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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
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Chapter Two Principles
Chapter Eight Creating Visions Biased to Your Solution
Chapter Nine Selling When You re Not First
Chapter Eleven Gaining Access to People with Power
Appendix A Value Justification Example
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA): Concepts, Technology, and Design
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Service modeling guidelines
Service interface design tools
Considerations for choosing service layers
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Web Forms User Controls
Working with Images in ASP.NET
Index
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Running Operating System Commands
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