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Moderating Usability Tests provides insight and guidance for usability testing To a large extent successful usability testing depends on the skills of the person facilitating the test However most usability specialists still learn how to conduct tests through an apprentice system with little formal trainingThis book is the resource for new and experienced moderators to learn about the rules and practices for interacting Authors Dumas and Loring draw on their combined 40 years of usability testing experience to develop and present the most effective principles and practices 8211 both practical and ethical 8211 for moderating successful usability tests The videos are available from the publishers companion web site. 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Connecting Principles #1: . INFLUENCE. Connecting Signals. Extra Effort. Unsolicited Appreciation. 8220For years now I8217ve been running around preaching to anyone who8217ll listen that UX is something that everybody (not just UX people) needs to be doing. Dave has done an excellent job of explaining what developers need to know about UX in a complete but compact easy-to-absorb and implementable form. Developers come and get it8221 8213Steve Krug author of Don8217t Make Me Think A Common Sense Approach to Web UsabilityMaster User Experience and Interaction Design from the Developer8217s PerspectiveFor modern developers UX expertise is indispensable Without outstanding user experience your software will fail. Now David Platt has written the first and only comprehensive developer8217s guide to achieving a world-class user experience.Quality user experience isn8217t hard but it does require developers to think in new ways. The Joy of UX shows you how with plenty of concrete examples. Firmly grounded in reality this guide will help you optimize usability and engagement while also coping with difficult technical schedule and budget constraints.Platt8217s technology-agnostic approach illuminates all the principles techniques and best practices you need to build great user experiences for the web mobile devices and desktop environments. He covers the entire process from user personas and stories through wireframes layouts and execution. He also addresses key issues8213such as telemetry and security8213that many other UX guides ignore. You8217ll find all the resources and artifacts you need complete case studies sample design documents testing plans and more.This guide shows you how toRecognize and avoid pitfalls that lead to poor user experiencesLearn the crucial difference between design and mere decorationPut yourself in your users8217 shoes8213understand what they want (and where when and why)Quickly sketch and prototype user interfaces for easy refinementTest your sketches on real users or appropriate surrogatesIntegrate telemetry to capture the best possible usage informationUse analytics to accurately interpret the data you8217ve capturedSolve unique experience problems presented by mobile environmentsSecure your app without compromising usability any more than necessary8220Polish8221 your UX to eliminate user effort everywhere you canRegister your product at informit.com/register for convenient access to downloads updates and corrections as they become available.nbsp Information appliances and other interactive products quotbeyond the desktopquot present user interface design challenges that are only beginning to be understood. In this one-of-a-kind book interaction designers examine the issues they confronted in their projects Microsoft Windows CE a vehicle navigation system interactive children\'s toys and more. You\'ll enjoy reading their engaging and sometimes surprising stories but more importantly you\'ll gain insights that will benefit your own design and development work.* Begins with an interview in which design expert Don Norman details his vision of quotmaking technology invisible.quot* Includes an eight-page full-color insert containing screen shots product diagrams and other illustrations. * Presents inside accounts of information appliance success stories including* An interview with Rob Haitani lead interaction designer of the original PalmPilot* The design and evaluation methodologies behind Nokia\'s mobile phones* The high-level information appliance design considerations emphasized by Sun Microsystems * Essential reading for interaction designers human factors engineers usability specialists software engineers and project managers working in all of these areas. Every stage in the design of a new web site is an opportunity to meet or miss deadlines and budgetary goals. Every stage is an opportunity to boost or undercut the site\'s usability. Usability for the Webnbsptells you how to design usable web sites in a systematic process applicable to almost any business need. You get practical advice on managing the project and incorporating usability principles from the project\'s inception. This systematic usability process for web design has been developed by the authors and proven again and again in their own successful businesses.A beacon in a sea of web design titles this book treats web site usability as a preeminent practical and realizable business goal not a buzzword or abstraction. The book is written for web designers and web project managers seeking a balance between usability goals and business concerns.Examines the entire spectrum of usability issues including architecture navigation graphical presentation and page structure.Explains clearly the steps relevant to incorporating usability into every stage of the web development process from requirements to tasks analysis prototyping and mockups to user testing revision and even postlaunch evaluations. You just know that an improvement of the user interface will reap rewards but how do you justify the expense and the labor and the time8212guarantee a robust ROI8212ahead of time? How do you decide how much of an investment should be funded? And what is the best way to sell usability to others?In this completely revised and new edition of Cost-Justifying Usability Randolph G. Bias (University of Texas at Austin with 25 years8217 experience as a usability practitioner and manager) and Deborah J. Mayhew (internationally recognized usability consultant and author of two other seminal books including The Usability Engineering Lifecycle) tackle these and many other problems. It has been updated to cover cost-justifying usability for Web sites and intranets for the complex applications we have today and for a host of products8212offering techniques examples and cases that are unavailable elsewhere. No matter what type of product you build whether or not you are a cost-benefit expert or a born salesperson this book has the tools that will enable you to cost-justify the appropriate usability investment.Includes contributions by a host of experts involved in this work including Aaron Marcus Janice Rohn Chauncey Wilson Nigel Bevan Dennis Wixon Clare-Marie Karat Susan Dray Charles Mauro and many othersIncludes actionable ideas for every phase of the software development processIncludes case studies from inside a variety of companiesIncludes ideas from quotthe other side of the tablequot software executives who hold the purse strings who offer thoughts on which proposals for usability support they\'ve funded and which ones they\'ve declined A commitment to usability in user interface design and development offers enormous benefits including greater user productivity more competitive products lower support costs and a more efficient development process. But what does it mean to be committed to usability? Inside a twenty-year expert answers this question in full presenting the techniques of Usability Engineering as a series of product lifecycle tasks that result directly in easier-to-learn easier-to-use software.You\'ll learn to perform a complete requirements analysis and then incorporate the resulting goals and constraints in a highly structured iterative design and development process. This process doesn\'t end with installation but instead begins anew with the collection of user feedback that will guide further development. Also covered are organizational issues related to the implementation of Usability Engineering including cost justification project planning and organizational structures. Incorporating research from a range of disciplines this book provides an accessible and engaging explanation of Web 2.0 and its wider context yet is still grounded in the rigor of computer science. The author discusses the underlying ideas and principles and covers the main types of Web 2.0 services including social networks media sharing sites and microblogging. He also presents the technologies and standards that underpin the operation of Web 2.0 and goes beyond this to explore cloud computing Web Science and other emerging topics. [EBOOK] Electrical Principles and Practices
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