The UX Book, 3rd Edition

About the Book

A comprehensive textbook and field guide covering the full user experience design lifecycle, built around a practical, agile approach to UX. Now in its third edition, it remains a how-to handbook for practitioners and a course-ready textbook for students.

Textbook Excellence Award, 2020 Most Promising New Textbook Award, 2013

Features

What sets this edition apart.

Ready-to-Use Course Materials

Fills a gap other UX textbooks leave open, with instructor-ready supplementary materials for building a full college-level course.

Integrated Lifecycle Coverage

Combines contextual inquiry, design, and evaluation into one continuous process, drawing on established contextual design methods.

Who It's For

Written for anyone learning or teaching UX design.

Graduate Students

Core or supplementary text for HCI/UX graduate coursework.

Senior Undergraduates

A structured introduction to end-to-end UX practice.

Industry Professionals

A field guide for applying agile UX methods on the job.

Self-Learners

Approachable enough to work through outside a classroom.

Authors

Rex Hartson

Rex Hartson is a pioneer researcher, teacher, and practitioner-consultant in HCI and UX. He is the founding faculty member of HCI (in 1979) in the Department of Computer Science at Virginia Tech. With Deborah Hix, he was co-author of one of the first books to emphasize the usability engineering process, Developing User Interfaces: Ensuring Usability Through Product & Process. Hartson has been principal investigator or co-PI at Virginia Tech on a large number of research grants and has published many journal articles, conference papers, and book chapters. His HCI practice is grounded in over 30 years of consulting and user experience engineering training for dozens of clients in business, industry, government, and the military.

Pardha S. Pyla

Pardha Pyla is an award-winning designer and product strategist with deep expertise in envisioning and delivering industry-leading products. He is the founding member of multiple thriving product and design (UX) practices that were responsible for producing successful enterprise software solutions in use across many industries. He is a pioneering researcher in the area of coordinating software engineering and UX lifecycle processes and the author of several peer-reviewed research publications in human-computer interaction and software engineering. He has received numerous awards in recognition of his work in design thinking, research, teaching, leadership, and service.

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