Coordinating User Interfaces for Consistency

Jakob Nielsen (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

152 Seiten

2001
Morgan Kaufmann Publishers In (Verlag)
978-1-55860-821-4 (ISBN)

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Details a variety of methods for attaining interface consistency, including central control, user definitions, shared code, and model analysis. This work presents a cost-benefits analysis of organizational efforts to promote and achieve consistency. It also considers the consistency of interface elements other than screen design.

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.

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.

1. Executive Summary: Coordinating User Interfaces by Jakob Nielsen
2. The Dimensions of Consistency by Wendy A. Kellogg
3. A Cost Benefit Analysis for Corporate User Interface Standards: What Price to Pay for a Consistent "Look and Feel"? by Daniel Rosenberg
4. Coordinating Consistency of User Interfaces, Code, Online Help, and Documentation with Multilingual/Multitarget Software Specification by Gary Perlman
5. Achieving Consistency for the Macintosh by Bruce Tognazzini
6. Developing the XUI Style by Michael Good
7. Consistency as Process by Richard Wolf
8. New Ways to Consistent Interfaces by Ianne Howards Koritzinsky
9. Tools for Generating Consistent User Interfaces by Charles Wiecha, William Bennett, Stephen Boies, and John Gould

Erscheint lt. Verlag	19.12.2001
Reihe/Serie	Interactive Technologies
Verlagsort	San Francisco
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	260 g
Themenwelt	Informatik ► Software Entwicklung ► User Interfaces (HCI)
ISBN-10	1-55860-821-4 / 1558608214
ISBN-13	978-1-55860-821-4 / 9781558608214
Zustand	Neuware