Software for use : a practical guide to the models and methods of usage-centered design

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Author:

Constantine, Larry L.

ISBN:

9780201924787

Personal Author:

Constantine, Larry L.

Publication Information:

Reading, Mass. : Addison Wesley, c1999.

Physical Description:

xvi, 579 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Contents:

Sect. I. Toward More Usable Software. 1. Software for Use: Usage, Usability, and User Interfaces. 2. Built-in Usability: A Usage-Centered Design Approach. 3. In Principle: Rules and Principles of Usage-Centered Design -- Sect. II. Essential Models for Usability. 4. Users and Related Species: Understanding Users and User Roles. 5. Working Structures: Task Modeling with Essential Use Cases. 6. Interface Architecture: Interface Contents and Navigation -- Sect. III. Creating the Visual Design. 7. Designing the Dialogue: Layout and Communication. 8. Practical Widgetry: Choosing and Designing Visual Components. 9. Innovative Interfaces: Creative Interface Engineering and Custom Components -- Sect. IV. Completing the Design. 10. Expressing Solutions: Implementation Modeling and Prototypes. 11. Help Me If You Can: Designing Help and Helpful Messages. 12. Once a Beginner: Supporting Evolving Usage Patterns. 13. In Place: Fitting the Operational Context.

14. Same Game, Different Fields: Special Applications, Special Issues. 15. Usage-Centered Design Applied: The TeleGuida Case -- Sect. V. Assessment and Improvement. 16. Better Next Time: Improvement by Inspection and Review. 17. By the Numbers: Measuring Usability in Practice. 18. Test Scores: Laboratory and Field Testing of Usability -- Sect. VI. Organizing and Managing the Process. 19. Code and You're Done: Implementing Interfaces. 20. Using Your Users: Users in the Development Process. 21. Getting Organized: Usability in the Larger Context -- App. B. Eleven Ways to Make Software More Usable: General Principles of Software Usability -- App. D. Forms for Usage-Centered Design -- App. E. Subjective Usability Scales for Software (SUSS).

Subject Term:

Object-oriented programming (Computer science)

Application software -- Development.

Added Author:

Lockwood, Lucy A. D.

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In this text, the authors focus on the models and methods that will help programmers deliver more usable software - software that will allow users to accomplish their own tasks with greater ease and efficiency. They provide concrete tools and techniques that programmers can employ, and guide the readers through a systematic software development process. This process, called usage-centre design, weaves together two major threads in software development methods: cases and essential models. With numerous examples and case studies of both conventional and specialized software applications, the authors illustrate what has been shown in practice to work and what has proved to be of greatest practical value. The authors also make freely available a number of software tools and related materials on the Web.