Communicating the User Experience: A Practical Guide for Creating Useful UX Documentation

The ultimate guide to creating great user experience documentation

As websites and applications become richer and more complex, the quality of the end user experience becomes critical. UX, or User Experience, is a growing speciality that concerns itself with Translating business requirements and user research into documentation that clearly Communicates a web design vision a Blueprint for developing it.

'Communicating the User Experience' explores creating great UX documentation from every angle. Drawing upon their considerable experience working with some of the world's best known companies, Richard Caddick and Steve Cable provide:

- Clear explanations of the function of specific documents, describing what goes into them, the information they should communicate, their intended audiences, and more
- Tutorials in common development software such as OmniGraffle, Axure, PowerPoint, Word, and Excel
- Key tools of the trade, including personas and user stories, user journeys, task models, funnel diagrams, wireframes, content audits, and user testing
- A companion website featuring a gold mine of usable templates, documents, forms and project files
- Dozens of vivid, full color screenshots, photos, and diagrams

Whether you're established web designer, a recent graduate, or sombody looking to change careers, 'Communicating the User Experience' is an ideal resource for getting started with creating UX documentation.