Global UX [electronic book] : design and research in a connected world / Whitney Quesenbery, Daniel Szuc.
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TextPublication details: Waltham, MA : Morgan Kaufmann, c2012.ISBN: - 012378591X (electronic bk.)
- 9780123785916 (electronic bk.)
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Global UX: Design and Research in a Connected World discusses how user experience (UX) practice is changing and how practitioners and teams around the world are creating great user experiences for a global context. The book is based on interviews with practitioners from many countries, working on different types of projects. It looks behind the scenes at what it takes to create a user experience that can work across borders, cultures, and languages. The book begins with a quick look at the world outside of UX. This includes the external forces of change and globalization as well as an overview of how culture affects designers and the UX of products. It considers what global UX means for an individual practitioner, a company, and teams. It then turns to the details of global UX with the process and practice of research in the field; how information is brought home and shared with colleagues; and how it is applied in design. The final chapter presents some thoughts about how to deliver value both to projects and the users of finished products.
Includes index.
Chapter 1: The Start of the Journey Chapter 2: It's a New World Chapter 3: Culture and UX Chapter 4: Building Cultural Awareness Chapter 5: Global Companies and Global Strategies Chapter 6: Effective Global Teams Chapter 7 - Research in the Field Chapter 8 - Bringing it Home Chapter 9 - Design for a Global Audience Chapter 10 - Delivering Value.
The start of the journey -- It's a new world -- Culture and UX -- Building your cultural awareness -- Global companies and global strategy -- Effective global teams -- Research in the field -- Bringing it home -- Design for a global audience -- Delivering value.
Protocols exist in the field of user experience, but in light of the challenges faced by globalization, you must now incorporate new methodologies and best practices to analyze, test, design, and evaluate products that take into account a multinational user base. Current UX books and resources don't focus on the unique challenges of creating usable, well-designed products and services in light of varying cultures, technology, and breadth of audience. Challenges you may face on a daily level include: Policies, practices and behavior in multinational organizations; Cross-cultural distributed team issues; Multi-national corporations working across national boundaries and across cultures (both national and corporate); Global standards and national regulations; Accessibility for a global audience, including disabilities; and much more. With Global UX, industry leaders Whitney Quesenbery and Daniel Szuc resolve this issue by offering real world examples of successful UX practice, organized by the authors around specific project objectives, as examples of different ways of working globally. Throughout the book, they provide best practices and lessons learned to help answer common questions and avoid common problems in a multitude of situations. The chapters introduce themes and frameworks of challenges, and then provide related case studies that present how experts solved that problem. This book provides a valuable resource for anyone looking to incorporate new globalized methodologies. *Covers practical user experience best practices for the global environment *Features numerous, global, real-world examples, based on interviews with over 60 UX managers and practitioners from around the world *Contains case studies and vignettes from user research and design projects for multinational companies and small start-ups.
Electronic reproduction. Amsterdam : Elsevier Science & Technology, 2011. Mode of access: World Wide Web. System requirements: Web browser. Title from title screen (viewed on Nov. 2, 2011). Access may be restricted to users at subscribing institutions.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Chapter 1 The Start of the Journey
- Chapter 2 It's a New World
- Chapter 3 Culture and UX
- Chapter 4 Building Cultural Awareness
- Chapter 5 Global Companies and Global Strategies
- Chapter 6 Effective Global Teams
- Chapter 7 Research in the Field
- Chapter 8 Bringing it Home
- Chapter 9 Design for a Global Audience
- Chapter 10 Delivering Value
Author notes provided by Syndetics
Whitney is a user experience researcher and usability expert with a passion for clear communication. Her projects include work for the National Cancer Institute (US), The Open University (UK) and IEEE (worldwide). She enjoys learning about people and using those insights to products where people matter.Pursuing her interest in the usability of civic life, she has served on two US government advisory committees: updating US "Section 508" accessibility regulations and creating standards US elections. She was president of the Usability Professionals' Association (UPA) International, on the board of the Center for Plain Language, and is a Fellow of the Society for Technical Communications.
Whitney is the author, with Kevin Brooks of Storytelling for User Experience: Crafting stories for better design (Rosenfeld Media, 2010). She's also proud that her chapter "Dimensions of Usability" in Content and Complexity turns up on so many course reading lists.
Daniel is Principal Consultant at Apogee, a usability consulting Services Company based in Hong Kong.
Dan previously worked on a usability team for Telstra Australia. He is currently VP of the International UPA (Usability Professionals' Association) and has lectured about UX in Hong Kong, China, Singapore, Malaysia, Australia, the USA, Israel, New Zealand, and Japan He co-wrote a "Usability Kit" with Gerry Gaffney which is an implementation guide providing best practices and guidelines for usability teams. Dan holds a BS in Information Management from Melbourne University in Australia. Currently lives in Hong Kong