DEBORAH HIX - Developing User Interfaces: Ensuring Usability Through Product

Developing User Interfaces: Ensuring Usability Through Product by Deborah Hix
S o you want to develop user interfaces for interactive systems? This practical book will show you how to do just that. Developing User Interfaces is about ensuring high usability through the user interface development process independently of widgets, software, toolkits, and implementation considerations.The hands-on approach of this book uses practical exercises to apply the material presented with a suggested solution for each exercise. You will learn a quantitative approach to usability goals, usability evaluation, and management of the interface development process. Developing User Interfaces shows how to: * Write a customized style guide and apply human factor guidelines to your interface designs * Understand and know when to use currently available interaction styles in your interface designs * Understand and apply the concept of an iterative life cycle for user interface development * Use behavioral, user-centered representation techniques for capturing your interface designs * Establish usability specifications to measure quantitatively the usability of your interface * Build effective rapid prototypes of your interface designs * Carry out formative usability evaluation as your interface evolves * Perform cost/benefit and other analyses to determine which changes to the interface will have the biggest impact on usability Title : Developing User Interfaces: Ensuring Usability Through Product
Author : Deborah Hix
ISBN : 9780471578130Category : Computer programming, programs, data
Publication Year : 1993
Publisher : John Wiley and Sons
Pages : 381
Binding : Softcover
Condition : Good - highlighted text, inscription on the back of the front coverProduct Code : 43916 Product Dimensions : Height (mm) : 235
Width (mm) : 190
Thickness (mm) : 20
Weight (grams) : 733

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