Cost-justifying usability
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Cost-justifying usability
Academic Press, c1994
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
Today's increasingly competitive and fiscally constrained business environment is fostering the need to cut costs and justify expenditures. Usability engineering is not yet universally accepted, nor is it yet an integrated aspect of software engineering, and would-be usability champions need more help than ever to win the funding necessary to introduce and promote usability engineering techniques. Cost-Justifying Usability is the first book to address pragmatically and in detail the question of how usability engineering professionals and their managers can cost-justify their proposals and efforts. The book offers specific techniques for quantifying costs and benefits, making a convincing and successful business case for investment in usability engineering. This book comprises a thorough and well-integrated collection of chapters written by experienced and prominent usability experts.
Taken together, these chapters provide readers with: An overall framework for cost-justifying usability engineering programs that can be applied to any context An examination of the unique factors and issues in cost-justifying usability efforts for three very different types of organizations: vendor companies, international development organizations, and contractor companies Case studies of successful cost-justification efforts A look at some special issues regarding cost-justification of usability, includingdiscountusability engineering techniques, success factors for introducing usability engineering into development organizations, specialized tools for usability cost-justification, and a look to the future of usability engineering Practical and effective insight for human factors professionals, interface designers, software development managers, and human factors educators
Table of Contents
- Part 1 A framework: wherefore cost justification of usability - pay me now or pay me later, but how much?, R.G. Bias
- a basic framework for cost-justification usability engineering, D.J. Mayhew and M.M. Mantei
- business case approach to cost justification, C.-M. Karat. Part 2 Approaches to cost-justifying usability: cost-justification of usability engineering - a vendor's perspective, J. Rohn and K. Ehrlich
- human factors cost justification for an internal development project, C.-M. Karat and S.M. Dray
- justifying usability in a contractor company, C.L. Mauro. Part 3 Case studies: UPAR process - casual analysis of use errors, P.O'Neal
- cost benefit analysis of upgrading computer hardware, D.J. Mayhew
- reusable software platforms - cost benefit of adapting a common software platform, N. Aykin
- design of a human factors cost-justification tool, L.A. Blatt, M.C. Harrison and R.L. Henneman. Part 4 Special issues: guerrilla human-computer interaction - using discount usability engineering to overcome the intimidation barrier, J. Nielsen
- justified human factors in a pre-funded research environment, R. Brooks
- organization inhimitors and facilitators, D.J. Mayhew and R.G. Bias
- summary - a place at the table, R.G. Bias and D.J. Mayhew.
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