I have been waiting a long time to announce this one! The world famous UX Crash Course, read over 1,000,000 times, is finally a book from O’Reilly, the world’s leading publisher of tech books!

UX For Beginners:

A Crash Course in 100 Short Lessons

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One of the questions I get most is “can I get the UX Crash Course as a book?”

Finally, the answer is yes!

UX For Beginners is the missing book for new UX designers, to get you up to a professional level, as quickly and easily as possible!

It combines the lessons from the super-viral UX Crash Courses on fundamentals and User Psychology, and adds over half-the-book worth of new material. Even the original lessons have been expanded and edited!

But you don’t have to take my word for it…

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“There are many books about UX but few dare to take on the entire spectrum of UX work. UX for Beginners does that and does it well. With digestible chunks of insight into the many facets of UX and Design it gives the beginner a broad view into the field encouraging them to dig deeper into the areas where they are most passionate.”

Jeff Gothelf

Author of Lean UX

“Joel Marsh bends the UX learning curve back to earth, providing practical lessons that will give you a solid start in UX.”



Aaron Walter

VP of R&D, MailChimp / Author of Designing for Emotion

“The UX Crash Course is the most amazing thing in the history of amazing things. No hyperbole. Thanks Joel.”

Silvestre Tanenbaum

Aspiring UX designer

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All 100 lessons only take up about 250 pages, so each one is short and sweet. Only the important stuff. And they’re funny! And they are illustrated by José Marzan Jr., a comic book artist from DC and Marvel! (seriously, he is the real deal).

There are 14 main sections, covering the whole UX process, start-to-finish:



1) Key Ideas: The absolutely core concepts of what UX is and how to think about it.

2) Before You Start: How to prepare for a new project in your company, and how to set up your process so it goes smoothly and efficiently.

3) Behavior Basics: The building blocks of user behavior, and how to predict what motivates them.

4) User Research: A bunch of the most common ways to gather information about your users, from face-to-face interviews, surveys, and more.

5) The Limits of Our Minds: The predictable mistakes that all people will make, and how you can use them in your designs.

6) Information Architecture: How to do site maps, and how to organize your pages and content so they make sense.

7) Designing Behavior: You don’t have to watch your users do whatever they want, design their behavior so it’s effective!

8) Visual Design Principles: Make sure your users see what is important, and understand what parts of the layout are related.

9) Wireframes and Prototypes: Make a document that other designers developers can use to build your app or website.

10) Psychology of Usability: Understand what usability actually is, eliminate user mistakes, and handle any errors gracefully.

11) Content: Make your content clear, persuasive, and use it to motivate your users to share!

12) The Moment of Truth: Launch that bitch!

13) Data for Designers: Everything you need to know to get started in analytics, but just the visual stuff and the basics. No math. Nothing complicated.

14) Get a Job You Dirty Hippy: How to create a portfolio, what kind of UX job you should look for, and what you can expect from your first UX job.

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Are you a beginner in UX?

Are you a manager of UX designers?

Do you want to understand the UX designers you work with?

START LEARNING UX NOW!



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(If you liked the original UX Crash Course, please share this book with your designer friends!)