Effective Prototyping for Software Makers
Effective Prototyping for Software Makers

Author: Jonathan Arnowitz

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2010-07-19

Total Pages: 625

ISBN-13: 0080468969

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Effective Prototyping for Software Makers is a practical, informative resource that will help anyone—whether or not one has artistic talent, access to special tools, or programming ability—to use good prototyping style, methods, and tools to build prototypes and manage for effective prototyping. This book features a prototyping process with guidelines, templates, and worksheets; overviews and step-by-step guides for nine common prototyping techniques; an introduction with step-by-step guidelines to a variety of prototyping tools that do not require advanced artistic skills; templates and other resources used in the book available on the Web for reuse; clearly-explained concepts and guidelines; and full-color illustrations and examples from a wide variety of prototyping processes, methods, and tools. This book is an ideal resource for usability professionals and interaction designers; software developers, web application designers, web designers, information architects, information and industrial designers. * A prototyping process with guidelines, templates, and worksheets;* Overviews and step-by-step guides for 9 common prototyping techniques;* An introduction with step-by-step guidelines to a variety of prototyping tools that do not require advanced artistic skills;* Templates and other resources used in the book available on the Web for reuse;* Clearly-explained concepts and guidelines;* Full-color illustrations, and examples from a wide variety of prototyping processes, methods, and tools. * www.mkp.com/prototyping

Effective Prototyping with Excel
Effective Prototyping with Excel

Author: Nevin Berger

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2009-01-07

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 0080916716

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Although recognized as a key to the design process, prototyping often falls victim to budget cuts, deadlines, or lack of access to sophisticated tools. This can lead to sloppy and ineffective prototypes or the abandonment of them altogether. Rather than lose this important step, people are turning to Microsoft Excel® to create effective, simple, and inexpensive prototypes. Conveniently, the software is available to nearly everyone, and most are proficient in its basic functionality. Effective Prototyping with Excel offers how-to guidance on how everyone can use basic Excel skills to create prototypes – ranging from narrative wire frames to hi-fidelity prototypes. A wide array of software design problems and business demands are solved via practical step-by-step examples and illustrations. Step-by-step guide to prototyping with a simple and affordable tool nearly everyone already has on their desktop Quickly and easily allows web and software designers to explore usability, design alternatives, and test theories prior to starting production Perfect companion to Effective Prototyping for Software Makers – with the same author team and full-color treatment, useful case studies, and hands-on exercises

A NOVEL APPROACH OF AUTHENTICATION USING PIXEL VALUE GRAPHICAL PASSWORD SCHEME
A NOVEL APPROACH OF AUTHENTICATION USING PIXEL VALUE GRAPHICAL PASSWORD SCHEME

Author: MOHD SHUKRAN MOHD AFIZI

Publisher: Anchor Academic Publishing (aap_verlag)

Published: 2015-03-31

Total Pages: 123

ISBN-13: 3954899132

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In decades, authentication system is relying on username and password as passphrase object for authentication process. The username and password mechanism bring major problem lately and raising the system developer worries on security for client server communication. Many methods and mechanisms are being introduced to overcome this authentication flaws. One of mechanism that has been introduce is graphical password mechanism on purpose to reduce human memory burden based on psychological study that shows human is better at recognizing and remembering images. However, the current method result many security flaw on graphical password authentication mechanism and require specific tool which is cannot be easily implement on any computer system platform. To overcome current method flaws, pixel value graphical password scheme is being introduced by combining the text-based password mechanism and graphical password mechanism where the authentication system extracting pixel value that resides in a digital image file. The extracted eight bits pixel value is used as the passphrase alongside with username during authentication process. The design and development of this method is based on identified graphical password enhancement and user requirement through literature review analysis. Results on literature analysis are being referred to develop the system flow and system design as the design concept which is being used for prototyping development. The developed prototype is being tested with several collections of image specimens as image experimental testing. Results and output from the testing show promising results as the result for Pixel Value graphical password scheme is bring an extremely positive impact. In other words, pixel value graphical password scheme is bringing graphical password scheme a secure promising authentication implementation.

