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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0.2 How to Use This Book




The main body of this book is a series of chapters describing in rough chronological order the steps needed to design a good user interface. Chapter 1 provides an overview of this process, and Chapters 2 through 7 fill in the details. Two appendices provide additional information on topics that don't fit into this chronological structure and that may not be of interest to every reader. Appendix L provides guidance on legal issues in interface design, while Appendix M gives an overview of management concerns.











Copyright © 1993,1994 Lewis & Rieman







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