Coordinating User Interfaces for Consistency
5/5
()
About this ebook
In the years since Jakob Nielsen's classic collection on interface consistency first appeared, much has changed, and much has stayed the same. On the one hand, there's been exponential growth in the opportunities for following or disregarding the principles of interface consistency-more computers, more applications, more users, and of course the vast expanse of the Web. On the other, there are the principles themselves, as persistent and as valuable as ever.
In these contributed chapters, you'll find details on many methods for seeking and enforcing consistency, along with bottom-line analyses of its benefits and some warnings about its possible dangers. Most of what you'll learn applies equally to hardware and software development, and all of it holds real benefits for both your organization and your users.
- Begins with a new preface by the collection's distinguished editor
- Details a variety of methods for attaining interface consistency, including central control, user definitions, exemplary applications, shared code, and model analysis
- Presents a cost-benefits analysis of organizational efforts to promote and achieve consistency
- Examines and appraises the dimensions of consistency-consistency within an application, across a family of applications, and beyond
- Makes the case for some unexpected benefits of interface consistency while helping you avoid the risks it can sometimes entail
- Considers the consistency of interface elements other than screen design
- Includes case studies of major corporations that have instituted programs to ensure the consistency of their products
Jakob Nielsen
Called the world's leading expert on Web usability by US News and World Report, Jakob Nielsen today serves as user advocate and principal of the Nielsen Norman Group. In the course of a career in which he held influential positions at Sun Microsystems, Bellcore, and IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center, Nielsen founded the "discount usability engineering" movement for fast and cheap improvements of user interfaces and invented several usability methods, including heuristic evaluation. He holds 58 US patents, many of which focus on ways to make the Internet easier to use. He has written the Alertbox column on Web usability since 1995 and is the author of Designing Web Usability: The Practice of Simplicity and Usability Engineering, plus eight other books.
Related to Coordinating User Interfaces for Consistency
Related ebooks
Contextual Design: Design for Life Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Agile User Experience Design: A Practitioner’s Guide to Making It Work Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMultiscreen UX Design: Developing for a Multitude of Devices Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBrave NUI World: Designing Natural User Interfaces for Touch and Gesture Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Rapid Contextual Design: A How-to Guide to Key Techniques for User-Centered Design Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Conversations with Things: UX Design for Chat and Voice Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Summary of Leah Buley's The User Experience Team of One Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Measuring the User Experience: Collecting, Analyzing, and Presenting Usability Metrics Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5UX Simplified: Models & Methodologies Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Bridging UX and Web Development: Better Results through Team Integration Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsModerating Usability Tests: Principles and Practices for Interacting Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Mobile Frontier: A Guide for Designing Mobile Experiences Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A Web for Everyone: Designing Accessible User Experiences Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Living in Information: Responsible Design for Digital Places Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Smart Things: Ubiquitous Computing User Experience Design Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5UX: Essential Tools Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWhy We Fail: Learning from Experience Design Failures Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Content Everywhere: Strategy and Structure For Future-Ready Content Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Usability Engineering: Scenario-Based Development of Human-Computer Interaction Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5UX for Developers: How to Integrate User-Centered Design Principles Into Your Day-to-Day Development Work Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWriting for Interaction: Crafting the Information Experience for Web and Software Apps Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Thinking about Digital Accessibility: Stumbling Blocks and Steppingstones in Design and Development Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWeb Application Design Handbook: Best Practices for Web-Based Software Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Basics of User Experience Design by Interaction Design Foundation Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Usability Engineering Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5User Experience Re-Mastered: Your Guide to Getting the Right Design Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsUser Research A Complete Guide - 2021 Edition Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPaper Prototyping: The Fast and Easy Way to Design and Refine User Interfaces Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5UX Tools Complete Self-Assessment Guide Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Computers For You
Slenderman: Online Obsession, Mental Illness, and the Violent Crime of Two Midwestern Girls Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5How to Create Cpn Numbers the Right way: A Step by Step Guide to Creating cpn Numbers Legally Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Invisible Rainbow: A History of Electricity and Life Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Elon Musk Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Standard Deviations: Flawed Assumptions, Tortured Data, and Other Ways to Lie with Statistics Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5SQL QuickStart Guide: The Simplified Beginner's Guide to Managing, Analyzing, and Manipulating Data With SQL Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The ChatGPT Millionaire Handbook: Make Money Online With the Power of AI Technology Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings101 Awesome Builds: Minecraft® Secrets from the World's Greatest Crafters Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Professional Voiceover Handbook: Voiceover training, #1 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Mastering ChatGPT: 21 Prompts Templates for Effortless Writing Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Grokking Algorithms: An illustrated guide for programmers and other curious people Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Procreate for Beginners: Introduction to Procreate for Drawing and Illustrating on the iPad Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCompTIA IT Fundamentals (ITF+) Study Guide: Exam FC0-U61 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDark Aeon: Transhumanism and the War Against Humanity Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Alan Turing: The Enigma: The Book That Inspired the Film The Imitation Game - Updated Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5CompTIA Security+ Practice Questions Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5The Mega Box: The Ultimate Guide to the Best Free Resources on the Internet Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5ChatGPT Ultimate User Guide - How to Make Money Online Faster and More Precise Using AI Technology Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPractical Lock Picking: A Physical Penetration Tester's Training Guide Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Creating Online Courses with ChatGPT | A Step-by-Step Guide with Prompt Templates Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ultimate Guide to Mastering Command Blocks!: Minecraft Keys to Unlocking Secret Commands Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Reviews for Coordinating User Interfaces for Consistency
2 ratings0 reviews