UX Storytellers - Connecting the Dots

586 Pages·2010·15.265 MB·English

by  Jan Jursa (editor), Stephen Köver (editor), Jutta Grünewald (editor)

UX Storytellers
Aaron Marcus
Abhay Rautela
Andrea Resmini
Andrew Hinton
Andrea Rosenbusch
Connecting the Dots
Cennydd Bowles
Chris Khalil
Daniel Szuc
Clemens Lutsch
Colleen Jones
Dave Malouf
David St. John
David Travis
Eirik Hafver Rønjum
Deborah J. Mayhew
Harri Kiljander
Gennady Osipenko
Henning Brau
James Kalbach
Jan Jursa
James Kelway
Jason Hobbs
Jay Eskenazi
Jiri Mzourek
Ken Beatson
Lennart Nacke
Marianne Sweeny
Edited by
Mark Hurst
Martin Belam Jan Jursa,
Matthieu Mingasson
Stephen Köver
Olga Revilla
Patrick Kennedy and Jutta Grünewald
Paul Kahn
Rob Goris
Robert Skrobe
Sameer Chavan
Simon Griffin
Sudhindra Venkatesha
Sylvie Daumal
Thom Haller
Thomas Memmel
Timothy Keirnan
Umyot Boonmarlart
UX Storytellers

UX Storytellers
Connecting the Dots
Edited by:
Jan Jursa
Stephen Köver
Jutta Grünewald
Book layout by:
Iris Jagow
Jan Jursa
Copyright
All stories © 2010 by their respective authors.
All images © 2010 by the respective authors.
UX Storytellers v1.00
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Contents
Acknowledgments xv
Foreword xviii
Chapter 1
Paul Kahn 25
Learning Information Architecture
Jason Hobbs 37
Sex, Drugs and UX
Marianne Sweeny 45
All Who Wander Are Not Lost
Thomas Memmel 61
Watchmakers
Jiri Mzourek 77
UX Goes Viral
Sylvie Daumal 89
What I Know and Don’t Know
Thom Haller 103
Journey into Information Architecture
Jan Jursa 113
Building Arcs with Wall-Hung Urinals
Olga Revilla 127
From Consultancy to Teaching
Sameer Chavan 143
A Journey from Machine Design to Software Design
Ken Beatson 161
UX the Long Way Round
James Kalbach 179
Wine, Women and Song
Chapter 2
Aaron Marcus 197
Almost Dead on Arrival:
A Tale of Police, Danger, and UX Development
Dave Malouf 205
Moving into Non-Linear Iteration
David St. John 223
One Thing, Many Paths
Henning Brau 233
Accepting Star Wars at Work
Mark Hurst 243
A Day at Acme Corp
Timothy Keirnan 249
UX Professional Goes Car Shopping
Sudhindra V. Murthy 265
Design is Problem Solving—In More Ways than One
Gennady Osipenko 283
I Am Feeling Lucky Strike Today
Cennydd Bowles 289
The Stamp
Eirik Hafver Rønjum 297
Cutting Through the Opinions
James Kelway 309
Culture Shock
Andrea Rosenbusch 321
Shaping Spaces
Chris Khalil 333
How to Love and Understand Your Audience
by Probing Them
Martin Belam 349
Using the Right Tool for the Job