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Usable Usability

Simple Steps for Making Stuff Better

Paperback

Published: 15th June 2012
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RRP $47.95
$43.95

The A-to-Z guide to spotting and fixing usability problems

Frustrated by pop-ups? Forms that make you start over if you miss a field? Nonsensical error messages? You're not alone! This book helps you simply get it right the first time (or fix what's broken). Boasting a full-color interior packed with design and layout examples, this book teaches you how to understand a user's needs, divulges techniques for exceeding a user's expectations, and provides a host of hard won advice for improving the overall quality of a user's experience. World-renowned UX guru Eric Reiss shares his knowledge from decades of experience making products useable for everyone...all in an engaging, easy-to-apply manner.

  • Reveals proven tools that simply make products better, from the users' perspective
  • Provides simple guidelines and checklists to help you evaluate and improve your own products
  • Zeroes in on essential elements to consider when planning a product, such as its functionality and responsiveness, whether or not it is ergonomic, making it foolproof, and more
  • Addresses considerations for product clarity, including its visibility, understandability, logicalness, consistency, and predictability

Usable Usability walks you through numerous techniques that will help ensure happy customers and successful products!

I Ease of Use.

1 Functional.

2 Responsiveness.

3 Ergonomics.

4 Convenient.

5 Foolproof.

II Elegance and Clarity.

6 Visible.

7 Understandable.

8 Logical.

9 Consistent.

10 Predictable.

11 Next Steps.

Bibliography.

Index.

ISBN: 9781118185476
ISBN-10: 1118185471
Audience: General
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 256
Published: 15th June 2012
Dimensions (cm): 23.37 x 19.05  x 1.52
Weight (kg): 0.582