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By
Debbie Stone, Open University, UK
Caroline Jarrett, Effortmark Ltd, Leighton Buzzard, UK
Mark Woodroffe, Open University, UK
Shailey Minocha, Open University, UK
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Interactive Technologies,
Description
Whether you are a professional new to the user-centered design field, or an experienced designer who needs to learn the fundamentals of
user interface design and evaluation, this book can lead the way.
What will you get from this book? Based on a course from the Open
University, UK which has been taught to over a thousand professionals and students, this book presents an overview of the field. It illustrates
the benefits of a user-centered approach to the design of software, computer systems, and web sites, and provides a clear and practical
discussion of requirements gathering; developing interaction design from user requirements; and user interface evaluation. The book's
coverage includes established HCI topics?for example, visibility, affordance, feedback, metaphors, mental models, and the like?combined
with practical guidelines for contemporary designs and current trends, which makes for a winning combination. You get a clear presentation
of ideas, illustrations of concepts, using real-world applications.
This book will help you develop all the skills necessary for iterative
user-centered design, and provides a firm foundation for user interface design and evaluation on which to build.
Audience
Seasoned professionals in user interface design and usability engineering (looking for new tools with which to expand their knowledge),
new people who enter the HCI field with no prior educational experience, and software developers, web application developers, and information
appliance designers, who need to know more about interaction design and evaluation.
Contents
I. Introduction. II. Requirements: How to gather requirements; Users and the domain; Tasks and Work; Thinking about and Describing Requirements;
Case Study on requirements. III. Design: Work reengineering and conceptual design; design rationale and principles; Interaction design;
Interaction styles; Choosing Interaction devices: hardware; Choosing interaction elements: software components; Case study on Design;
Style guides; guidelines and user-centered design; Designing a GUI; Designing for the Web; Design of embedded computer systems and small
devices; Case study on requirements, design, and evaluation. IV Evaluation: Why evaluate? ; Deciding on what to evaluate, the strategy;
Planning who, what, where, and when; Deciding how to collect data; Final preparations for the evaluation; Analysis and interpretation
of user-observation evaluation data; Inspections of the User Interface; Variations and more comprehensive evaluations. V: Persuasion:
Communication and using findings; Winning and maintaining support for user-centered design; Summary.
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Paperback, 704 pages, publication date: MAR-2005
ISBN-13: 978-0-12-088436-0
ISBN-10: 0-12-088436-4
Imprint: MORGAN KAUFFMAN
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