Conceptual Design for Interactive Systems: Designing for Performance and User Experienceprovides readers with a comprehensive guide to the steps necessary to take the leap from research and requirements to product design. The text presents a proven strategy for transforming research into a conceptual model, discussing the iterative process that allows users to build the essential foundation for a successful interactive system, while also taking the users mental model into consideration.Readers will gain a better understanding of the framework they need to perceive, understand, and experience their tasks and processes in the context of their products. The text is ideal for those seeking a proven, innovative strategy for meeting goals through intuitive and effective thinking.Provides a practical, guiding approach that can be immediately applied to everyday practice and studyComplete analysis and explanation of conceptual modeling and its valueDiscusses the implications of effective and poor conceptual modelsPresents a step-by-step process, allowing users to build the essential foundation for a successful interactive system
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"Im pleased to see Avi Parush publishing this book. He provides us with a well-thought out, well-illustrated analytical framework and methodology to bring to bear on a wide range of interface/interaction design and development problems. I personally have long believed and tried to practice the idea that interaction and interface architecture/design can and should be done separately from actual implementation during software development. An intertwined and intermingled focus on implementation, with implementation driving design thinking, often leads to premature choices that close off later opportunities created by having learned more about the users tasks and goals. The book provides us with a way of thinking about interface/interaction design and development that helps sort through the often confusing demands created by the need to do both, often iteratively. I think that both the experienced professional and the aspiring interaction designer will be able to find value in the framework and methodology described by Avi Parush. His work is grounded in both knowledge of cognition and in experience with actual design and development." --Thomas Hewett, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Psychology and of Computer Science, Department of Psychology, Drexel University
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Offers a field-proven, comprehensive resource that guides designers step-by-step through the design of conceptual models
PrefaceWhat is this book about?Is this book for you?How is the book
organized?Part 1: The conceptual model - FundamentalsChapter 1: A multiple
and crosschannel example - Setting an appointmentChapter 2: Places, routes,
and abstractionChapter 3: A layered framework for the conceptual modelChapter
4: The Function layerChapter 5: The Configuration layerChapter 6: The
Navigation & Policy layerChapter 7: The detailed layersChapter 8: Summary of
the components of the conceptual model according to the layered
frameworkChapter 9: Conceptual models matter! - Implications to human
performance, usability, and experienceChapter 10: A typology of conceptual
modelsSummary of Part 1Part 2: Conceptual design - A methodologyChapter 11:
Conceptual design in context - Think strategicallyChapter 12: Conceptual
design An overview of the methodologyChapter 13: First, user research. Just
do itChapter 14: Functional Chunks: Construct the essential foundationChapter
15: Configuration: Draw your first rough sketch of the conceptual
modelChapter 16: Navigation Map: Moving from one place to anotherChapter 17:
Navigation Policy: Define the Rules of the RoadChapter 18: Form -
Transition to detailed designChapter 19: Summary Conceptual Design
Methodology in a glanceEpilogue: Beyond the conceptual model and onto
detailed design
With an academic background in cognitive experimental psychology, Avi Parushs areas of expertise are human factors engineering, human computer interaction, and usability engineering. His professional and academic career of over 30 years in human factors was devoted to influencing the design of workplaces and tools people use in order to make their lives easier, safer and more beneficial. Avi Parush is internationally known as an expert in usability studies and is the founding editor in chief of the Journal of Usability Studies. Healthcare is Avi Parushs current main research focus, building on his longstanding passion for understanding and improving the relationship between people and technology.