Design Thinking in Software and AI Projects
Design Thinking in Software and AI Projects

Author: Robert Stackowiak

Publisher: Apress

Published: 2020-12-05

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 9781484261521

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Learn the fundamentals of Design Thinking and how to apply Design Thinking techniques in defining software development and AI solutions. Design Thinking is an approach to innovation which identifies problems and generates solution ideas that can be rapidly proven through prototyping. This book provides a brief history of Design Thinking and an overview of the process. It then drills down into more detail regarding methods and tools used in a Design Thinking workshops leading to useful prototypes. Guidance is provided on: Preparing for a Design Thinking Workshop Uncovering potential business problems that might be solved Prioritizing potential solutions Identifying and characterizing stakeholders Choosing the right prototypes for development Limiting scope and best practices in prototype building The book concludes with a discussion of best practices in operationalizing successful prototypes, and describes change management techniques critical for successful adoption. You can use the knowledge gained from reading this book to incorporate Design Thinking techniques in your software development and AI projects, and assure timely and successful delivery of solutions. What You Will Learn Gain foundational knowledge of what Design Thinking is and when to apply the technique Discover preparation and facilitation techniques used in workshops Know how ideas are generated and then validated through prototyping Understand implementation best practices, including change management considerations Who This Book Is For Business decision makers and project stakeholders as well as IT project owners who seek a method leading to fast development of successful software and AI prototypes demonstrating real business value. Also for data scientists, developers, and systems integrators who are interested in facilitating or utilizing Design Thinking workshops to drive momentum behind potential software development and AI projects.

GUI Bloopers
GUI Bloopers

Author: Jeff Johnson

Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann

Published: 2000-03-17

Total Pages: 580

ISBN-13: 9781558605824

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"Better read this book, or your design will be featured in Bloopers II. Seriously, bloopers may be fun in Hollywood outtakes, but no movie director would include them in the final film. So why do we find so many bloopers in shipped software? Follow Jeff Johnson as he leads the blooper patrol deep into enemy territory: he takes no prisoners but reveals all the design stupidities that users have been cursing over the years." -Jakob Nielsen Usability Guru, Nielsen Norman Group "If you are a software developer, read this book, especially if you don't think you need it. Don't worry, it isn't filled with abstract and useless theory--this is a book for doers, code writers, and those in the front trenches. Buy it, read it, and take two sections daily." -Don Norman President, UNext Learning Systems hr align="CENTER" size="1" width="75%" GUI Bloopers looks at user interface design bloopers from commercial software, Web sites, and information appliances, explaining how intelligent, well-intentioned professionals made these dreadful mistakes--and how you can avoid them. While equipping you with all the theory needed to learn from these examples, GUI expert Jeff Johnson also presents the reality of interface design in an entertaining, anecdotal, and instructive way. This is an excellent, well-illustrated resource for anyone whose work touches on usability issues, including software engineers, Web site designers, managers of development processes, QA professionals, and usability professionals. Features Takes a learn-by-example approach that teaches you to avoid common errors by asking the appropriate questions of your own interface designs. Includes two complete war stories, drawn from the author's personal experience, that describe in detail the challenges faced by UI engineers. Covers bloopers in a wide range of categories: GUI components, layout and appearance, text messages, interaction strategies, Web site design, responsiveness issues, management decision-making, and even more at www.GUI-bloopers.com. Organized and formatted based on the results of its own usability testing--so you can quickly find the information you need, packaged in easily digested pieces.

