The User Experience Team of One: A Research and Design Survival Guide

Leah works for Intuit as a design strategist, where she focuses on the future of business and personal finance. She speaks and writes about how to expand the impact of UX within enterprises. Her work covers multiple industries, including media, mobile, finance, education, and non-profit. Leah worked as an experience designer for Adaptive Path, a pioneering UX company, before joining Intuit. Her work at Adaptive Path was centered on collaborative UX design methodologies. Prior to joining Adaptive Path, Leah worked on a one-person user experience team in a few companies, including Barclays Global Investors, where she advocated for firm-wide education and adoption of user experience design methods. Leah graduated from Barnard College with a bachelor's degree in American studies and a master's degree in library and information science.

Due to the demands of modern products and Web development, projects are frequently understaffed. When you're the understaffed designer, your success is knowing when to cut corners and when to go all-in. This well-written book explains what works and what wastes time. The User Experience Team of One: A Research and Design Survival Guide will assist you in becoming that well-tempered UX team that can be terrific while doing the impossible (said by Alan Cooper, co-founder of Cooper Design and author of The Inmates Are Running the Asylum).

You can open my eyes to a more effective approach to UX design after reading this book. Her light, practical, and collaborative approach helps to shape a better user experience while engaging and educating non-UX colleagues -Boagworld Web Design Podcast Host Paul Boag.

Author: Leah Buley

Link to buy: https://www.amazon.com/User-Experience-Team-One-Research/dp/1933820187