User Center Design (Photocopy Version)

Author: (USA) Felsenberg, (USA) Evans, (USA) Reggia (Compiler)
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Publish Date: 2003-08-01
Features: This book takes the user's perception and experience of the final product or system as the starting point for design methodology. The products involved range from database software to speech recognition software, and have been validated in numerous projects (including healthcare, finance, aviation, insurance, automotive manufacturing, and retail industries). The content includes: a complete cyclical methodology for UCD that can bring breakthrough gains; evaluation and institutional assessment of existing products to make them applicable to UCD methods; improving user comfort perception; applying UCD in software design, hardware design, website development, and services in extensible/adaptive application environments; predicting current UCD optimization trends and future factors influencing product design. This book is suitable for courses on computer system user interface design, human-computer engineering, and system design.
Author Bio: KAREL VREDENBURG, Architect and Corporate Champion of User-Centered Design at IBM, led the creation of the integrated version of UCD presented in this book.