A great book for people starting in the field of UX is “A Project Guide to UX Design by Russ Unger and Carolyn Chandler.
The book gives a broad view of what user experience designers do in their field and the roles they have on projects and teams.
It also provides valuable information on the disciplines required of a UX designer such as wireframing, prototyping, and creating task flows.
It does not provide massive amounts of details on each topic, but gives you enough information to know how it all fits in the broad field of UX Design.
“Our target for this book was beginner to intermediate and folks who are in small teams who… may not know where to start,” said Unger.
“I was just mad because it seem like we had gotten really far away from giving people practical things to move themselves ahead in their careers,” said Unger on why he wrote the book.
“We have to do a better job of furthering the field so the people who have been around for a while can figure what’s next to help shape us better.”
“We need to get a lot of people to the point where they are being more strategic and less tactical,” he said on the challenges facing the UX industry.
Unger has been involved with information architecture for large websites such as Oprah.com and United Airlines. He is also a regular contributor to Boxes and Arrows, a site focused on graphic and interaction design and information architecture.
Co-author, Chandler, is the experience design director for an interactive agency, Manifest Digital. She has experience leading UX teams and teaches workshops at DePaul University and various conferences.
