Usability Testing Essentials presents a practical, step-by-step approach to learning the entire process of planning and conducting a usability test. It explains how to analyze and apply the results and what to do when confronted with budgetary and time restrictions. This is the ideal book for anyone involved in usability or user-centered design-from students to seasoned professionals.

Filled with new examples and case studies, Usability Testing Essentials, Second Edition is completely updated...

USER EXPERIENCE DESIGN is the multifaceted discipline of shaping digital products and systems into tools that are both useful and usable. Success as a UX designer extends beyond just knowledge of the latest technologies; it also involves diplomacy, management insight, and a solid grasp of business dynamics. In this updated guide, you'll learn to: Understand various roles in UX design, identify stakeholders, and increase collaboration across teamsDefine your project's purpose and scope collabo...

For Database Systems and Database Design and Application courses offered at the junior, senior and graduate levels in Computer Science departments. Written by well-known computer scientists, this introduction to database systems offers a comprehensive approach, focusing on database design, database use, and implementation of database applications and database management systems. The first half of the book provides in-depth coverage of databases from the point of view of the database designer,...

The Art of Game Design guides you through the design process step-by-step, helping you to develop new and innovative games that will be played again and again. It explains the fundamental principles of game design and demonstrates how tactics used in classic board, card and athletic games also work in top-quality video games. Good game design happens when you view your game from as many perspectives as possible, and award-winning author Jesse Schell presents over 100 sets of questions to ask ...

Designing Secure Software consolidates Loren Kohnfelder's more than twenty years of experience into a concise, elegant guide to improving the security of technology products. Written for a wide range of software professionals, it emphasizes building security into software design early and involving the entire team in the process. The book begins with a discussion of core concepts.

The second part, perhaps this book's most important contribution, covers the process of designing and reviewing a...

This book is an introductory text on design science, intended to support both graduate students and researchers in structuring, undertaking and presenting design science work. It builds on established design science methods as well as recent work on presenting design science studies and ethical principles for design science, and also offers novel instruments for visualizing the results, both in the form of process diagrams and through a canvas format. While the book does not presume any prior...

Dit nieuwe ICT-woordenboek wil uw handzame gids zijn voor het nieuwe jargon uit de elektronische en digitale wereld in brede zin. Het bevat 20.000 Engelse in de ICT-wereld gebruikte termen met hun vertaling en uitleg.Engels is de taal van internet. Computers in allerlei vormen rukken met onvoorstelbare snelheid op in álle nieuwe ontwikkelingen, toepassingen en apparaten, vaak gebruikt via internet. In het daardoor ontstane nieuwe jargon gaat het vooral om het gebruik van technologie, niet om...

Wat maakt een videogame memorabel? Hoe kan het dat een spelletje van drie uur meer indruk op je maakt dan de grandeur van Grand Theft Auto V? En waarom is extreem geweld lang zo leuk niet meer als vroeger? Deze en andere bespiegelingen komen voorbij in achttien verhalen die terugblikken op vijfentwintig jaar aan pc-gaming. Van de klassieke point & click adventures tot de genadeloosheid van Dark Souls, een beetje gamer zal zich geregeld herkennen in de anekdotes en observaties die in XP de vir...

We willen steeds meer grip op onze leefomgeving krijgen. Niet alleen willen we weten hoe warm het in huis is en daar de thermostaat op af stemmen, we willen ook onze verlichting kunnen instellen vanaf ons werk. Maar we willen ook weten of de deuren wel echt dicht zijn, of de wasmachine klaar is en de planten vanaf ons vakantieadres water geven.

Dat alles is mogelijk met behulp van microcontrollers. De ESP32 is zo een microcontroller. Wat de oren, ogen, reuk, smaak en gevoel voor de mens zijn,...