User interface engineering
User interface engineering is the engineering of the user interface. It addresses the need to develop interfaces that make users more productive. It is often considered as one of the more practical aspects of the field of human-computer interaction. Concerns include standards simplicity utility coherence usability testing Techniques for engineering user interfaces include personas paper prototypes talk aloud protocol References: About Face by Alan Cooper. Usability Engineering by Jakob Nielsen User interface engineering is closely related to or a subset of software engineering. See also usability engineering
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