Conceptual Design for Interactive Systems: Designing for Performance and User Experience - Softcover

Avi Parush

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0124199690 ISBN 13: 9780124199699

Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers In, 2015

Synopsis

Conceptual Design for Interactive Systems: Designing for Performance and User Experience provides readers with a comprehensive guide to the steps necessary to take the leap from research and requirements to product design. The text presents a proven strategy for transforming research into a conceptual model, discussing the iterative process that allows users to build the essential foundation for a successful interactive system, while also taking the users’ mental model into consideration.

Readers will gain a better understanding of the framework they need to perceive, understand, and experience their tasks and processes in the context of their products. The text is ideal for those seeking a proven, innovative strategy for meeting goals through intuitive and effective thinking.

• Provides a practical, guiding approach that can be immediately applied to everyday practice and study
• Complete analysis and explanation of conceptual modeling and its value
• Discusses the implications of effective and poor conceptual models
• Presents a step-by-step process, allowing users to build the essential foundation for a successful interactive system

About this title

Review:

"I’m pleased to see Avi Parush publishing this book. He provides us with a well-thought out, well-illustrated analytical framework and methodology to bring to bear on a wide range of interface/interaction design and development problems.  I personally have long believed and tried to practice the idea that interaction and interface architecture/design can and should be done separately from actual implementation during software development.   An intertwined and intermingled focus on implementation, with implementation driving design thinking, often leads to premature choices that close off later opportunities created by having learned more about the user’s tasks and goals.  The book provides us with a way of thinking about interface/interaction design and development that helps sort through the often confusing demands created by the need to do both, often iteratively.  I think that both the experienced professional and the aspiring interaction designer will be able to find value in the framework and methodology described by Avi Parush.  His work is grounded in both knowledge of cognition and in experience with actual design and development." --Thomas Hewett, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Psychology and of Computer Science, Department of Psychology, Drexel University

Review:

Offers a field-proven, comprehensive resource that guides designers step-by-step through the design of conceptual models

About this edition

• Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers In
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0124199690
• ISBN 13: 9780124199699
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 164