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User-Centered Design

A Developer's Guide to Building User-Friendly Applications

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Book Details:

Publisher:O'Reilly Media
Series: OReilly , Developer's Guide
Author:Travis Lowdermilk
Edition:1
ISBN-10:1449359809
ISBN-13:9781449359805
Pages:154
Published:Apr 11 2013
Posted:Nov 19 2014
Language:English
Book format:PDF
Book size:17 MB

Book Description:

How do you design engaging applications that people love to use? This book demonstrates several ways to include valuable input from potential clients and customers throughout the process. With practical guidelines and insights from his own experience, author Travis Lowdermilk shows you how usability and user-centered design will dramatically change the way people interact with your application. Learn valuable strategies for conducting each stage of the design processfrom interviewing likely users and discovering your application's purpose to creating a rich user experience with sound design principles. User-Centered Design is invaluable no matter what platform you use or audience you target. Explore usability and how it relates to user-centered design Learn how to deal with users and their unique personalities Clarify your application's purpose, using a simple narrative to describe its use Plan your project's development with a software development life cycle Be creative within the context of your user experience goals Use visibility, consistency, and other design principles to enhance user experience Collect valuable user feedback on your prototype with surveys, interviews, and usability studies

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