<p style="margin:0px">Today, software must deliver an outstanding user experience: if it doesn't, it will fail. For developers, UX expertise isn't just &quot;nice to have&quot; anymore: it's a must. This is a comprehensive developer's guide to achieving world-class user experience.</p><p style="margin:0px">&nbsp;</p><p style="margin:0px">Unlike previous &quot;UX&quot; guides, David Platt's <b>The Joy of UX</b>is written from the standpoint of the developer who must now successfully address user experience while also coping with all the technical, scheduling, and budget challenges of modern software projects. Platt takes a technology-agnostic approach to the principles and techniques of effective user experience development, and addresses crucial issues such as telemetry and security that other UX guides largely ignore. Through concrete examples and a complete, start-to-finish case study, you'll learn how to:</p><ul><li><div style="margin:0px">Recognize why so many software user experiences have been so terrible - and what can be done about that</div></li><li><div style="margin:0px">Create personas that deepen your understanding of your users</div></li><li><div style="margin:0px">Use stories to discover what problems they're really trying to solve</div></li><li><div style="margin:0px">Quickly implement and iterate user interfaces with wireframes and layouts</div></li><li><div style="margin:0px">Test early to see how users reacted to your approach</div></li><li><div style="margin:0px">Utilize telemetry to capture the best possible usage information</div></li><li><div style="margin:0px">Make sense of the user data you capture</div></li><li><div style="margin:0px">Solve the unique experience problems presented by mobile environments</div></li><li><div style="margin:0px">Capture and effectively present &quot;big data&quot;</div></li><li><div style="margin:0px">Address tradeoffs between security and usability</div></li><li><div style="margin:0px">&quot;Polish&quot; your user experience to professional quality, and more</div></li></ul><p style="margin:0px">Whether you're participating in UX development as a team member, implementing a UX someone else has already designed, or leading the entire process yourself,<b>The Joy of UX </b>will be your indispensable companion.</p>