User-Centered Design: Why and How to Put Users First in Software Development

Management for Professionals

Volumn Part F393, Issue , 2012, Pages 11-38

  Wallach, Dieter ^a   Scholz, Sebastian C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

^b Ergosign GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Engineering Tool; Mental Model; Usability Test; User Interface; Visual Design

Indexed keywords

EID: 85162256228     PISSN: 21928096     EISSN: 2192810X     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-31371-4_2     Document Type: Chapter

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