Canziba - Hands-on UX design for developers design, prototype, and implement compelling user experiences from scratch

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Elvis Canziba has over 12 years of digital experience, the bulk of which came from working in the highly competitive industry.

He is a UX designer and frontend developer with a passion for technology and a knack for creating order out of chaos. He previously worked with different companies in the United States and Europe, and has moved to Dubai within the last two years. In that time, he has produced fantastic results in UX design and has managed various companies as Lead Developer, producing a high ROI every time.

Basil Miller is the co-founder of Devlight and an Ivano-Frankivsk-based leading Android developer. Since 2014, Android developers all over the world have observed his progress and are using free products that he has developed as an open source Android UI widgets provider. Those libraries have reached the top of the popular trend charts. Being a co-founder and developer by nature, Basil is able and willing to collaborate in work on new business projects and startups. Also, it is easy to contact Basil in order to involve him in projects as a mobile development consultant.

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The User Experience (UX) field is growing rapidly, and most businesses are realizing that achieving their goals requires a level of product presence that is aligned with that of customer needs. UX is an essential part of product creation today, but the process of it can be long and costly. So, in this book, we are going to explain everything UXfrom the complete basics right up to the advanced stuff.

If you want to learn about the processes, tools, and techniques that are required for creating a great UX design, this hands-on guide has you covered.

We'll start off our journey by understanding what UX is in the first place, why we need UX, how to do UX, and how to handle discovery, planning, research, and design with good UX in mind. Then, we will explain the full stack design dilemma and, more importantly, we will dive deeper into explaining the development side of an UX project.

With this book, you will gain the ability to think like a UX designer and understand both sides of product development, both the design and coding parts. You'll master how to create engaging, human-centered design practices, UX methodologies, the UX process itself, animation, and interaction. Finally, you'll prepare your portfolio and find yourself having become an expert in the UX field.

This book is mainly for developers who want to enter the UX design field, but is also for product owners, entrepreneurs, and even beginner designers who would like to learn more about UX design and become professionals in this field.

, What is UX, will explain what UX design is, the main differences between UX and UI design, and the path to becoming a UX designer. Once everything is clear regarding the tasks of the UX designer, we will move on to explain the simple process of UX design and its various stages. Besides this, we will explain what full stack design is and how to become a full stack designer.

, UX Design Process, will discuss the most important things that we need to know to become a UX designer. The UX design process is a key thing that everyone in the UX industry is undertaking, but they are all doing so differently. So, we will dive deeper inside the UX design process and its stages to fully understand them. After that, we will move on to explain how to do UX project planning and proposals, and look at how to create a UX strategy. Also, to create a good UX, we need to understand the client business, competitors, and customers, and this will be covered during this chapter.