User-Centered Design

User-Centered Design
Author: Travis Lowdermilk
Publisher: "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
Total Pages: 155
Release: 2013-05-15
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1449359809

Looks at the application design process, describing how to create user-friendly applications.

User-Centered Design Stories

User-Centered Design Stories
Author: Carol Righi
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 688
Release: 2010-07-27
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0080481558

User-Centered Design Stories is the first user-centered design casebook with cases covering the key tasks and issues facing UCD practitioners today. Intended for both students and practitioners, this book follows the Harvard Case study method, where the reader is placed in the role of the decision-maker in a real-life professional situation. In this book, the reader is asked to analyze dozens of UCD work situations and propose solutions for the problem set. The problems posed in the cases cover a wide variety of key tasks and issues faced by practitioners, including those related to organizational/managerial topics, UCD methods and processes, and technical/ project issues. The benefit of the casebook and its organization is that it offers new practitioners (as well as experienced practitioners working in new settings) valuable practice in decision-making that cannot be obtained by simply reading a book or attending a seminar. - The first User-Centered Design Casebook, with cases covering the key tasks and issues facing UCD practitioners today. - Each chapter based on real world cases with complex problems, giving readers as close to a real-world experience as possible. - Offers "the things you don't learn in school," such as innovative and hybrid solutions that were actually used on the problems discussed.

User Centered System Design

User Centered System Design
Author: Donald A. Norman
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 526
Release: 2018-04-30
Genre: Human engineering
ISBN: 9781138432932

This comprehensive volume is the product of an intensive collaborative effort among researchers across the United States, Europe and Japan. The result -- a change in the way we think of humans and computers.

Fundamentals of User-Centered Design

Fundamentals of User-Centered Design
Author: Brian Still
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 395
Release: 2017-08-25
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1498764398

There has been some solid work done in the area of User-Centered Design (UCD) over the last few years. What’s been missing is an in-depth, comprehensive textbook that connects UCD to usability and User Experience (UX) principles and practices. This new textbook discusses a theoretical framework in relation to other design theories. It provides a repeatable, practical process for implementation, offering numerous examples, methods, and case studies for support, and it emphasizes best practices in specific environments, including mobile and web applications, print products, as well as hardware.

Foundations for Designing User-Centered Systems

Foundations for Designing User-Centered Systems
Author: Frank E. Ritter
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 460
Release: 2014-04-11
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1447151348

Foundations for Designing User-Centered Systems introduces the fundamental human capabilities and characteristics that influence how people use interactive technologies. Organized into four main areas—anthropometrics, behaviour, cognition and social factors—it covers basic research and considers the practical implications of that research on system design. Applying what you learn from this book will help you to design interactive systems that are more usable, more useful and more effective. The authors have deliberately developed Foundations for Designing User-Centered Systems to appeal to system designers and developers, as well as to students who are taking courses in system design and HCI. The book reflects the authors’ backgrounds in computer science, cognitive science, psychology and human factors. The material in the book is based on their collective experience which adds up to almost 90 years of working in academia and both with, and within, industry; covering domains that include aviation, consumer Internet, defense, eCommerce, enterprise system design, health care, and industrial process control.

Interactive Design

Interactive Design
Author: Andy Pratt
Publisher: Rockport Pub
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2012-09-01
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1592537804

User experience design is one of the fastest-growing specialties in graphic design. Smart companies realize that the most successful products are designed to meet the needs and goals of real people—the users. This means putting the user at the center of the design process. This innovative, comprehensive book examines the user-centered design process from the perspective of a designer. With rich imagery, Interactive Design introduces the different UX players, outlines the user-centered design process from user research to user testing, and explains through various examples how user-centered design has been successfully integrated into the design process of a variety of design studios worldwide.

User-centered Web Design

User-centered Web Design
Author: John Cato
Publisher: Pearson Education
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2001
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9780201398601

In this unique, refreshing look at design, Cato questions the usefulness behind commonly used methods to encourage user-friendly solutions and to promote more effective management of multimedia projects.

User-centered Design

User-centered Design
Author: Karel Vredenburg
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2002
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9780130912954

User-Centered Design: An Integrated Approach will help you optimize your customers' total experience with any technology product or service - from purchase and installation through support, upgrades, and beyond. Karel Vredenburg, Scott Isensee, and Carol Righi, the field's leading experts, present methods, techniques, case studies, and CD-ROM-based tools for introducing, deploying, and optimizing UCD to make products that are simpler, more elegant, more powerful, and more profitable.

Designing for Situation Awareness

Designing for Situation Awareness
Author: Mica Endsley
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 393
Release: 2016-04-19
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1420063588

The barrage of data overload is threatening the ability of people to effectively operate in a wide range of systems including aircraft cockpits and ground control stations, military command and control centers, intelligence operations, emergency management, medical systems, air traffic control centers, automobiles, financial and business manag

Designing for Situation Awareness

Designing for Situation Awareness
Author: Mica R. Endsley
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2003-07-17
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9780748409662

Enhancing Situation Awareness (SA) is a major design goal for projects in many fields, including aviation, ground transportation, air traffic control, nuclear power, and medicine, but little information exists in an integral format to support this goal. Designing for Situation Awareness helps designers understand how people acquire and interpret information in complex settings and recognize the factors that undermine this process. Designing to support operator SA reduces the incidence of human error, which has been found to occur largely due to failures in SA. Whereas many previous human factors efforts have focused on design at the perceptual and surface feature level, SA-oriented design focuses on the operator's information needs and cognitive processes as they juggle to integrate information from many sources and achieve multiple competing goals. Thus it addresses design from a system's perspective. By applying theoretical and empirical information on SA to the system design process, human factors practitioners can create designs to support SA across a wide variety of domains and design issues. This book serves as a helpful reference to that end.