Graphical User Interface Design and Evaluation Guide

This title describes a design process which can be used by practitioners in busy commercial environments called GUIDE - Graphical User Interface Design and Evaluation. It contains techniques (usability requirement specification, task modelling, object modelling, style guide definition, GUI design, prototyping, and evaluation), integrated together into a coherent framework. Tha material is intended for professional software developers. The book has been written by developers for developers and is designed to be user-centred in it's description of the development process. It also features the technique of user object modelling and shows how this is integrated with task analysis and GUI design.

Written from the point of view of software systems developers, this guide describes the process for designing and evaluating the graphical user interface (GUI) to computer application software. Defines a comprehensive user-interface design process, showing how complementary techniques can be used together. Shows how task analysis can be used in conjunction with user object modeling to create a user-centered application model. Offers a coherent and practical approach to the design of the users mental model. For software systems developers, specifically systems analysts, designers, and programmers who wish to develop GUI systems.