Designing and Engineering Time May 2008 eBook BBL

The type of the release is: eBook

In the CHM format with ISBN: 0321509188 and Pub Date: May 09, 2008

The size of the release is: 02 disks x 2.88mb

And released on: 05/18/2008

Build Applications, Websites, and Software Solutions that Feel Faster,

More Efficient, and More Considerate of Users?Time!

One hidden factor powerfully influences the way users react to your

software, hardware, User Interfaces (UI), or web applications: how those

systems utilize users?time. Now, drawing on the nearly 40 years of

human computer interaction researchincluding his own pioneering

workDr. Steven Seow presents state-of-the-art best practices for

reflecting users?subjective perceptions of time in your applications

and hardware.

Seow begins by introducing a simple model that explains how users

perceive and expend time as they interact with technology. He offers

specific guidance and recommendations related to several key aspects of

time and timingincluding user tolerance, system responsiveness,

progress indicators, completion time estimates, and more. Finally, he

brings together proven techniques for impacting users?perception of

time drawn from multiple disciplines and industries, ranging from

psychology to retail, animal research to entertainment.

? Discover how time and timing powerfully impact user

perception, emotions, and behavior

? Systematically make your applications more considerate of

users?time

? Avoid common mistakes that consistently frustrate or infuriate

users

? Manage user perceptions and tolerance, and build systems that

are perceived as faster

? Optimize flow?to make users feel more productive, empowered,

and creative

? Make reasonable and informed tradeoffs that maximize limited

development resources

? Learn how to test usability issues related to timeincluding

actual vs. perceived task duration

Designing and Engineering Time is for every technology developer,

designer, engineer, architect, usability specialist, manager, and

marketer. Using its insights and techniques, technical and non-technical

professionals can work together to build systems and applications that

provide far more valueand create much happier users.

Steven C. Seow has a unique combination of experience in both

experimental psychology and software usability. He joined Microsoft as a

User Researcher after completing his Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology at

Brown University with a research focus on human timing and information

theory models of human performance. Seow holds Bachelors and Masters

Degrees in Forensic Psychology from John Jay College of Criminal

Justice, and wrote his masters thesis on distortions in time

perception. For more information about Steven Seow and his research,

visit his website at www.StevenSeow.com.

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