Book by Maigen Thomas
Expected release date: February 2025
Publisher: Mercury Learning, an imprint of De Gruyter
Book Description:
This hands-on guide takes early-career UX designers step-by-step through the process of identifying a potential client and planning and pitching a UX project, including all the methods, tools, and strategies involved in executing that project. Readers come away with the ability to land a new client and complete a real-world, end-to-end UX project. They will have a solid foundation for a portfolio case study rooted in industry-recognized experience. This book provides an invaluable and repeatable process, the blueprint for all your future UX projects, large and small.
Learning UX design gives you the skills and resources needed to successfully freelance or land an in-house designer role. But to get the job you want, you’ve got to do the work.
This book will get you from “zero to one.” Guiding you from having no experience to gaining practical experience through completing a project of your own making; one that has an impact on real users and builds a case study that reflects your applied knowledge, skills, and potential.
By the end of the book, you’ll have learned an efficient, repeatable process you can follow to build a portfolio with real-world, industry-recognized experience.
While I’m writing the book, I’ll also be creating an asynchronous course where people can learn the process one step at a time, with more detail and examples given. This will augment the current linear style of delivery: using one website to follow the process from end-to-end. This course–Practical Website Accessibility–will be available for beta testing in Q1 2025