Once you catch the user experience bug, the world changes. Doors open the wrong way, websites don't work, and companies don't seem to care. And while anyone can learn the UX remedies usability testing, personas, prototyping and so on unless your organization “gets it”, putting them into practice is trickier.
Undercover User Experience Design is a pragmatic guide from the front lines, giving frank advice on making UX work in real companies with real problems. Readers will learn how to fit research, generating ideas, prototyping and testing into their daily workflow, and how to design good user experiences under the all-too-common constraints of time, budget and culture.
Endorsements
A wonderful, practical, yet subversive book. Cennydd and James teach you the subtle art of fighting for—and designing for—users in a hostile world.
Joshua Porter, co-founder Performable & co-creator of 52WeeksofUX.com
Cennydd and James’s clever and crafty book will teach you how to make your own rules, play well with others, and create a culture of UX from the ground up.
Whitney Hess, user experience design consultant
Making design matter in your organization is not about titles and talk. It’s about what you get done every day. Undercover User Experience Design will show you the way.
Luke Wroblewski, author of Web Form Design & Site-Seeing
Authors
Cennydd Bowles leapt into the world of user experience eight years ago and hasn't shut up about it since. He now works for Clearleft in Brighton, England and moonlights as a UX blogger, mentor and community evangelist. Cennydd is a regular public speaker (SXSW, IA Summit), a widely published writer (A List Apart, Johnny Holland, .net magazine) and co-conspirator of the UX London conference.
James Box is a self-confessed ‘user experience professional’. Part information architect and part interaction designer, when he's not crafting sandcastles on the beach, James crafts websites that are fun and easy to use.