Designing Highly Useable Software

Explores the world of programming, showing how various aspects of the work is implicated in the usability of the final product. This book includes examples drawn from both inside and outside the technical world. It also includes an appendix that provides information on standards, usability groups, and sources for more information.

List of contents

Introduction.
Part I Keeping It Simple.
Chapter 1: The UUI: The Useable User Interface.
Chapter 2: Modeling the Real World.
Chapter 3: Laying Out Your Windows and Dialog Boxes.
Chapter 4: Managing Your Software?s Time.
Chapter 5: Highly Navigable Software.
Chapter 6: Data, Reports, and Printouts.
Chapter 7: Adding a Web Interface.
Part II The Lonely Engineer.
Chapter 8: Under the Hood.
Chapter 9: When Your Software Starts, Stops, or Dies a Quick Death.
Chapter 10: Modularity and Libraries.
Chapter 11: Object-Oriented Pontificating.
Part III The Business of It All: It?s ?Dollars and Sense?.
Chapter 12: A Very Gross National Product: Business and Software Problems.
Chapter 13: Testing, Testing, Testing.
Chapter 14: Installing, Training, and Helping.
Chapter 15: Book in a Book: A Guide for Programming Bosses.
Appendix A: Software Design Resources.

Product details

• Authors: Jeff Cogswell, Jeffrey Cogswell, Jeffrey M. Cogswell
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.02.2004
• EAN: 9780782143010
• ISBN: 978-0-7821-4301-0
• No. of pages: 368
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > Programming languages; Programm, Programmierung (EDV)