Usability Success Stories: How Organizations Improve By Making Easier-To-Use Software and Web Sites

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Paul Sherman

Usability Success Stories

How Organizations Improve By Making Easier-To-Use Software and Web Sites

Paul Sherman

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Routledge
24 June 2024

Industrial: Commercial Art & Design; Library & information sciences; Ergonomics; User interface design & usability

People spend increasing amounts of time and effort interacting with complex hardware and software products. Some of the products we interact with are easy to learn and easy to remember. Some are even a pleasure to use. Others are hard to learn, hard to use, and frustrate us at every turn. But it is not just the user that pays the cost in such cases. Poor usability also imposes significant costs on product producers. Companies that make hard-to-use products incur higher support costs, spend more on rework, and have less satisfied customers. These outcomes can be avoided by applying the techniques of usability engineering and user-centred design (UCD) during product development. This book shows how usability and UCD practitioners do this by studying users' needs and abilities, designing the product accordingly, and verifying the design through additional testing with users. Despite the positive return on investment for usability engineering activities, many organizations view usability engineering as a non-critical part of the product development process. This book seeks to change this by relating a number of cases where usability engineering contributed significantly to the solution of a business problem. Evidence is drawn from experiences within a range of private and public sector organizations showing how usability work can best be organized and executed within a business environment. The organizational factors that facilitate or impede the application of usability engineering are also discussed. The book clearly explains the barriers to be overcome as well as highlighting the factors promoting success. A wide range of applications are covered, including web-based e-commerce, medical devices and software, process control management systems, financial services applications, consumer desktop applications and interactive voice response systems. Usability Success Stories provides a valuable guide for business managers and technical staff as well as for practitioners within the field itself.

Edited by: Paul Sherman
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 174mm,
Weight: 640g
ISBN: 9781032837697
ISBN 10: 1032837691
Pages: 226
Publication Date: 24 June 2024
Audience: General/trade , General/trade , ELT Advanced , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

List of Figures List of Tables Preface by Whitney Quesenbery Chapter 1 An Introduction to Usability and User-Centred Design by Paul Sherman Chapter 2 Tracking Ease-of-Use Metrics: A Tried and True Method for Driving Adoption of UCD in Different Corporate Cultures by Kaaren Hanson and Wendy Castleman Chapter 3 Tales from the Trenches: Getting Usability Through Corporate by Francis (Hank) Henry Chapter 4 Redesigning the United States Department of Health and Human Services Web Site by Mary Frances Theofanos and Conrad Mulligan Chapter 5 Creating Better Working Relationships in a User-Focused Organisation by Elizabeth Rosenzweig and Joel Ziff Chapter 6 Using Innovation to Promote a User-Centred Design Process While Addressing Practical Constraints by Leslie G. Tudor and Julie Radford-Davenport Chapter 7 Changing Perceptions: Getting the Business to Value User-Centred Design Processes by Adam Polansky Chapter 8 User Interface (UI) Design at Siemens Medical Solutions by Dirk Zimmermann and Jean Anderson Chapter 9 Collaborating with Change Agents to Make a Better User Interface by Paul Sherman and Susan L. Hura Chapter 10 Learning from Success Stories by Paul Sherman Index

Paul Sherman, PhD is Director of User-Centered Design and Usability at Sage Software, and Vice-President of the Usability Professionals' Association. He was also a Lecturer at the University of Texas at Dallas, where he designed and taught a course sequence in Human-Computer Interaction for the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences.

Reviews for Usability Success Stories: How Organizations Improve By Making Easier-To-Use Software and Web Sites

'Usability triumphs! Sherman and his contributors arm the reader with an arsenal of methods and strategies to overcome the greatest of usability challenges. A must have for anyone who wants to learn about usability in the *real world!*' Catherine Courage, Author, Understanding Your Users, Usability Manager, salesforce.com 'We all know success stories within the user experience community. But how do we make the case for users inside our organizations? With this book come stories that can motivate, inspire, and most importantly provide the means and the methods to create change. The result, if successfully sold to the decision-makers, is bound to improve the user experience.' Dr. Carol Barnum, Professor of Information Design and Co-Director of the Usability Center,Southern Polytechnic State University, USA