Graphical User Interface Design and Evaluation Guide - Softcover

Redmond-Pyle, David; Moore, Alan

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9780133151930: Graphical User Interface Design and Evaluation Guide

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ISBN 10: 013315193X ISBN 13: 9780133151930

Publisher: Prentice Hall, 1995

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This title describes a design process which can be used by practitioners in busy commercial environments called GUIDE - Graphical User Interface Design and Evaluation. It contains techniques (usability requirement specification, task modelling, object modelling, style guide definition, GUI design, prototyping, and evaluation), integrated together into a coherent framework. Tha material is intended for professional software developers. The book has been written by developers for developers and is designed to be user-centred in it's description of the development process. It also features the technique of user object modelling and shows how this is integrated with task analysis and GUI design.

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Written from the point of view of software systems developers, this guide describes the process for designing and evaluating the graphical user interface (GUI) to computer application software. Defines a comprehensive user-interface design process, showing how complementary techniques can be used together. Shows how task analysis can be used in conjunction with user object modeling to create a user-centered application model. Offers a coherent and practical approach to the design of the users mental model. For software systems developers, specifically systems analysts, designers, and programmers who wish to develop GUI systems.

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