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What Is User Experience?

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Over the past few years, the prominence of the term "User Experience" has grown significantly. The term, coined by Don Norman, was not created to simply focus on digital products, but to encompass the entire experience that an individual has, through any and all mediums, around a product or a service.

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Knight, W. (2019). What Is User Experience?. In: UX for Developers. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4227-8_1

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