tailieunhanh - User-Centered Design: A Developer's Guide to Building User-Friendly Applications

How do you design engaging applications that people love to use? This book demonstrates several ways to include valuable input from potential clients and customers throughout the process. With practical guidelines and insights from his own experience, author Travis Lowdermilk shows you how usability and user-centered design will dramatically change the way people interact with your application. | A Developer s Guide to Building User-Friendly Applications User-Centered Travis Lowdermllk O REILLY8 Software Development Usability User-Centered Design How do you design engaging applications that people love to use This book demonstrates several ways to include valuable input from potential clients and customers throughout the process. With practical guidelines and insights from his own experience author Travis Lowdermilk shows you how usability and user-centered design will dramatically change the way people interact with your application. Learn valuable strategies for conducting each stage of the design process from interviewing likely users and discovering your application s purpose to creating a rich user experience with sound design principles. User-Centered Design is invaluable no matter what platform you use or audience you target. Explore usability and how it relates to user-centered design Learn how to deal with users and their unique personalities Clarify your application s purpose using a simple narrative to describe its use Plan your project s development with a software development life cycle Be creative within the context of your user-experience goals Use visibility consistency and other design principles to enhance user experience Collect valuable user feedback on your prototype with surveys interviews and usability studies User-Centered Design takes a unique look at how user research meets design concepts focusing on the core logic and knowledge behind the subject. The book delivers a staple in the library for anyone creating products for their users helping to build an understanding about why a focus on the user is so important in design. Jonathan Leblanc Principal Developer Evangelist with PayPal Developer Travis Lowdermilk has developed custom software for health care architecture and business for more than 15 years using web mobile touch and voice solutions. Travis is co-host of The Windows Developer Show a weekly Internet .