Usability engineering

@inproceedings{Nielsen1997UsabilityE,
  title={Usability engineering},
  author={Jakob Nielsen},
  booktitle={The Computer Science and Engineering Handbook},
  year={1997}
}
  • J. Nielsen
  • Published in
    The Computer Science and…
     1997
  • Computer Science
From the Publisher: Written by the author of the best-selling HyperText & HyperMedia, this book provides an excellent guide to the methods of usability engineering. Special features: emphasizes cost-effective methods that will help developers improve their user interfaces immediately, shows you how to avoid the four most frequently listed reasons for delay in software projects, provides step-by-step information about which methods to use at various stages during the development life cycle, and… Expand
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