Author : Arnie Lund
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0123854970
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (238 download)
Book Synopsis User Experience Management by : Arnie Lund
Download or read book User Experience Management written by Arnie Lund and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2011-05-09 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: User Experience Management: Essential Skills for Leading Effective UX Teams deals with specific issues associated with managing diverse user experience (UX) skills, often in corporations with a largely engineering culture. Part memoir and part handbook, it explains what it means to lead a UX team and examines the management issues of hiring, inheriting, terminating, layoffs, interviewing and candidacy, and downsizing. The book offers guidance on building and creating a UX team, as well as equipping and focusing the team. It also considers ways of nurturing the team, from coaching and performance reviews to conflict management and creating work-life balance. Furthermore, it discusses the essential skills needed in leading an effective team and developing a communication plan. This book will be valuable to new managers and leaders, more experienced managers, and anyone who is leading or managing UX groups or who is interested in assuming a leadership role in the future. Gives a UX leadership boot-camp from putting together a winning team, to giving them a driving focus, to acting as their spokesman, to handling difficult situations Full of practical advice and experiences for managers and leaders in virtually any area of the user experience field Contains best practices, real-world stories, and insights from UX leaders at IBM, Microsoft, SAP, and many more!