Interface for an App: The design rationale leading to an app that allows someone with Type 1 diabetes to self-manage their condition (Synthesis Lectures on Human-Centered Informatics)

Bob Spence (author)

ISBN 10: 1636391559 / ISBN 13: 9781636391557

Editore: Morgan & Claypool Publishers

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• Titolo: Interface for an App: The design rationale leading to an app that allows someone with Type 1 diabetes to self-manage their condition (Synthesis Lectures on Human-Centered Informatics)
• Editore: Morgan & Claypool Publishers
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1636391559
• ISBN 13: 9781636391557
• Rilegatura: Brossura
• Condizione: Very Good

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This book is an account of how I addressed the need for a smartphone app that would allow someone with Type 1 diabetes to self-manage their condition.

Its presentation highlights the major features of the app's interface design. They include the selection of metaphors appropriate to a user's need to form a mental model of the app; the importance of visible context; the benefits of consistency; and considerations of a user's cognitive and perceptual abilities. The latter is a key feature of the book.

But the book is also about the design process, and especially about the valuable contributions made by the many focus group meetings in which design ideas were first presented to people with Type 1 diabetes. Their critique, and sometimes their rejection, of interface ideas were crucial to the development of the app.

I hope this book will prove useful for teaching and design guidance.