Designing Effective Wizards: A Multidisciplinary Approach - Softcover

Daina Pupons Wickham; Debra L. Mayhew; Teresa Stoll; Kenneth June Toley III; Shannon Rouiller

Softcover

ISBN 10: 013092377X ISBN 13: 9780130923776

Publisher: Pearson P T R, 2001

Synopsis

Designing Effective Wizards: A Multidisciplinary Approach is your hands-on guide to designing great wizards. This book provides key insights from a multidisciplinary team, including usability experts, technical writers, and visual designers - presenting a start-to-finish process for effective wizard design. The authors identify issues and challenges along with IBM's best solutions.

About this title

About the Author

All the authors work at IBM's Silicon Valley Laboratory in San Jose, CA.

DAINA PUPONS WICKHAM is a Human Factors Specialist who has designed and tested wizards for multiple IBM products. She has published papers on and filed for patents for her launchpad designs.

DR. DEBRA L. MAYHEW is a Human Factors Specialist who helped create wizard guidelines for IBM data management products and has worked on wizards for products on multiple platforms.

TERESA STOLL, an Interface Visual Designer, is a member of IBM's Visual Design Board of Directors and oversees the visual design of IBM's award-winning DB2 workstation database product.

KENNETH JUNE TOLEY III is a Technical Writer who has designed and tested on-line help systems and web pages, and assisted in wizard and dialog interface design.

SHANNON ROUILLER is a Technical Editor who has written and edited books, on-line help, wizards, and product interfaces for worldwide products.

From the Back Cover

• Users want wizards—but there are no books devoted to wizard design!
• Nuts-and-bolts guide to designing wizards
• Includes checklists and examples
• The complete guide to wizard design.
• Practical usability and design techniques for successful wizard and software projects

All you need to know to build wizards your users will love:

• Extensive lists of questions for gathering requirements
• Iterative design and evaluation techniques
• Guidelines for general page layout, controls, and navigation
• Visual design tips and techniques for attractive and enticing wizards
• Launchpad solutions for linking wizards
• Advice for interactive feedback, error prevention, error recovery, and on-line help
• Accommodate any user—experts and novices, worldwide audiences, multiple platforms, plus accessibility for users with special needs!

Designing Effective Wizards: A Multidisciplinary Approach is the first "nuts and bolts" how-to guide for designing wizards that help users perform their tasks. This book brings together key insights from a multidisciplinary team, including usability experts, technical writers, and visual designers—presenting a start-to-finish process for effective wizard design. The authors identify key issues and challenges encountered during the wizard development process, and IBM's best solutions.

Includes...

• CD-ROM that contains interactive samples to help you explore the concepts of color, typography, layout, navigation, and launchpads for wizards. It also contains the screens from the case-study installation
• Extensive examples throughout
• A start-to-finish case study
• Practical checklists, summaries, and sample forms

Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson P T R
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 013092377X
• ISBN 13: 9780130923776
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400