Laws of UX: Using Psychology to Design Better Products & Services

The advice in this book is invaluable and actionable and very readable. The book is well structured, pointing out how to avoid design errors that will work against the user. It considers ethics around the UX taking advantage of human psychology. This is very important to me. I'm not interested in hooking users. Rather in helping them achieve their goals (music improvisation).

Essential for my CPD

I bought this as I already had the excellent Laws of UX cards (was a freebie from UX Brighton conference a few years ago). The book expands on the cards in as much detail as I was hoping for, but it’s just a shame that an expensive book has the print quality only slightly above that of a newspaper. Why is the print quality so bad?! I have no idea if the first edition is this bad but if it was better I’d have been tempted to buy that instead.

Yablonski breaks down a number of heuristics or razors based on psychological research and how it applies to user experience. These included: Jakob's Law, Fitt's Law, Hick's Law, Miller's Law, Peak-End Rule and Tesler's Law (on complexity). While the book focuses on UX, I thought of ways that the thinking could be applied to various aspects of advertising strategy.

disappointing that it arrived with sticky glue across the cover

The content is great but the printing quality is very low/poor and pages are not even cut properly. Very disappointed

This is a phenomenal little book that I not only recommend for UX designers, but for all designers. The principles discussed are essential for visual communication and it was delightful to see concepts I practiced explained in an adroit and deft manner that could be used to convey that information to clients.

Great book Good examples Could have been more practical. Laws were important but also there could be some better guidelines to evaluate designs

Beginners to experts, it's a great reference book to have

Great book, first edition was great, this one includes some updates and elaboration on some topics, great as a reference and top-of-mind guides to build better products and experiences.

This is multiapplicable! A very helpful book for UIUX. Would highly recommend!