- Hardcover: 358 pages
- Publisher: Academic Press Inc (July 1993)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0125184050
- ISBN-13: 978-0125184052
- Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 15.7 x 2.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
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"The purpose of Jakob Nielsen's Usability Engineering is to help nontechnical people improve the systems so that they are not only error-free but also easier and more pleasant to use, and more efficient. It is a book that ...shows us how to change the world and does so admirably...One of this book's strengths is that it provides a wide selection of methods for improving systems, and allows for the unavoidable constraints of the real world." --NEW SCIENTIST
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Written by the author of the bestselling HyperText & HyperMedia, this book is an excellent guide to the methods of usability engineering. It emphasizes cost effective methods that will help developers improve user interfaces immediately. Step-by-step information on which methods to use at various stages during the development life cycle are included, along with how to run a usability test.
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31 of 35 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
As a Web site designer, I've long been an advocate of JakobNielsen's ideas -- to an extent. Usability is arguably the most important aspect of any design project, and an aspect too often ignored by many software and Web site designers.
Mr. Nielsen, in his book, very aptly points out typical errors and common stumbling blocks of interface design, and presents very convincing arguments and methods for solving these problems. However, strict adherence to Mr. Nielsen's interface design techniques, at the expense of less easily measured human factors, will often result in a sterile and boring product. Both are eminently efficient and usable, but are also wonderful examples of visual blandness -- nearly devoid of the human and aesthetic factors that contributes to a depth of personality and a richness of sensory stimulation.
Although Mr. Nielsen never specifically advocates this, the logical conclusion of his approach is an interface design whose personality and soul have been stripped away in a slavish preference for pure, unencumbered efficiency and usability. Contrary to Mr. Nielsen's examples, the quest for usability should not abrogate the need to avoid ugliness.
For the sake of efficient usability, I wonder if Mr. Nielsen has replaced his impractical, hard-to-maintain backyard lawn with efficient asphalt paving. Or maybe pulled out his expensive, hard-to-clean, dirt collecting, living room carpet and replaced it with an efficient concrete floor. I'm joking of course, but even if Mr. Nielson thinks this way, most do not. Yet, this is the result achieved by many of his user interface examples.
Perhaps on the planet Vulcan where everyone thinks like Mr. Spock, Mr. Nielsen's conclusions and methods might be the eminently rational final word on good interface design. But on Earth the value of his conclusions and usability tests must be weighed against the somewhat hard-to-measure and difficult-to-quantify factors of illogical human personality and perception.
Although Mr. Nielsen's observations, conclusions and suggestions continue to be very valuable in helping to pull interface design towards much needed greater usability and functionality, his mistake seems to be that this is all he sees as being important.
Cory Maylett
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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Over the past 10 years only a few programming books have made it onto my 'must have' list. Usability Engineering is near the top. Jakob Nielsen's style is humorous and exact. More good advice could hardly be packed into one volume than you will find here.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
"Usability Engineering" explains the principles of software
usability, and clearly outlines techiniques for assesing
the usablility of your product.
His techniques give a lot of bang for the
buck. There is no excuse not to use them.
He makes convincing arguments for the value of
incorporating usability into the entire software design
and development process. This book is an excellent companion
to Cooper's User Interface bible,"About Face".
usability, and clearly outlines techiniques for assesing
the usablility of your product.
His techniques give a lot of bang for the
buck. There is no excuse not to use them.
He makes convincing arguments for the value of
incorporating usability into the entire software design
and development process. This book is an excellent companion
to Cooper's User Interface bible,"About Face".
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