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Zusammenfassung Combining breadth! depth! and practical applications! this book takes a time-tested process-and-guidelines approach that provides readers with actionable methods and techniques while retaining a firm grounding in human-computer interaction (HCI) concepts and theory.
List of contents
Chapter 1: IntroductionPart I: ProcessChapter 2: The Wheel: A Lifecycle TemplateChapter 3: Contextual Inquiry: Eliciting Work Activity DataChapter 4: Contextual Analysis: Consolidating and Interpreting Work Activity DataChapter 5: Extracting Interaction Design RequirementsChapter 6: Constructing Design-Informing ModelsChapter 7: Design Thinking, Ideation and SketchingChapter 8: Mental Models and Conceptual DesignChapter 9: Design ProductionChapter 10: UX Goals, Metrics and TargetsChapter 11: PrototypingChapter 12: UX Evaulation IntroductionChapter 13: Rapid Evaluation MethodsChapter 14: Rigorous Empirical Evaluation: PreparationChapter 15: Rigorous Empirical Evaluation: Running the SessionChapter 16: Rigorous Empirical Evaluation: AnalysisChapter 17: Evaluation ReportingChapter 18: Wrapping up Rigorous UX EvaluationChapter 19: UX Methods for Agile DevelopmentPart II: Design Infrastructure GuidelinesChapter 20: Affordances DemystifiedChapter 21: The Interaction Cycle and the User Action FrameworkChapter 22: UX Design GuidelinesPart III: Advanced TopicsChapter 23: Connections with Software EngineeringChapter 24: Making it Work in the Real WorldReferencesExercisesIndex
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