Conceptual Design for Interactive Systems

Preface

What Is This Book About?

This book is about conceptual models and conceptual design of interactive systems.

There are so many attractively designed applications. Nevertheless, many leave the user frustrated. What do you need to consider before designing the screens in order to ensure that the application will provide a positive user experience? Conceptual design is a key step in the process of user interface design that answers that question. And this book offers an effective methodology to do conceptual design.

Let us examine a practical example to illustrate where you could encounter conceptual models in the overall context of designing and developing interactive systems. Imagine an application on a mobile device supporting physical ...