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UX for Beginners: A Crash Course in 100 Short Lessons 1st Edition, Kindle Edition

4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 360 ratings

Apps! Websites! Rubber Ducks! Naked Ninjas! This book has everything. If you want to get started in user experience design (UX), you've come to the right place: 100 self-contained lessons that cover the whole spectrum of fundamentals.

Forget dry, technical material. This bookâ??based on the wildly popular UX Crash Course from Joel Marshâ??s blog The Hipper Elementâ??is laced with the author's snarky brand of humor, and teaches UX in a simple, practical way. Becoming a professional doesnâ??t have to be boring.

Follow the real-life UX process from start-to-finish and apply the skills as you learn, or refresh your memory before the next meeting. UX for Beginners is perfect for non-designers who want to become designers, managers who teach UX, and programmers, salespeople, or marketers who want to learn more.

  • Start from scratch: the fundamentals of UX
  • Research the weird and wonderful things users do
  • The process and science of making anything user-friendly
  • Use size, color, and layout to help and influence users
  • Plan and create wireframes
  • Make your designs feel engaging and persuasive
  • Measure how your design works in the real world
  • Find out what a UX designer does all day

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Joel Marsh (@JoelMarsh) has been a professional designer for more than a decade. His work for disruptive startups and famous global brands like Absolute Vodka, Samsung, and McDonald’s, has affected more than half-a-billion people. He can also play drums pretty well, but that’s not very relevant for this book.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01A64DFL0
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ O'Reilly Media; 1st edition (December 21, 2015)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ December 21, 2015
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 7281 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 382 pages
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Joel Marsh (@JoelMarsh) has been a professional designer since 2003. His strategic design work has affected more than half-a-billion people through over 300 products and services. He is the author of the irreverent best-seller "UX for Beginners" and more recently "UX for Business" and founder of Peekerton, a company that offers competitive analytics software and strategic due diligence research.

Although born and raised in Canada, at the age of 25 he sold all of his belongings, bought a one-way plane ticket, and moved to Stockholm, Sweden. He now has his dream job, lives with his beautiful Swedish family, and still has an intense passion for design, psychology, and innovation.

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Customers find the book helpful for understanding UX concepts. They find it interesting and enjoyable, making learning ux pleasant and memorable. The content is described as good and straightforward. Readers appreciate the focus on consumer psychology and persuasion. While some find the humor funny and non-formal, others feel some of the humor is overbearing.

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  • Reviewed in the United States on May 13, 2018
    I was so pleasantly surprised by the content in this book. I had read a few reviews and wasn't really interested in the humor aspect, so I initially put it off. But as someone interested in getting a really good overview of UX Design I decided to cave a purchase the Kindle edition. I am really glad that I did so, as I was impressed by the book from the start.

    It breaks down the process and major fields of UX in extremely digestible chunks, from information architecture to designing with data, with extremely helpful hints, tips, and advice along the way. It doesn't try to overwhelm the user or just slam you with knowledge over and over but actually feels like it was laid out in a concise, digestible fashion that's great for those who are just getting started. I've read quite a few UX books, and this one is actually something that I would recommend for beginners as it doesn't attempt to overwhelm you with unnecessary jargon, while also giving a comprehensive overview to the field.

    My only complaint is that I do think some of the humor is overbearing, and sometimes I wish the author would cut the teenage-level humor and just move on to the point. Still, I give it 5 stars because I really do this is a valuable resource for UX beginners.
    25 people found this helpful
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  • Reviewed in the United States on February 29, 2016
    What I like about this book is that it focuses on understanding consumer psychology. It is not about how to design screens or interfaces like many other books are. The book will help you develop the skills through a thinking process instead of helping you learn tools through instruction and examples.

    Great UX delivery is a GIANT combination of listening to issues, keen observation of good (so you can incorporate into your own) and bad (so you can avoid/address in yours) design, being able to look at things from a user's perspective (both conscious and subconscious), an investigation into the fundamental causes of underlying problems, a deep understanding of consumer psychology, and a desire to put these together in an elegantly simple package that takes care of problems, expectations, and needs.

