Simple and Usable Web, Mobile, and Interaction Design

Name: Simple and Usable Web, Mobile, and Interaction Design
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ISBN: 9780321703545

ISBN-10: 0321703545

ISBN-13: 9780321703545

Edition: 2011

Authors: Giles Colborne

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In a complex world, products that are easy to use win favor with consumers. This is the first book on the topic of simplicity aimed specifically at interaction designers. It shows how to drill down and simplify user experiences when designing digital tools and applications. It begins by explaining why simplicity is attractive, explores the laws of simplicity, and presents proven strategies for achieving simplicity. Remove, hide, organize and displace become guidelines for designers, who learn simplicity by seeing before and after examples and case studies where the results speak for themselves.

Book details

List price: $39.99
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Pearson Education
Publication date: 9/16/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.25" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English




Why are we here?


A Story about simplicity


The power of simplicity


Increasing complexity is unsustainable


Not that kind of simple


Character


Fake simplicity


Know yourself



Setting a vision


Two ways to describe what's core


Get out of your office


What to look for


Three types of user


Why you should ignore expert customers


Design for the mainstream


What mainstreamers want


Emotional needs


Simplicity is about control


Choosing the right "what"


Describing the user experience


Putting it all together


World, character, plot


Extreme usability


The quick and dirty way


Insight


Getting the right vision


Share it



Four strategies for simplicity


Simplify this


The remote control


The four strategies



Remove


Remove


How not to do it


Focus on what's core


Kill lame features


What if the user...?


But our customers want it


Solutions, not processes


When features don't matter


Will it hurt?


Prioritizing features


Load


Decisions


Distractions


Smart defaults


Options and preferences


When one option is too many


Errors


Visual clutter


Removing words


Simplifying sentences


Removing too much


You can do it


Focus



Organize


Organize


Chunking


Organizing for behavior


Hard edges


Alphabets and formats


Search


Time and space


Grids


Size and location


Layers


Color coding


Desire paths



Hide


Hide


Infrequent but necessary


Customizing


Automatic customization


Progressive disclosure


Staged disclosure


X doesn't mark the spot


Cues and clues


Making things easy to find


After you hide



Displace


Displace


Displacing between devices


Mobile vs. desktop


Displacing to the user


What users do best


Creating open experiences


Kitchen knives and pianos


Unstructured data


Trust



Before we go


Conservation of complexity


Details


Simplicity happens in the user's head


Photo Credits


Index