Psychology for Designers – a new book from Joe and Five Simple Steps

Our friends at Five Simple Steps have published a new book by Joe.

If you are a web, digital and UX designers, Psychology for Designers will show you how to apply psychology to make your designs more effective and how to use psychology to better advocate design decisions.

Great design is judged on how it makes you feel: emotion is key. This book won’t tell you every single psychology study you have to read. In fact, it contains very little in the way of theory. What it will show you is how to find, apply and advocate design using psychology. Making your designs and they way you talk about them better.

In this book Joe Leech will talk you through in five chapters how to apply psychology to design. He'll cover the benefits of using psychology in design, the and the various types of psychology. He'll also show you how to find and apply a psychology theory to solve a design problem as well as advocating design decisions using psychology. He'll also give an overview of psychology courses and further study.

The pocket eBook is available now for £2 from those nice people at Five Simple Steps