Paper Prototyping
Paper Prototyping

Author: Carolyn Snyder

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2003-05-12

Total Pages: 403

ISBN-13: 0080513506

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Do you spend a lot of time during the design process wondering what users really need? Do you hate those endless meetings where you argue how the interface should work? Have you ever developed something that later had to be completely redesigned? Paper Prototyping can help. Written by a usability engineer with a long and successful paper prototyping history, this book is a practical, how-to guide that will prepare you to create and test paper prototypes of all kinds of user interfaces. You'll see how to simulate various kinds of interface elements and interactions. You'll learn about the practical aspects of paper prototyping, such as deciding when the technique is appropriate, scheduling the activities, and handling the skepticism of others in your organization. Numerous case studies and images throughout the book show you real world examples of paper prototyping at work. Learn how to use this powerful technique to develop products that are more useful, intuitive, efficient, and pleasing: * Save time and money - solve key problems before implementation begins * Get user feedback early - use it to focus the development process * Communicate better - involve development team members from a variety of disciplines * Be more creative - experiment with many ideas before committing to one *Enables designers to solve design problems before implementation begins *Five case studies provide real world examples of paper prototyping at work *Delves into the specifics of what types of projects paper prototyping is and isn't good for.

Does Prototyping Help or Hinder Good Requirements? What Are the Best Practices for Using This Method?
Does Prototyping Help or Hinder Good Requirements? What Are the Best Practices for Using This Method?

Author: Freedom Toweh

Publisher: Trafford Publishing

Published: 2019-08-13

Total Pages: 21

ISBN-13: 1490796517

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A software prototype is a partial, possible, or preliminary implementation of a proposed new product according to Wiegers and Beatty (2013). Poor requirements are in most cases the major cause of late products with so many bugs and design flaws. An effective prototyping process can reduce cost and improve customer satisfaction and delight (Wilson, 2010). A prototyping with an effective approach can also be used to validate and extract assumptions and requirements that exist among the product team. It is absolutely important to understand that requirements may have unwanted side effects before the creation of the final product which only a prototype can expose. Arnowitz, Arent and Berger (2007) suggested that too often in the software process, design and creation are crammed into the late stages when there is little time available for prototyping and validation, thus leading to high-risk software development. This book will first cover a review of the literature, and secondly it will explore the significance of prototyping and examine its benefits.

Design, User Experience, and Usability: User Experience in Novel Technological Environments
Design, User Experience, and Usability: User Experience in Novel Technological Environments

Author: Aaron Marcus

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2013-07-01

Total Pages: 625

ISBN-13: 3642392385

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The four-volume set LNCS 8012, 8013, 8014 and 8015 constitutes the proceedings of the Second International Conference on Design, User Experience, and Usability, DUXU 2013, held as part of the 15th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2013, held in Las Vegas, USA in July 2013, jointly with 12 other thematically similar conferences. The total of 1666 papers and 303 posters presented at the HCII 2013 conferences was carefully reviewed and selected from 5210 submissions. These papers address the latest research and development efforts and highlight the human aspects of design and use of computing systems. The papers accepted for presentation thoroughly cover the entire field of Human-Computer Interaction, addressing major advances in knowledge and effective use of computers in a variety of application areas. The total of 282 contributions included in the DUXU proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in this four-volume set. The 65 papers included in this volume are organized in the following topical sections: designing for safe and secure environments; designing for smart and ambient devices; designing for virtual and augmented environments; and emotional and persuasion design.

Knowledge-based Software Engineering
Knowledge-based Software Engineering

Author: Maria Virvou

Publisher: IOS Press

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 161499093X

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As knowledge-based software engineering matures and increasingly automates the software engineering life cycle, software engineering resources are shifting towards knowledge acquisition and the automated reuse of expert knowledge for developing software artifacts. This book summarizes the work and new research results presented at the Tenth Joint Conference on Knowledge-based Software Engineering (JCKBSE 2012), held on the island of Rhodes, Greece, in August 2012. The biennial Joint Conference on Knowledge-Based Software Engineering brings together researchers and practitioners to share ideas on the foundations, techniques, tools, and applications of knowledge-based software engineering theory and practice. Topics addressed include theoretical foundations, practical techniques, software tools, applications and/or experience reports in knowledge-based software engineering. This book is published in the subseries Knowledge-Based Intelligent Engineering Systems (KBIES).