Designing as well as Engineering Time: The Psychology of Time Perception in Software
By Steven C. Seow
Published April 29, 2008 by Addison-Wesley Professional.
Build Applications, Websites, as well as Software Solutions which Feel Faster, More Efficient, as well as More Considerate of Users’ Time!
One dark cause strenuously influences the approach users conflict to your software, hardware, User Interfaces (UI), or web applications: how those systems implement users’ time. Now, sketch upon the scarcely 40 years of tellurian mechanism communication research–including his own pioneering work–Dr. Steven Seow presents state-of-the-art most appropriate practices for reflecting users’ biased perceptions of time in your applications as well as hardware.
Seow starts by introducing the elementary indication which explains how users understand as well as squander time as they correlate with technology. He offers specific superintendence as well as recommendations associated to multiform pass aspects of time as well as timing–including user tolerance, complement responsiveness, swell indicators, execution time estimates, as well as more. Finally, he brings together proven techniques for impacting users’ notice of time drawn from mixed disciplines as well as industries, trimming from psychology to retail, animal investigate to entertainment.
• Discover how time as well as timing strenuously stroke user perception, emotions, as well as behavior
• Systematically have your applications some-more demure of users’ time
• Avoid usual mistakes which consistently perplex or exasperate users
• Manage user perceptions as well as tolerance, as well as set up systems which have been viewed as faster
• Optimize “flow” to have users feel some-more productive, empowered, as well as creative
• Make in accord with as well as sensitive tradeoffs which show off singular growth resources
• Learn how to exam usability issues associated to time–including tangible vs. viewed charge duration
Designing as well as Engineering Time is for each record developer, designer, engineer, architect, usability specialist, manager, as well as marketer. Using the insights as well as techniques, technical as well as non-technical professionals can work together to set up systems as well as applications which yield distant some-more value–and emanate most happier users.
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