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
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2004
Pages: 81
Pages: 81
Authors: Robert Hoekman Jr.
- 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
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2004
Pages: 81
Pages: 81
Authors: Robert Hoekman Jr.