Usability Engineering: Scenario-Based Development of Human-Computer Interaction
Published 20 October 2001
Mary Beth Rosson, John M. Carroll
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This book focuses on the realities of product development, showing how user interaction scenarios can make usability practices an integral part of interactive system development.
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Usability Engineering: Scenario-Based Development of Human-Computer Interaction is a radical departure from traditional books that emphasize theory and address experts. This book focuses on the realities of product development, showing how user interaction scenarios can make usability practices an integral part of interactive system development. As you'll learn, usability engineering is not the application of inflexible rules; it's a process of analysis, prototyping, and problem solving in which you evaluate tradeoffs, make reasoned decisions, and maximize the overall value of your product.
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