Designed for Use: Create Usable Interfaces for Applications and the Web

Interaction design--the way the apps on our phones work, the way we enter a destination into our car's GPS--is becoming more and more important. Identify and fix bad software design by making usability the cornerstone of your design process. Lukas weaves together hands-on techniques and fundamental concepts. Each technique chapter explains a specific approach you can use to make your product more user friendly, such as storyboarding, usability tests, and paper prototyping. Idea chapters are concept-based: how to write usable text, how realistic your designs should look, when to use animations. This new edition is updated and expanded with new chapters covering requirements gathering, how the design of data structures influences the user interface, and how to do design work as a team. Through copious illustrations and supporting psychological research, expert developer and user interface designer Lukas Mathis gives you a deep dive into research, design, and implementation—the essential stages in designing usable interfaces for applications and websites--Publisher's description.

• | Author: Lukas Mathis
• | Publisher: Pragmatic Bookshelf
• | Publication Date: May 03, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 340 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1680501607
• | ISBN-13: 9781680501605