User Interfaces, Corporate Finance - General & Miscellaneous
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Overview
Today's increasingly competitive and fiscally constrained business environment is fostering the need to cut costs and justify expenditures. Usability engineering is not yet universally accepted, nor is it yet an integrated aspect of software engineering, and would-be usability champions need more help than ever to win the funding necessary to introduce and promote usability engineering techniques.Cost-Justifying Usability is the first book to address pragmatically and in detail the question of how usability engineering professionals and their managers can cost-justify their proposals and efforts. The book offers specific techniques for quantifying costs and benefits, making a convincing and successful business case for investment in usability engineering.
This book comprises a thorough and well-integrated collection of chapters written by experienced and prominent usability experts. Taken together, these chapters provide readers with:
An overall framework for cost-justifying usability engineering programs that can be applied to any context
An examination of the unique factors and issues in cost-justifying usability efforts for three very different types of organizations: vendor companies, international development organizations, and contractor companies
Case studies of successful cost-justification efforts
A look at some special issues regarding cost-justification of usability, including"discount"usability engineering techniques, success factors for introducing usability engineering into development organizations, specialized tools for usability cost-justification, and a look to the future of usability engineering
Practical and effective insight for humanfactors professionals, interface designers, software development managers, and human factors educators
Audience: Human factors professionals; software engineers and computer graphics professionals involved in the development of user interfaces; and HCI and software development managers.
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Provides structured and proven techniques by which usability engineers and their managers can quantify the costs and benefits of a projected new product in order to make a convincing case for investment to the business types in the company. Presents an overall framework, perspectives internal and external to the company, case studies from software and hardware developers, and discussions of special issues. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)Book Details
Published
June 10, 1994
Publisher
Academic Press Inc
Pages
334
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780120958108