内容简介

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 process - from 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

作品目录

Chapter 1 Our World Has Changed

Chapter 2 What Is User-Centered Design?

UCD Is Not Usability

UCD Is Not Subjective

UCD Is Not Just Design

UCD Is Not a Waste of Time or Money

UCD Is Not a Bug Report

UCD Is Not a Distraction

Chapter 3 Working with Users

What If I Don’t Have Access to Users?

Dealing with Different Types of Users

Dealing with Negativity

Chapter 4 Having a Plan

How Do I Know Which Plan Is Right for Me?

Creating a Team Mission Statement

Defining Your Project

Collecting User Requirements

Creating Functional Requirements

Documenting Data and Workflow Models

Documenting Prototypes

Reviewing Your Documentation

Chapter 5 Creating a Personal Manifesto

Exercising Restraint

Building a Narrative

Creating Personas

Creating Scenarios

Chapter 6 Creativity and User Experience

Having User-Experience Goals

Creativity Requires Courage and Hard Work

Creativity Requires Questioning

Chapter 7 Design Principles

Principle of Proximity (Gestalt Principle)

Visibility, Visual Feedback, and Visual Prominence

Hierarchy

Mental Models and Metaphors

Chapter 8 Gathering Feedback

How Many Users Will I Need?

Surveys

Conducting Interviews

Task Analysis

Heuristic Evaluation

Storyboarding

Using Prototypes

A/B Testing

Chapter 9 Usability Studies

What Are Usability Studies?

Creating a Testing Plan

What You’ll Need

Conducting the Study

Don’t Hesitate to Practice

Compiling Your Findings

Chapter 10 You’re Never Finished

It’s Impossible to Get It Right the First Time

Be Prepared to Reboot

Final Thoughts

Chapter 11 Other Resources

Twitter

Tools for Prototyping

Websites

Appendix Sample Project Template

Template

Project Title

Example Persona

Sample Script for a Usability Study

Appendix References

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