User Interface Design and Evaluation (Interactive Technologies)

User Interface Design and Evaluation (Interactive Technologies)

<p><i>User Interface Design and Evaluation</i> provides an overview of the user-centered design field. It illustrates the benefits of a user-centered approach to the design of software, computer systems, and websites.</p> <p>The book provides clear and practical discussions 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. It provides a clear presentation of ideas, illustrations of concepts, using real-world applications. This book will help readers 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.</p> <p>It is ideal for 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.</p><ul><li>Co-published by the Open University, UK.</li><li>Covers the design of graphical user interfaces, web sites, and interfaces for embedded systems.</li><li>Full color production, with activities, projects, hundreds of illustrations, and industrial applications.</li></ul>