Designing the User Interface: Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction (5th Edition) |
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The much-anticipated fifth edition of Designing the User Interface provides a comprehensive, authoritative introduction to the dynamic field of human-computer interaction (HCI). Students and professionals learn practical principles and guidelines needed to develop high quality interface designs--ones that users can understand, predict, and control. It covers theoretical foundations, and design processes such as expert reviews and usability testing. Numerous examples of direct manipulation, menu selection, and form fill-in give readers an understanding of excellence in design The new edition provides updates on current HCI topics with balanced emphasis on mobile devices, Web, and desktop platforms. It addresses the profound changes brought by user-generated content of text, photo, music, and video and the raised expectations for compelling user experiences.
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Customer Reviews:
• Used In Doctorate Studies
29 June, 2009
Good insight into how to make complex software applications usable. It is also a good look at common mistakes that make good products useless to potential users.
- Amazon Customer Review
• Excellent Textbook For Undergraduate And Graduate Hci Students!
13 September, 2009
As a Human-Computer Interaction University Associate Professor I was delighted with the new edition of Designing the User Interface: Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction (5th Edition).
It was entirely renewed and fully updated.
I have shared this textbook with my HCI undergraduate and graduate HCI students this semester and they liked it a lot and found it touches well and thoroughly current HCI issues!
Ben Shneiderman and Catherine Plaisant present and discuss timely most key HCI theories, concepts, ideas and applications.
I strongly recommend this book for academic and professional HCI courses.
- Amazon Customer Review
• A Must Have For Any Hci Curious
14 January, 2010
This book is a must have for any person interested in HCI (Human-Computer Interaction). It constitutes a good introduction and also contains hips of useful tips. I would recommend it for any HCI researcher, designer and/or programmer. It's easy to read, enjoyable since its referrring to a very large number of recent user interfaces. It presents key ideas for designing effective user interfaces for different populations of users. I particularly enjoyed the large number of examples presented and the wide coverage of topics. Well worth the buy!
- Amazon Customer Review
• A Great Book!
05 December, 2009
The 5th edition thoroughly updates and improves this valuable resource for students, professionals, and researchers interested in human-computer interaction. The presentation's coherent depth and breadth clarify how the interface mediates our access to information, and the need to match its design to our cognitive and perceptual capabilities. I was especially pleased that my colleagues Shneiderman and Plaisant included a chapter on information visualization also providing a rich list of references on this and other related fields. They make a convincing case for development of new information visualization evaluation tools. The 5th symphony, I meant edition, made me better aware of how mobile devices are changing our world and of the increasing power of YouTube, flickr and other social media. This is a great book!
- Amazon Customer Review
• Over 20 Years Of Designing The User Interface
08 May, 2009
Impressively, my colleagues Ben Shneiderman and Catherine Plaisant have published the 5th edition of the text Designing the User Interface. There aren't many focused professional activities that one can pursue for over 20 years, but Ben & and now Catherine & have sustained, and actually increased their energy in this one. This nearly 600 page full-color book is an excellent way to learn about the field of Human-Computer Interaction, and to see the lay of the land from both researcher and practitioner perspectives.
The book explains the core issues in designing usable, useful, efficient and appealing user interfaces. It illustrates the issues with numerous current screenshots of websites, applications, devices, and broad contexts of use. It offers guidelines backed by research, and it explains the theory in lay terms so the guidelines make sense.
Covering just about every major HCI topic, from basic usability and design processes to design for mobile and social environments, this book offers a very broad summary of the field. It also introduces more advanced topics such as search interfaces and information visualization among others â" giving readers entry points into important trends.
With deep references, and access to sample quizzes and PowerPoint slides online, I strongly recommend this book to HCI instructors, students, and professionals new to the field. Congratulations to Ben and Catherine for continuing to support this field and educate the next generation of software designers and developers.
- Amazon Customer Review
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