User Interface Design: A Software Engineering Perspective (Paperback)

Description:

For some software designers the interface is still seen as an add-on after the rest of the program has been written, while human-computer interaction specialists see programming as the final task.  This book bridges the gap between the communities by showing how to design screens in a systematic way so that they are easy to understand and support the under interface efficiently. 

Drawing on experience from programmers as well as usability specialists User Interface Design shows the student not only how to design an interface, but also how to make a fully functional interface ? putting theory into practice and highlighting the problems a designer faces when working in a real-world situation.

 

Table of Contents:

Preface

Part A: Best of the Classics
1.Usability
2. Prototyping and iterative design
3. Data presentation
4. Mental models and interface design

Part B: Systematic Interface Design
5. Analysis, visions and domain description
6. Virtual windows design
7. Function design
8. Prototypes and defect correction
9. Reflections on user interface design

Part C: Supplementary Design Issues
10. Web-based course rating
11. Designing an e-mail system
12. User documentation and support
13. More on usability testing
14. Heuristic evaluation
15. Systems development
16. Data modelling
17. Exercises
18. References 

Index