- Paperback: 416 pages
- Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (3 Jun 1993)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0471578134
- ISBN-13: 978-0471578130
- Product Dimensions: 23.3 x 19 x 2.5 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 386,095 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Developing User Interfaces Ensuring Usability Through Product & Process "This book is an important milestone in our progress toward embracing user–centered design. This is the first book to emphasize process.[it] details a pragmatic approach to the interface development process in a way that is immediately useful to practitioners struggling to produce usable interfaces." ––James D. Foley, Georgia Tech So 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
∗ 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
About the Author
About the authors DEBORAH HIX and H. REX HARTSON are researchers and faculty members at Virginia Tech (VPI and SU), where they specialize in the design and development of user interfaces. Both have extensive consulting and training experience in human–computer interaction for a broad variety of organizations in business, industry, and government.
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Process for usability
8 Jan 2004
Format:Paperback
Ths book is special for showing how high usability goals change the software development process.
It is also though-provoking on how to implement usability.
In regard to the reviewer who thought it was all common sense:
a good usability solution looks natural to the user,
but its only common sense after someone has thought of it.
The unique contribution of good usability designers is in what they reject, not it what they accept.
2 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Nothing but Common Sense
26 Sep 2000
Format:Paperback
Somehow the authors manage to fill several hundred pages without ever saying anything interesting or beyond the level of common sense. The authors seem to try to avoid discussing specifics, but talking about user interfaces in general terms has very little value in my opinion. I'm sure there are many better books available on this topic, so my advice is to keep looking!
0 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Usability Frist!
9 May 2000
Format:Paperback
This book gives a new approach to interface developement process, which will ensure USABILITY throughout the developement lifecycle. Anybody who who wants to develop interfaces(software & web) with good usability, can be benefited by this book.
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