Alan Cooper calls for a Software Revolution - his best-selling book now in trade paperback with new foreword and afterword.

Shows information architects, designers, and web site developers how to build large-scale and maintainable web sites that are easy to navigate. This book discusses blueprints, wireframes and the role of diagrams in the design phase. It addresses emerging technologies while maintaining its focus on fundamentals.

Deals with content and page design, designing for ease of navigation and users with disabilities. This book presents a series of principles which show: that web users want to find what they're after quickly; and, that if they don't know what they're after, they want to browse quickly and access information they come across in a logical manner.

Provides insights and practical advice for novice and veteran alike. This book discusses why people really leave Web sites; making sites usable and accessible; and, surviving executive design whims. It offers help for those whose bosses, clients, stakeholders, and marketing managers insist on doing the wrong thing.

Corporate and commercial software-development teams all want solutions for one important problem how to get their high-pressure development schedules under control. In RAPID DEVELOPMENT, author Steve McConnell addresses that concern head-on with overall strategies, specific best practices, and valuable tips that help shrink and control development schedules and keep projects moving. Inside, you ..

Serves as a guide to the methods of usability engineering. This book provides the tools needed to avoid usability surprises and improve product quality. It includes information on which method to use at various stages during the development lifecycle, along with information on how to run a usability test.