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Designing the Obvious: A Common Sense Approach to Web Application Design
Designing the Obvious: A Common Sense Approach to Web Application Design
ISBN: 032145345X
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2004
Pages: 81
Authors:
Robert Hoekman Jr.
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Designing the Obvious: A Common Sense Approach to Web Application Design
Table of Contents
Copyright
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1. Defining the Obvious
What Is the Obvious ?
How Do You Design the Obvious?
The Framework for Obvious Design
Chapter 2. Understand Users, Then Ignore Them
Understand How Users Think They Do Things
Understand How Users Actually Do Things
Know How to Uncover Reality
Design for the Activity
Write Use Cases
Chapter 3. Build Only What Is Absolutely Necessary
More Features, More Frustration
Think Different
Drop Nice-to-Have Features
Chapter 4. Support the User s Mental Model
Understanding Mental Models
Design for Mental Models
Eliminate Implementation Models
Prototype the Design
Test It Out
Chapter 5. Turn Beginners Into Intermediates, Immediately
Use Up-to-Speed Aids
Choose Good Defaults
Design for Information
Stop Getting Up to Speed and Speed Things Up
Provide Help Documents, Because Help Is for Experts
Chapter 6. Handle Errors Wisely
Prevent and Catch Errors with Poka-yoke Devices
Ditch Anything Modal
Write Error Messages That Help Instead of Hurt
Create Forgiving Software
Chapter 7. Design for Uniformity, Consistency, and Meaning
Design for Uniformity
Be Consistent Across Applications
Leverage Irregularity to Create Meaning and Importance
Chapter 8. Reduce and Refine
Cluttered Task Flows
Clean Up the Mess
Practice Kaizen
Eliminate Waste
Put Just-In-Time Design and Review To Work
Chapter 9. Don t Innovate When You Can Elevate
Innovation
The problem with innovative thinking
Elevation
Elevate the User Experience
Seek Out and Learn from Great Examples
Elevate the Standards
Take Out All the Good Lines
Get in the Game
Index
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Designing the Obvious: A Common Sense Approach to Web Application Design
ISBN: 032145345X
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2004
Pages: 81
Authors:
Robert Hoekman Jr.
BUY ON AMAZON
Project Management JumpStart
Breaking Down the Project Activities
Planning and Acquiring Resources
Closing the Books
Appendix B Sample Project Management Forms
Appendix C Sample Project Management Checklists
Data Structures and Algorithms in Java
Vocabulary
Best, Worst, and Average Case
Projects
Strings and StringBuilders
Disjoint Set Clusters
Lotus Notes Developers Toolbox: Tips for Rapid and Successful Deployment
Launching the Designer Client
Links to developerWorks
Working with Views
How to Add Text to a Rich Text Object
Archiving Data Using an Agent
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA): Concepts, Technology, and Design
Common tangible benefits of SOA
The Evolution of SOA
Part II: SOA and WS-* Extensions
Application service design (a step-by-step process)
Integration considerations
Cisco ASA: All-in-One Firewall, IPS, and VPN Adaptive Security Appliance
System Maintenance
Defining an Authentication Server
Security Contexts
Adaptive Inspection Prevention Security Services Module Overview (AIP-SSM)
WebVPN
Programming .Net Windows Applications
Dialog Boxes
Text Controls
Data Reader
Bugs Versus Exceptions
Debugging in Visual Studio .NET
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