Interfacedesign & Usability

The essential interaction design guide, fully revised and updated for the mobile age

About Face: The Essentials of Interaction Design, Fourth Edition is the latest update to the book that shaped and evolved the landscape of interaction design. This comprehensive guide takes the worldwide shift to smartphones and tablets into account. New information includes discussions on mobile apps, touch interfaces, screen size considerations,

Introduction xvii

Part One 1

Chapter One Functional 3

The three keys to functionality 5

From click to conversion: making sure the buttons work 6

Browser wars, hardware headaches 7

Don’t sweat the home page. Fine-tune your forms 8

Four keys to creating functional forms 9

Required fields 9

The essential interaction design guide, fully revised and updated for the mobile age

About Face: The Essentials of Interaction Design, Fourth Edition is the latest update to the book that shaped and evolved the landscape of interaction design. This comprehensive guide takes the worldwide shift to smartphones and tablets into account. New information includes discussions on mobile apps, touch interfaces, screen size considerations,

This book presents a sensible and highly effective alternative: it teaches you to build and use your own truly automated tool. The procedure you'll learn is suitable for virtually any development environment, and the tool allows you to store your test data and verification standard separately, so you can build it once and use it for other GUIs. M

Erfolgreich - und ohne verrückt zu werden - mit Stakeholdern kommunizieren

• Erprobtes Know-how zu einem Frustthema im Designer-Alltag


• Wertvolle Tipps, Use Cases und Argumentationsbeispiele


• Mit besseren Kommunikationsskills zu bestmöglichen Designentscheidungen

Wie gut Ihr Design auch sein mag: Ohne die Unterstützung von Nicht-Designerkollegen, Stakeholdern und Kunden werden aus Ihren Entwürfen niemals Produkt

Acknowledgments xi

Foreword xxix

Preface to the Second Edition xxxiii

Part One Usability Testing: An Overview

Chapter 1 What Makes Something Usable? 3

What Do We Mean by ‘‘Usable’’? 4

What Makes Something Less Usable? 6

WhatMakes Products MoreUsable? 12

What Are Techniques for Building in Usability?

Erfolgreich - und ohne verrückt zu werden - mit Stakeholdern kommunizieren

• Erprobtes Know-how zu einem Frustthema im Designer-Alltag


• Wertvolle Tipps, Use Cases und Argumentationsbeispiele


• Mit besseren Kommunikationsskills zu bestmöglichen Designentscheidungen

Wie gut Ihr Design auch sein mag: Ohne die Unterstützung von Nicht-Designerkollegen, Stakeholdern und Kunden werden aus Ihren Entwürfen niemals Produkt

Foreword xi

Introduction xiii

Evil designs and their virtuous counterparts xiii

Pride 1

Misplaced pride causes cognitive dissonance 1

Provide reasons for people to use 3

Social proof: Using messages from friends to make it personal and emotional 5

Dispel doubt by repeating positive messages 7

Personal messages hit home

Acknowledgments xi

Foreword xxix

Preface to the Second Edition xxxiii

Part One Usability Testing: An Overview

Chapter 1 What Makes Something Usable? 3

What Do We Mean by ‘‘Usable’’? 4

What Makes Something Less Usable? 6

WhatMakes Products MoreUsable? 12

What Are Techniques for Building in Usability?

Introduction  1

Part I: Getting Started with GameMaker: Studio  5

Chapter 1: Introducing GameMaker: Studio 7

Chapter 2: Discovering GameMaker: Studio Features and Tools 13

Part II: Basic Tools and Techniques  31

Chapter 3: Creating Events 33

Chapter 4: Adding Actions to Events 47

Chapter 5: Working with Views 77Weiterlesen