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

Next 0.1 What's This Book All About?


Chapter 0: Foreword






In this introductory material we explain the book's goals and introduce some basic terminology. In particular, this book is about the design of user interfaces, and it's useful to discuss what we mean by "user interfaces" and why we have decided to focus on the process of their "design."




We also tell you a little about the authors, we acknowledge some people and organizations that have helped with the book, and we tell you about the shareware concept under which the book is distributed.











Copyright © 1993,1994 Lewis & Rieman







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