From Designing to Thriving in a Product World
User experience designers and researchers are wrestling with product management--as a peer discipline, a job title, a future career--or simply wondering exactly what it entails. In Product Management for UX People, Christian Crumlish demystifies product management for UX practitioners who want to understand, partner with, and even become product managers.
Principles, Patterns, and Practices for Improving the User Experience
From the creators of Yahoo!'s Design Pattern Library, Designing Social Interfaces provides you with more than 100 patterns, principles, and best practices, along with salient advice for many of the common challenges you'll face when starting a social website. Designing sites that foster user interaction and community-building is a valuable skill for web developers and designers today, but it's not that easy to understand the nuances of the social web. Now you have help.Christian Crumlish and Erin Malone share hard-won insights into what works, what doesn't, and why. You'll learn how to balance opposing factions and grow healthy online communities by co-creating them with your users.