1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911089908603321

Autore

Rubin Jeffrey <1949->

Titolo

Handbook of usability testing : how to plan, design, and conduct effective tests / / Jeff Rubin, Dana Chisnell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Indianapolis, IN, : Wiley Pub., c2008

ISBN

9786611374549

9781118080405

1118080408

9781281374547

1281374547

9780470386088

0470386088

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (386 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

ChisnellDana

Disciplina

006.7019

Soggetti

User interfaces (Computer systems) - Testing

Computers

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Handbook of Usability Testing: How to Plan, Design, and Conduct Effective Tests, Second Edition; About the Authors; Credits; Acknowledgments; Contents; Foreword; Preface to the Second Edition; Part I: Usability Testing: An Overview; Chapter 1: What Makes Something Usable?; Chapter 2: What Is Usability Testing?; Chapter 3: When Should You Test?; Chapter 4: Skills for Test Moderators; Part II: The Process for Conducting a Test; Chapter 5: Develop the Test Plan; Chapter 6: Set Up a Testing Environment; Chapter 7: Find and Select Participants; Chapter 8: Prepare Test Materials

Chapter 9: Conduct the Test SessionsChapter 10: Debrief the Participant and Observers; Chapter 11: Analyze Data and Observations; Chapter 12: Report Findings and Recommendations; Part III: Advanced Techniques; Chapter 13: Variations on the Basic Method; Chapter 14: Expanding from Usability Testing to Designing the User Experience; Afterword; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Whether it?s software, a cell phone, or a refrigerator, your customer



wants?no, expects?your product to be easy to use. This fully revised handbook provides clear, step-by-step guidelines to help you test your product for usability. Completely updated with current industry best practices, it can give you that all-important marketplace advantage: products that perform the way users expect. You?ll learn to recognize factors that limit usability, decide where testing should occur, set up a test plan to assess goals for your product?s usability, and more.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911141820103321

Autore

Hartlef Michael

Titolo

Monkey game development : beginner's guide : create monetized 2D games deployable to almost any platform / / Michael Hartlef

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Birmingham [England], : Packt Pub., 2012

ISBN

9786613555496

9781280377587

1280377585

9781849692090

1849692092

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (403 p.)

Collana

Learn by doing : less theory, more results

Disciplina

004.019

794.8/1526

Soggetti

Video games - Design

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Monkey-Huh?; Game development for the rest of us; Cross-platform development; Compiler or translator?; The Monkey toolbox; Time for action - installing Monkey; Please welcome... Monk; MSERVER-Monkey's own web server; Let's have a little playtime; Time for action - playing Pirate TriPeaks; Time for action - playing Surviball; Playing to have fun, playing to study; So let's go for something big? No!; The alternative; Time for action - read the manual



The Trans tool and the supported target platformsHTML5; FLASH; iOS; Android; XNA; GLFW; The Monkey standard modules; Lang; Lists; Map; Math; Random; Set; Stack; Mojo - The 2D framework/modules; App; Audio; Graphics; Input; Monkey is extendable; Your own modules; Native source code; Third-party modules; Your own targets; Your game is easily portable; Summary; Chapter 2: Getting to Know your Monkey-a Trip to the Zoo; