Task-Centered User Interface Design
A Practical Introduction
by Clayton Lewis and John Rieman
Copyright ©1993, 1994: Please see the "shareware notice" at the front of the book.
Contents | Foreword |ProcessUsers&Tasks | Design | Inspections | User-testing | Tools | Documentation |

0.1 What's This Book All About?
        0.1.1 Who Should Be Reading the Book?
        0.1.2 What Is the User Interface?
        0.1.3 What Kind of User Interfaces Does This Book Cover?
        0.1.4 Why Focus on Design?
0.2 How to Use This Book
        0.2.1 HyperTopics and Examples
        0.2.2 Exercises
0.3 About Shareware: How to Get and Pay for This Book
        0.3.1 Why Shareware?
        0.3.2 Special Note to Instructors and Students
        0.3.3 Where to Get Up-To-Date Copies
        0.3.4 Corrections and Additions
        0.3.5 Let Us Know What You Think
0.4 About the Authors
0.5 Acknowledgements
0.6 Disclaimers

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0.1.3 What Kind of User Interfaces Does This Book Cover?




The principles presented in this book were developed primarily in the context of the interfaces to computer software and hardware, but they are also applicable to a wide variety of other machines, from complex equipment such as phone systems and video cameras to simple appliances like refrigerators and power tools. Simpler machines are sometimes informative examples of problems or solutions in interface design.











Copyright © 1993,1994 Lewis & Rieman







Contents | Foreword |ProcessUsers&Tasks | Design | Inspections | User-testing | Tools | Documentation |