User-Centered Design: A Developer’s Guide to Building User-Friendly Applications

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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 designLearn how to deal with users and their unique personalitiesClarify your application’s purpose, using a simple narrative to describe its usePlan your project’s development with a software development life cycleBe creative within the context of your user experience goalsUse visibility, consistency, and other design principles to enhance user experienceCollect valuable user feedback on your prototype with surveys, interviews, and usability studies

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00C3NX1BW
Publisher ‏ : ‎ O’Reilly Media; 1st edition (March 29, 2013)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 29, 2013
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 2863 KB
Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 211 pages