Chapter 4 - Usability paradigms and principles

Overview

Designing for maximum usability is the goal of interactive systems design.
Examples of effective strategies for building interactive systems provide paradigms for designing usable interactive systems. The evolution of these usability paradigms also provides a good perspective on the history of computing.
Abstract principles offer a way of understanding usability in a more general sense, especially if we can express them within some coherent catalogue.

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