Conceptual models: core to good design
People make use of software applications in their activities, applying them as tools in carrying out tasks. That this use should be good for people - easy, effective, efficient, and enjoyable - is a principal goal of design. In this book, we present the notion of Conceptual Models, and argue that Conceptual Models are core to achieving good design. From years of helping companies create software applications, we have come to believe that building applications without Conceptual Models is just a…
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- Full title :Conceptual models : core to good design / Jeff Johnson, Austin Henderson.
Summary
People make use of software applications in their activities, applying them as tools in carrying out tasks. That this use should be good for people - easy, effective, efficient, and enjoyable - is a principal goal of design. In this book, we present the notion of Conceptual Models, and argue that Conceptual Models are core to achieving good design. From years of helping companies create software applications, we have come to believe that building applications without Conceptual Models is just asking for designs that will be confusing and difficult to learn, remember, and use. We show how Conceptual Models are the central link between the elements involved in application use: people's tasks (task domains), the use of tools to perform the tasks, the conceptual structure of those tools, the presentation of the conceptual model (i.e., the user interface), the language used to describe it, its implementation, and the learning that people must do to use the application. We further show that putting a Conceptual Model at the center of the design and development process can pay rich dividends: designs that are simpler and mesh better with users' tasks, avoidance of unnecessary features, easier documentation, faster development, improved customer uptake, and decreased need for training and customer support.
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- Publication Date:©2012.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Morgan & Claypool
- Place of Publication:San Rafael, Calif
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2012.
Notes
In Synthesis digital library of engineering and computer science.
Titre de l'écran-titre (visionné le 23 mars 2012).
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (1 texte électronique (xiii, 96 p.)) : : illustrations, fichier PDF
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781608457502, 1608457508
- oclc:ocn837903616
- LC Classification:Q387.2
- Dewey Decimal:003.54
Table of Contents
Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction
1. Using tools -- 1.1 Activity -- 1.2 Tasks -- 1.3 Task domains -- 1.4 Tools -- 1.5 Function -- 1.6 Task-to-tool mapping -- 1.7 Describing tools -- 1.7.1 Task-based descriptions of tools -- 1.7.2 Model-based descriptions -- 1.8 Seeing the model through the user interface -- 1.9 Implementation architecture and implementations -- 1.10 Mental models -- 1.11 Conceptual models
2. Start with the conceptual model -- 2.1 Design (and implement) functionality? -- 2.2 Duplicate the existing activity? -- 2.3 Design (sketch) the user interface? -- 2.4 Start with conceptual design -- 2.5 Important decisions -- 2.6 Conceptual design's place in software development
3. Definition -- 3.1 What a conceptual model is -- 3.1.1 High-level description of an application -- 3.1.2 Basis for users' understanding of the application -- 3.1.3 Close relative: information architecture -- 3.1.4 Summary: what a conceptual model is -- 3.2 What a conceptual model is not -- 3.2.1 Not task-level scenarios or use cases -- 3.2.2 Not users' mental model -- 3.2.3 Not a design metaphor -- 3.2.4 Not the user interface -- 3.2.5 Not the implementation architecture -- 3.2.6 Not prod…
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