Handeld Usability

Offering an overview of usability, testing, and information architecture for EPOC, WAP, PDAs, handhelds, and handsets, this how-to guide dives into the details about medium-specific issues and design strategies. Discusses designing for the current wirel...

 Funology From Usability to Enjoyment

This book reflects the move in Human Computer Interaction studies from standard usability concerns towards a wider set of problems to do with fun, enjoyment, aesthetics and the experience of use. Traditionally HCI has been concerned with work and tas...

 Prioritizing Web Usability

In 2000, Jakob Nielsen, the world's leading expert on Web usability, published a book that changed how people think about the Web-Designing Web Usability (New Riders). Many applauded. A few jeered. But everyone listened. The best-selling usability guru is...

 Access by Design A Guide to Universal Usability for Web Designers

In just over a decade, the Web has evolved from an experimental tool for a limited community of technically inclined people into a day-to-day necessity for millions upon millions of users. Today's Web designers must consider not only the content needs of ...

 Security and Usability Designing Secure Systems That People Can Use

Human factors and usability issues have traditionally played a limited role in security research and secure systems development. Security experts have largely ignored usability issues--both because they often failed to recognize the importance of human fa...

 Don't Make Me Think! A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability

Yesterday's Web looked far different from today's Web, and tomorrow's Web will look more different still. Amidst all of this change, however, one aspect of Web use remains the same: The sites that offer the best, easiest, most intuitive experience are the...

 Homepage Usability 50 Websites Deconstructed

Découvrez la --> version française--> de cet ouvrage paru aux Editions Eyrolles. The premise of this book is simple: examining the effectiveness of 50 top homepages, chosen for the popularity or prominence of the company, government agency, or non-profit...

 Flash 99% Good A Guide to Macromedia Flash Usability

Understand the delicate balance between design and functionality—from the perspective of today¿s leading Flash gurus—using this unique resource. Featuring a bold, four-color design, and covering information architecture, typography, animation,...

 Institutionalization of Usability A Step-by-Step Guide

At one time, computer hardware was the key differentiator in information technology-what gave an organization its competitive edge. Then, as hardware prices fell, software took center stage. Today, software has become a broadly shared commodity, and a new...

 Designing highly useable software

"Highly useable" software is easy to use. It does what you expect it to. And it does it well. It's not easy to build but as this book demonstrates, it's well worth the effort. Highly useable software is highly successful software--and everyone wins. Ins...

 The Flash Usability Guide Interacting with Flash MX

"Usability makes everything easier, except the job of the developer. Usability is not easy. There are no macros to run on Macromedia Flash projects to apply usability. Applying usability requires a change in the development process. It requires a new meth...

 Mobile usability How Nokia changed the face of the mobile phone

When it comes to delivering product design innovations to mobile device users, Nokia is the company against which all others are judged. Now, the philosophies and working methods by which Nokia revolutionized product usability are explained for the first ...

 Paper prototyping The fast and easy way to design and refine user interfaces

Do you spend a lot of time during the design process wondering what users really need? Do you hate those endless meetings where you argue how the interface should work? Have you ever developed something that later had to be completely redesigned? Paper P...