrastructure; enable users of your site's content to interact with one another; and, offer your members the opportunity to connect with each other in the real world. The book also exposes antipatterns: emergent bad practices in the social network and social media space.

No matter what type of web site or application you’re building, social interaction among the people who use it will be key to its success. They will talk about it, invite their friends, complain, sing its high praises, and dissect it in countless ways. With the right design strategy you can use this social interaction to get people signing up, coming back regularly, and bringing others into the fold. With tons of examples from real-world interfaces and a touch of the underlying social psychology theory, Joshua Porter shows you how to design your next great social web application. Inside, you’ll discover: • The real reasons why people participate online and the psychology behind them • The Usage Lifecycle—or how people use your web application over time • How to get people past that trickiest of hurdles: sign-up • What to do when you’ve launched a web application and nobody is using it • How to analyze the effectiveness of your application screens and flows • How to grow your social web application from zero users to 1000—and beyond Designing for the social web is about much more than adding features. It’s about embracing the social interaction of the people who make you successful—and then designing smartly to encourage it.

设计调研是设计专业学生和设计师在信息时代需要掌握的一项基本技能，因此本书全方位地就这一主题开展讨论。首先定性地介绍了常用的数据采集方法，如观察法、访谈法、问卷法、头脑风暴法、自我陈述法、实验法等，然后阐述常用的调研分析方法，如数量对比分析、知觉图、鱼骨图、卡片归纳法、情景法、人物角色法、故事板、可用性测试、A/B测试、用户点击行为分析、流量、转化率、跳出率和网站数据分析。最后本书介绍了设计调研的一般流程，以及如何从设计调研到设计洞察，并且提供了两个不同设计方向的教学案例：网站设计调研的案例来自阿里巴巴集团，是关于一个淘宝产品——淘宝指数的产生和迭代过程；环境艺术设计的案例来自上海交通大学，是关于闵行公园的场地调研与设计案例。 《设计调研》是一个团队协同的成果。作者来自各大高校和企业活跃在设计第一线的设计师，比如SAP、三星、阿里巴巴、腾讯、搜狐网、大众点评网、上海交通大学、南京艺术学院等。本书各章节的大量案例引用了高校课堂作业和企业的实际产品，它们与时下的设计理念紧密结合。 《设计调研》可以作为高等教育设计学科的专业教材，也可以为各类设计的从业人员提供参考。

《About Face 4: 交互设计精髓》是《About Face 3：交互设计精髓》的升级版，此次升级把全书的结构重组优化，更加精练和易用；更新了一些适合当下时代的术语和实例，文字全部重新编译，更加清晰易读；增加了更多目标导向设计过程的细节，更新了现行实践，重点增加 移动和触屏平台交互设计，其实《About Face 4: 交互设计精髓》多数内容适用于多种平台。 《About Face 4: 交互设计精髓》是一本数字产品和系统的交互设计指南，全面系统地讲述了交互设计的过程、原理和方法，涉及的产品和系统有个人计算机上的个人和商务软件、Web 应用、手持设备、信息亭、数字医疗系统、数字工业系统等。运用《About Face 4: 交互设计精髓》的交互设计过程和方法，有助于了解使用者和产品之间的交互行为，进而更好地设计出更具吸引力和更具市场竞争力的产品。