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Designing Highly Useable Software

ISBN: 0782143016
EAN: 2147483647

Year: 2003
Pages: 114

Authors: Jeff Cogswell, Sybex

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• Table of Contents
• BackCover
• Designing Highly Useable Software
• Introduction
• Part I: Keeping It Simple
• Chapter 1: The UUI - The Useable User Interface
• It s Intuitive Trust Me
• Idioms and the Software Experience
• Giving Users What They Want (Including Respect)
• The Real Risk of Repetitive Motion Injury
• Moving Forward
• Chapter 2: Modeling the Real World
• Modeling That s Too Real
• The Case for Using Use Cases
• Modeling Non-computer Gadgets with a Computer
• Designing Classes that Model
• Moving Forward
• Chapter 3: Laying Out Your Windows and Dialog Boxes
• Organizing and Arranging the Windows
• Laying Out Controls in a Window
• More Window Design Issues
• Moving Forward
• Chapter 4: Managing Your Software s Time
• World, Meet Hourglass. Hourglass, World.
• Shortcuts to Success: Bookmarks
• How Better Software Could Make People More Efficient
• Moving Forward
• Chapter 5: Highly Navigable Software
• Avoiding Hoop-Jumping
• Building a Minimal Required Usability Vocabulary
• Navigation through Toolbars and Menus
• Dragging and Dropping
• Moving Forward
• Chapter 6: Data, Reports, and Printouts
• Relational Design: Great on the Hard Drive, but...
• Spelling, Grammar, and Word Usage
• Making Data Available Online and on the Screen
• Including Print Features in Your Software
• Moving Forward
• Chapter 7: Adding a Web Interface
• Auto-updates
• Synchronizing Data
• Moving Forward
• Part II: The Lonely Engineer
• Chapter 8: Under the Hood
• Dealing with Dynamic Allocation
• Watch Those Pointer Variables
• Mucking with the System Directory - Keep Out
• All Kinds of Mistakes Your Coworkers Make
• Implementing an Undo System
• Moving Forward
• Chapter 9: When Your Software Starts, Stops, or Dies a Quick Death
• Starting Up
• Shutting Down
• Correctly Using Exception Handlers
• Moving Forward
• Chapter 10: Modularity and Libraries
• What Makes for a Highly Useable Library?
• Creating a Useable Library for Other Developers
• Moving Forward
• Chapter 11: Object-Oriented Pontificating
• The Final Answer: What Is OOP?
• Avoid Letting Object-Oriented Programming Get out of Control
• Object-Oriented Usability
• Moving Forward
• Part III: The Business of It All - It s Dollars and Sense
• Chapter 12: A Very Gross National Product: Business and Software Problems
• Building the Killer App - Forget It
• How Software Affects Businesses
• Moving Forward
• Chapter 13: Testing, Testing, Testing
• Why You Need a QA Team (and What They Should Do)
• Usability Testing Strategies
• Moving Forward
• Chapter 14: Installing, Training, and Helping
• Offering Online Help
• Training with Ease
• Moving Forward
• Chapter 15: Book in a Book - A Guide for Programming Bosses
• Programmers, Decision Makers, and Egos
• Keeping Up with the Technological Joneses
• Moving Forward
• Appendix A: Software Design Resources
• Newsletters and Magazines
• Websites
• Books
• Index
• Index_B
• Index_C
• Index_D
• Index_E
• Index_F
• Index_G
• Index_H
• Index_I
• Index_J
• Index_K
• Index_L
• Index_M
• Index_N
• Index_O
• Index_P
• Index_Q
• Index_R
• Index_S
• Index_T
• Index_U
• Index_V
• Index_W
• Index_Y
• List of Figures
• List of Real World Scenarios
• List of Sidebars