    Via the 5 main ingredients of UX, the book gets you started on the best foot and goes deeper into designing with user intuition, attention, behavior, interaction, consistency, and persuasion in mind.
    12 people found this helpful
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  • Reviewed in the United States on December 1, 2024
    I liked the book very much. It is well written and easy to understand.
    I would highly recommend it.
  • Reviewed in the United States on February 28, 2023
    These days it's hard to find books that get right to the point and not force us to learn the authors life story, or hear all their personal antidotes. This UX for beginners book is fantastic. Yes simple explanations for complex topics, many times uses analogies to really drill the point home. Thanks author!
  • Reviewed in the United States on June 19, 2019
    Probably the book I will read this year. Although it's practical and tells everything you need to know to understand what UX is all about it's also pretty damn fun to read.
    I stopped reading the fiction book I have started because I wanted to read this one as fast as I could - so much fun I had with all the topics and jokes and real life examples which still were entertaining. The joke about language selector in the footer of an infinitely scrollable page made me laugh out loud. Still there's a lesson in each and every one of those jokes.
    Highly recommend.
  • Reviewed in the United States on February 28, 2016
    Marsh has a lot to say about what UX is and how to do it. The organization of the book into cohesive lessons is sound. There's much more value here than the "for beginners" tag in title might lead you to believe, and readers will find much to reference as they build their UX careers.

    However, the book suffers from excessive profanity and wittiness that seems entirely at odds with good writing style and the O'Reilly brand. I won't try to reproduce Marsh's running stream of sex and porn jokes here, as they would no doubt be edited out by Amazon - as they should have been by Marsh's O'Reilly editors. As the book would appear to be targeted at students, the profanity makes even less sense. There are several moments that are borderline offensive.

    As Marsh's topic is UX, it's baffling that a book with so much great content is brought down several notches by elements that could easily have been removed. In short, like a UX design that could be improved to better serve the user, Marsh's book would be much more readable without all the slang, F bombs and jokes about shopping for sex toys. All this bad language is not needed and does not serve the subject.

    I hope O'Reilly in future will reconsider whether it's appropriate in a tech world already saddled with many issues of inclusion and bad behavior to add to the mess by publishing books where authors exhort readers to "suck the big one". Not really what we need.
    42 people found this helpful
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  • Reviewed in the United States on January 5, 2019
    Literally such a fun and educational book. I learned a lot about the basics while laughing at his funny jokes, metaphors and sarcastic comments. It was relatable and easy to digest. Thanks to it I'm now taking an intensive course on UX Design and hoping to get a Masters too.

    I would definitely recommend it anyone who's curious about UX Design.
    3 people found this helpful
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  • Reviewed in the United States on April 2, 2017
    It is perfect to understand MANY concepts, I am not a designer but in my job I am in charge of front-end development, this book is quite good for someone who wants to hae a bit of an open mind about UX concepts, it will not teach you how to create a perfect user experience, but it will give you a lot of ideas on what you are missing, think of it as the checklist you need to TRY to cover when creating an application.

    Remember:There is no such thing as the PERFECT UX, UX is not a recipe, UX is a process of invention and reinvention, This book helped me realize that.
    11 people found this helpful
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  • Geemon Mathai
    5.0 out of 5 stars Very Crisp words of wisdom
    Reviewed in India on March 29, 2023
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    This is an exceptionally good book for anybybew to UX and somebody considering UX as a profession. Having said that this book is also equally good for already working UX professional since this book will act like a toolbox
  • Amazon Customer
    4.0 out of 5 stars Well written, descriptive, and entertaining.
    Reviewed in Canada on December 18, 2019
    Haven't finished it yet, but it's an easy to understand translation of UX. It's also hilarious.
  • Petar
    5.0 out of 5 stars Interesting book
    Reviewed in Germany on January 14, 2021
    Nice advice for beginner ux designer
  • Cecilia Farina
    5.0 out of 5 stars Ottimo
    Reviewed in Italy on September 8, 2020
    Pratico, piacevole da leggere, completo. Fornisce una preparazione di base ottima e esaustiva in tempi rapidi. Consigliato per chi si affaccia a questa professione o ne vuole sapere qualcosa.
  • John
    5.0 out of 5 stars UX For the beginner!
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 21, 2020
    If you are a UX beginner, this book is definitely for you.
    Would recommend to any UX newbie.

    The concepts are extremely brief and very easy to understand.
    I hope the author makes a fortune :)

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