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| October 1994, Ap Professional, Paperback, 362 pages, ISBN 0125184069
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This
book is an excellent guide to the methods of usability engineering.
Special features:
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emphasizes cost-effective methods that will help developers improve
their user interfaces immediately,
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shows you how to avoid the four most frequently listed reasons
for delay in software projects,
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provides step-by-step information about which methods to use at
various stages during the development life cycle, and
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offers information on the unique issues relating to informational
usability.
You do not need to have previous knowledge of usability to implement
the methods provided, yet all of the latest research is covered.
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| Preface Audience Teaching Usability Engineering Acknowledgments
Ch. 1. Executive Summary
Ch. 2. What Is Usability? Ch. 3. Generations of User Interfaces Ch. 4. The Usability Engineering Lifecycle Ch. 5. Usability Heuristics Ch. 6. Usability Testing Ch. 7. Usability Assessment Methods beyond Testing Ch. 8. Interface Standards Ch. 9. International User Interfaces Ch. 10. Future Developments
Appendix A: Exercises
Appendix B: Bibliography Author Index
Subject Index |
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Jakob
Nielsen is Distinguished Engineer for Strategic Technology at
SunSoft (the software planet of Sun Microsystems). His main project
is defining the next generation of strongly object-oriented user
interfaces. He is also designing the user interface for Sun's next
generation of online documentation and working on enhancing the
maturity level of current usability engineering methodology. Nielsen
coined the term "discount usability engineering" and has invented
several usability techniques for fast and cheap improvements of
user interfaces, including heuristic evaluation.
He is the author of the best-selling books Hypertext and Hypermedia
(second edition to be published by Academic Press in January 1995
under the title Multimedia and Hypertext: The Internet and Beyond)
and Usability Engineering and co-editor (with R. L. Mack)
of the new definitive work Usability Inspection Methods.
Dr. Nielsen's earlier affiliations include Bellcore, the Technical
University of Denmark, and the IBM User Interface Institute.
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The
author, Jakob Nielsen , March 31, 1998
Detailed TOC online
The basic philosophy of the book is YOU CAN DO IT! It is about cheap
and fast methods that anybody can use in any interface design project
(whether Web design, software design, or gadget design) to drastically
improve usability. It is quite common to be able to cut users' learning
time in half (thus cutting your training budget or support center
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