Successful strategies for selling usability into organisations

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages 114-115

  Bloomer, Sarah ^a   Wolfe, Susan ^b  

^a Hiser Group   (Australia)

^b Hiser Group   (Australia)

Author keywords

Communicating usability data; Cost justification; Selling usability; Strategic usability; Usability strategies

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS OBJECTIVES; COMMUNICATING USABILITY DATA; COST-JUSTIFICATION; MULTIPLE LEVELS; SOFTWARE DEVELOPER; STEP-BY-STEP APPROACH; STRATEGIC USABILITY; USABILITY STRATEGIES;

HUMAN ENGINEERING;

USABILITY ENGINEERING;

EID: 84869408636     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/632716.632788     Document Type: Conference Paper

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