Designed for Use, 2nd Edition

Technique Chapters

You can identify technique chapters by the cog on the first page.

All technique chapters follow the same basic outline. Since not all techniques work well in all situations, I start by quickly outlining the kinds of situations to which the technique applies. Then, I explain what the technique is and how to use it. I end many of the technique chapters with a specific example of the technique as applied to a fictional application we design as we proceed through the book.

Since Twitter^[1] apps are our generation’s “Hello World” example application, for the technique chapters we’ll design a Twitter app. To make things interesting, we’re not designing a generic Twitter app. Our app is aimed at people who have to update Twitter ...