The next great UX book should cover two areas.
1. Designing for non-interaction
I.e. designing experiences that attempt to minimize the amount of interaction needed.
2. Between the clicks
I.e. the actual flow feel of the product (animations, transitions etc)
The next great book about UX will not be written by a UX person but by either a visual designer (who do UX) or a programmer (who do UX)
On another note but kind of related:
We did something called UXBasis http://uxbasis.hellogroup.com/cards/ which is not a book but lays out the entire field as a deck of cards and a board.
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Personally, I feel the need for a "ux bible" consisting of a collection of usability and design findings with scientific backup, written in plain english.
A lot of my discussions with clients are based on opinions and sometimes I am quite sure I read something to counter it, but I can't recall the exact source. One example: don't use icons only, always add text. This is intuitive, but some clients will still want to use images only. I would like to refer directly to studies proving this is not usable.
Obviously, this can't replace testing, and some decisions will always be based on intuition. H
Personally, I feel the need for a "ux bible" consisting of a collection of usability and design findings with scientific backup, written in plain english.
A lot of my discussions with clients are based on opinions and sometimes I am quite sure I read something to counter it, but I can't recall the exact source. One example: don't use icons only, always add text. This is intuitive, but some clients will still want to use images only. I would like to refer directly to studies proving this is not usable.
Obviously, this can't replace testing, and some decisions will always be based on intuition. However, such a book would be a great help and I would buy it without a second thought.
From a perhaps personal perspective I think that there is a substantial hole in the market for something that covers Service Design credibly, and at a reasonable price.
Obviously this would have to cover well-known deliverables like customer journey maps and service blueprints, but these would need to come with compelling case studies and enough background and method to avoid cargo-cult misapplication.
I don't know what would be the ideal target audience, but aiming it at UX Designers and Product Owners as practitioners, and their sponsoring C-level directors as an overview, would be a good sta
From a perhaps personal perspective I think that there is a substantial hole in the market for something that covers Service Design credibly, and at a reasonable price.
Obviously this would have to cover well-known deliverables like customer journey maps and service blueprints, but these would need to come with compelling case studies and enough background and method to avoid cargo-cult misapplication.
I don't know what would be the ideal target audience, but aiming it at UX Designers and Product Owners as practitioners, and their sponsoring C-level directors as an overview, would be a good start.
If there was a 'Don't Make Me Think' for Service Design ('Don't Make Me Hurt'?), I'd buy it like a shot.
"Design" is very broad. You need to narrow it a little. Is it "design" for beginners? For programmers? UX design? Web design? Visual design? Mobile?
What kind of book is it? Who is it for? You can ask advice on this but you really should decide this yourself. And you are likely best positioned to write a book about something you know a lot about yourself, or are very, very interested in, so start there. What do you have to share? What are you very interested in?
Voice User Interface.
Before web 2.0, we had to go through that phase of bad design decisions on the web such as horrible forms, blaming the users, using technical jargon, etc.
Similarly the voice phase is going through the same. For years IVR systems (Interactive Voice Response - the one you get when you call your bank) suffered that. With emerging technology of speech assistants such as Amazon Echo, Siri and such, there seems to a focus on designing for voice with UX in mind.
I work as a UX consultant, specializing in voice interfaces; clients include Nike / Walgreens . In other words, I give m
Voice User Interface.
Before web 2.0, we had to go through that phase of bad design decisions on the web such as horrible forms, blaming the users, using technical jargon, etc.
Similarly the voice phase is going through the same. For years IVR systems (Interactive Voice Response - the one you get when you call your bank) suffered that. With emerging technology of speech assistants such as Amazon Echo, Siri and such, there seems to a focus on designing for voice with UX in mind.
I work as a UX consultant, specializing in voice interfaces; clients include Nike / Walgreens . In other words, I give machines personality.
I think addressing roles in the UX/UI/Dev process (small teams, large teams, designers, copywriters, devops, etc.) is a huge grey area. I think it's falsely categorized as a 'non-design' topic, but it's completely critical to raise awareness/understanding of who does what when it comes to these things.
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Most of the UI books are based on the color,design,text formats and general eye-catchy topics.
It would be great if the next book made a connection with psychology;what exactly goes through a users head when they look,read different things.And how design can be improved understanding human psychology.
I would like to see a book that could help remove the haziness associated with any or all of the foundational words: "User", "Experience", "Interaction", "Design". A modern-day equivalent of John Dewey's Art as Experience; the way he described Art (hope my interpretation is correct!) with timeless explanations of "experience" "expression", "emotion", "form," "energies", among others, with each term having its own detailed explanation, independent of the medium.
A book that will help de-construct such terms up to the last palatable detail, though not in wiki-style. For instance, when we say a "
I would like to see a book that could help remove the haziness associated with any or all of the foundational words: "User", "Experience", "Interaction", "Design". A modern-day equivalent of John Dewey's Art as Experience; the way he described Art (hope my interpretation is correct!) with timeless explanations of "experience" "expression", "emotion", "form," "energies", among others, with each term having its own detailed explanation, independent of the medium.
A book that will help de-construct such terms up to the last palatable detail, though not in wiki-style. For instance, when we say a "user", we mean a human. And when we say a human, we are referring to the infinite denseness of humanness. The new book should define what humanness really means? What qualities of humanness (or userness) can UX Designers really care about, what they cannot?
E.g does understanding of rational human behavior, that economists have assumed for ages for analyzing human problems, fall under the purview of human experience designers? If not, how will the lack of such 'humanness' be compensated in the design? What is the borderline? At what point do we stop considering designing for humans?
Similarly, What is Interaction? What are its formal aesthetic properties? Is it human-computer interaction, or is it really human-human interaction (through computers) - the end goal of all human-computer activity?
I think it is time to have a strong treatise on the lines of Art as Experience. At least in mundane language, if not one that reads like Dewey's.