Learn IT - Books tags usability

E-Commerce Usability: Tools and Techniques to Perfect the On-Line Experience

CRC Press, 2002

We are all familiar with airport bookstall best sellers that promise fame, fortune and success in relationships. Many of them – at least the ones I have skimmed whilst waiting for one of the world’s favourite airlines – are deeply disappointing. Not because they do not work (to be honest I have not really been able to try them out...

Ubuntu Kung Fu: Tips, Tricks, Hints, and Hacks

Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2008

This book was born out of an experiment carried out when Ubuntu 6.06 was released in 2006. Back then Ubuntu was rougher around the edges than it is today. Getting MP3 files to play took some effort. Only a handful of wifi cards worked out of the box and the rest had to be wrangled into working.

So I wrote 25 tips to get Ubuntu working...

Sams Teach Yourself WPF in 24 Hours

Sams Publishing, 2008

Printed entirely in color, with helpful figures and syntax coloring to make code samples appear as they do in Visual Studio.

In just 24 sessions of one hour or less, you will be able to begin effectively using WPF to solve real-world problems, developing rich user...

Visual Design for the Modern Web

New Riders Publishing, 2007

Just as great artists must understand their tools, great Web designers must understand the technology behind their art. In Visual Design for the Web, author Penny McIntire shows novice Web designers how to use their tools--including HTML, CSS, and JavaScript--in conjunction with the principles of aesthetics and usability to become masters of their...

User Interface Design: A Software Engineering Perspective

Addison Wesley, 2005

When you design the user interface to a computer system, you decide which screens the system will show, what exactly will be in each screen and how it will look. You also decide what the user can click on and what happens when he does so, plus all the other details of the user interface. It is the designer’s responsibility that the system has...

Managing IT/Community Partnerships in the 21st Century

IGI Global, 2002

Universities are increasingly being asked to play a greater role in their communities. With the growth of the technology industry and the increasing importance of the Internet in education and everyday life, academic IT departments are beginning to form partnerships with both non-profit and for-profit organizations in the local community....

Engineering the User Interface: From Research to Practice

Springer, 2008

This book contains a collection of the best papers presented at the VII International Conference on Interacción Persona-Ordenador (IPO), Human-Computer Interaction in Spanish, which took place in Puertollano (Ciudad Real) on November 13th-17th, 2006. In its seventh edition this conference has become a multidisciplinary forum for the...

UML Xtra-Light: How to Specify Your Software Requirements

Cambridge University Press, 2002

The excellent idea of writing a lightweight book on the Unified Modeling Language (UML) wasn't ours, we admit. This idea originated from Milan's customers. Having taught more than a hundred courses and seminars on omponent approaches to software development and on UML over the past few years, he was repeatedly asked for 'UML made easy' for people...

EPSS Revisited: A Lifecycle for Developing Performance-Centered Systems

ISPI, 2003

EPSS Revisited is a compendium of articles gathered primarily from four special issues of ISPI's Performance Improvement (PI) journal between July 1999 and December 2002. These were issues for which I served as guest editor during a period when I was refining a performance-centered design...

Head First Web Design (A Brain Friendly Guide)

O'Reilly, 2009

Want to know how to make your pages look beautiful, communicate your message effectively, guide visitors through your website with ease, and get everything approved by the accessibility and usability police at the same time? Head First Web Design is your ticket to mastering all of these complex topics, and understanding what's really going...

Effective Prototyping with Excel: A practical handbook for developers and designers (Interactive Technologies)

Morgan Kaufmann, 2009

Although recognized as a key to the design process, prototyping often falls victim to budget cuts, deadlines, or lack of access to sophisticated tools. This can lead to sloppy and ineffective prototypes or the abandonment of them altogether. Rather than lose this important step, people are turning to Microsoft Excel® to create effective,...

WPF in Action with Visual Studio 2008

Manning Publications, 2008

Now more than ever, Windows applications have to work well and look good. Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), Microsoft's new user interface framework, gives you the ability to create stunning graphics, rich interactions, and highly-usable Windows applications. WPF is the API beneath Windows Vista interfaces, and it's also available for older...

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