Designing the user experience of game development tools. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: David Lightbown.
• Authors: Lightbown, David
• Contents: The Big Green Button; My Story; Who Should Read this Book?; Companion Website and Twitter Account; Before we Begin; ; Welcome to Designing the User Experience of Game Development Tools ; What Will We Learn in This Chapter?; What Is This Book About?; Defining User Experience; The Value of Improving the User Experience of Our Tools; Parallels Between User Experience and Game Design; How Do People Benefit From an Improved User Experience?; Finding the Right Balance; Wrapping Up; ; The User-Centered Design Process ; What Will We Learn in This Chapter?; What Is the User-Centered Design Process?; The Phases of the User-Centered Design Process; The Power of Pre-Visualization; Getting to a Better User Experience Faster; Integrating the User-Centered Design Process into Agile; Who Has the Time to Do All of This?; Wrapping Up; ; What Does It Mean to Be User-Centered? ; What Will We Learn in This Chapter?; Start With the Users; Focus on the Right Users; Features Versus Goals; Do One Thing Really Well; Choose the Right Features; Wrapping Up; ; Analysis ; What Will We Learn in This Chapter?; The Importance of Watching Users Work; Introduction to Human-Computer Interaction; Understanding the Mental Model; Interview Stakeholders; Perform Contextual Analyses; Create Task Flows; Discover the Users Mental Model; Establish Measurements; Advanced Techniques; Wrapping Up; ; Design ; What Will We Learn in This Chapter?; How the Brain and the Eyes Work Together; Visual Language; Interaction Patterns; Hierarchy; Constraints; Natural Mapping; Representation; Feedback; Feed-Forward; Grouping; Chunking; Excise; Progressive Disclosure; Wrapping Up; ; Evaluation ; What Will We Learn in This Chapter?; How Do We Evaluate the Design?; Choosing Between Code or Pre-Visualization; Pre-Visualize the Interface; Perform a Heuristic Evaluation; Do User Tests; Wrapping Up; ; Back to Analysis ; Deja Vu; Comparing Measurements; ; Real-World User-Centered Design ; Introduction; The Process in Action; Calculating the Return on Investment; ; Conclusion ; Summary; Closing word; ; Works Cited & Recommended Reading ; Trademarks ; ;
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: Boca Raton : CRC Press
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 794.81536; Computer games -- Design; Computer games -- Psychological aspects; Human-computer interaction
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781482240214
• Related ISBNs: 9781482240191
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; item not viewed.
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