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February 24, 2016
On this day in 1582, Pope Gregory XIII announced the new Gregorian calendar—it took a while to be adopted, but became the calendar we use to this very day. Why mess with the calendar at all? To make it better: more consistent, more convenient, ultimately easier to use.
Ease of use, and designing to maximize ease of use, aren't new concepts at all. But they are maybe more important in the digital age than in any age before, because we can make software do anything. How do you know if you're doing it right?
Designed for Use, Second Edition: Create Usable Interfaces for Applications and the Web will show you how. Now available in beta from pragprog.com/book/lmuse2.
Designed for Use, Second Edition: Create Usable Interfaces for Applications and the Web
Interaction design - the way the apps on our phones work, the way we enter a destination into our car's GPS - is becoming more and more important. Identify and fix bad software design by making usability the cornerstone of your design process.
Weaving together hands-on techniques and fundamental concepts, each technique chapter explains a specific approach you can use to make your product more user friendly, such as storyboarding, usability tests, and paper prototyping. Idea chapters are concept-based: how to write usable text, how realistic your designs should look, when to use animations. This new edition is updated and expanded with new chapters covering requirements gathering, how the design of data structures influences the user interface, and how to do design work as a team. Through copious illustrations and supporting psychological research, expert developer and user interface designer Lukas Mathis gives you a deep dive into research, design, and implementation—the essential stages in designing usable interfaces for applications and websites.
Lukas inspires you to look at design in a whole new way, explaining exactly what to look for - and what to avoid - in creating products that get people excited.
Now available in beta from pragprog.com/book/lmuse2.
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