
User Interface Task Analysis
Wiley (Publisher)
Published on 3. March 1998
Book
Paperback/Softback
XX, 488 pages
978-0-471-17831-6 (ISBN)
Description
"Hackos and Redish wisely offer us the three things we most need about user and task analysis: practical advice, practical advice, and practical advice." -Ben Shneiderman, University of Maryland
"This book is well written, thorough, and loaded with techniques, examples, and resources that bring analysis to everyone." -Marcia L. Conner, Director of Usability & Learnability PeopleSoft, Inc.
User and Task Analysis for Interface Design helps you design a great user interface by focusing on the most important step in the process -the first one. You learn to go out and observe your users at work, whether they are employees of your company or people in customer organizations. You learn to find out what your users really need, not by asking them what they want, but by going through a process of understanding what they are trying to accomplish.
JoAnn Hackos and Janice (Ginny) Redish, internationally known experts in usable design, take you through a step-by-step process to conduct a user and task analysis. You learn:
* How interface designers use user and task analysis to build successful interfaces
* Why knowledge of users, their tasks, and their environments is critical to successful design
* How to prepare and set up your site visits
* How to select and train your user and task analysis team
* What observations to make, questions to ask, and questions to avoid
* How to record and report what you have learned to your development team members
* How to turn the information you've gathered into design ideas
* How to create paper prototypes of your interface design
* How to conduct usability tests with your prototypes to find out if you're on the right track.
This book includes many examples of design successes and challenges for products of every kind.
More details
Product info
Paperback
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 191 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
942 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-471-17831-6 (9780471178316)
Schweitzer Classification
Persons
JoAnn T. Hackos is president of Comtech Services, a design consulting firm that specializes in assisting companies to understand their users, design their products and information, conduct usability tests, and manage development projects. Janice (Ginny) C. Redish is president of Redish & Associates, Inc. Ginny helps companies with user and task analysis, usability assessments, interface and information design, and building usability into software and documentation processes.
Content
Introducing User and Task Analysis for Interface Design.
UNDERSTANDING THE CONTEXT OF USER AND TASK ANALYSIS.
Thinking about Users.
Thinking about Tasks.
Thinking about the Users' Environment.
Making the Business Case for Site Visits.
GETTING READY FOR SITE VISITS.
Selecting Techniques.
Setting Up Site Visits.
Preparing for the Site Visits.
CONDUCTING THE SITE VISIT.
Conducting the Site Visit-Honing Your Observation Skills.
Conducting the Site Visit-Honing Your Interviewing Skills.
MAKING THE TRANSITION FROM ANALYSIS TO DESIGN.
Analyzing and Presenting the Data You Have Collected.
Working Toward the Interface Design.
Prototyping the Interface Design.
User and Task Analysis for Documentation and Training.
Bibliography.
Appendices.
Index.