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Author: Jonathan Anderson
ISBN : B003AU7DPC
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People expect effortless, engaging interaction with desktop and web applications, but producing software that generates enjoyable user experiences is much harder than many companies anticipate. With Effective UI, you'll learn proven user-experience strategies that will satisfy your clients and customers, drive business value, and increase brand strength.
This book shows you how to capture the collaborative and cooperative spirit among designers, engineers, and management required for building engaging software. You'll also learn valuable methods for maintaining focus throughout the process -- whether you're a product manager who needs a clear roadmap, a developer or designer looking for guidance and advocacy, or a businessperson who wants to understand and manage user-experience software initiatives.
Learn how to build software that will:
- Generate engaging and interactive experiences between consumers and businesses, or between businesspeople and their information systems
- Account for how people work with, think about, and consume information
- Establish a richer means of collaboration and communication
- Reduce frustration by streamlining complex tasks and creating processes that are more intuitive
- Distinguish products, services, and brands to create a competitive advantage
- Create scalable systems that adapt to changing user needs and behaviors
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- File Size: 4213 KB
- Print Length: 320 pages
- Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
- Publisher: O'Reilly Media; 1 edition (January 26, 2010)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B003AU7DPC
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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If you are looking for a good book on UI design principles, methods, tips and tricks, with concrete examples and suggestions, then don't bother spending your money on this tome. It should have been titled "Effective PM (for beginners)", as it's almost exclusively about project management rather than UI design.
If you are familiar with iterative development practices, agile, the perils of waterfall, requirements analysis, stakeholder relations, team building and the overall software project management process, then you will find nothing new in this book. The first few chapters read like a marketing brochure for the Effective UI consulting group. If you know little of these areas, or have a manager/stakeholder that you want to try to convert, then this book might provide some value as a high level introduction to software project management.
To me, this was very disappointing. I have dozens and dozens of O'Reilly books, decades of SW dev experience from C-level on down, and this is the first O'Reilly book that I've purchased that I would send back (if that just wasn't worth the time/trouble to do so). I'll probably just give it to the Goodwill charity, and hope that someone can benefit from it.
With it's current title, I rate this barely as a 1, and then only because they included some interesting, albeit barely relevant, quotes from Clausewitz and Sun Tzu. If they had changed the title to "Effective PM - An Introduction to Software Development management/practices" then it might rate a 3.
O'Reilly dropped the ball on this one, IMO.
By Andrzej J. Taramina
The authors of this book share many great insights into software project management, many of which I can confirm from my own experience. So why is the book called Effective UI? It does very little to describe tangible steps that need to be taken to introduce more effective design and development practices that will lead to better user experiences. Many insights the authors share such as "the raw materials that go into building a software product are the intelligence, ingenuity, and creativity of the team that builds it" risk sounding trite. Of course it is hard to fault the authors for sharing such insights because they may not be obvious to everyone. But I think it's fair to say that people thinking of buying this book will expect something quite different, as I did. In Chapter 7, for example, they describe how to map high-level workflows to help define requirements, making platform and framework choices, mapping interactions with external systems, defining business logic, how to use revision control and automated testing. Perhaps the authors felt it was necessary to cover these topics, even cursorily, but the topics really belong in a book called "Software Engineering" or "Software Project Management", not a book called "Effective UI". If someone you know has a copy of this book to borrow, you probably will not regret reading it, but I can't recommend buying the book as you will probably be getting something quite different than what you expect.
By Duane Moore
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