Making Use: Scenario-Based Design of Human-Computer Interactions
Scenario-Based Design of Human-Computer Interactions
$70.86
- Paperback
382 pages
- Release Date
1 January 2003
Summary
Difficult to learn and awkward to use, today’s information systems often change our activities in ways that we do not need or want. The problem lies in the software development process. In this book John Carroll shows how a pervasive but underused element of design practice, the scenario, can transform information systems design. Traditional textbook approaches manage the complexity of the design process via abstraction, treating design problems as if they were composites of puzzles. Scenario…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262513883 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262513889 |
| Author: | John M. Carroll |
| Publisher: | Mit Press |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 382 |
| Release Date: | 1 January 2003 |
| Weight: | 513g |
| Dimensions: | 20mm x 152mm x 229mm |
| Series: | Making Use |
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Critics Review
“Carroll draws on an impressively large body of research to present the mostthorough treatment yet of a powerful idea: employing scenarios to make sureuser interfaces are designed for the way people actually use things.How much easier the world would be if everybody followed his advice.”–Jakob Nielsen, Co-Founder, Nielsen Norman Group, and author of DesigningWeb Usability: The Practice of Simplicity
About The Author
John M. Carroll
John M. Carroll is a professor in the School of Information Sciences and Technology at Penn State University, University Park, PA. He has been elected into the CHI Academy by The Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (ACM SIGCHI) in recognition of his outstanding leadership and service in the field of computer-human interaction.
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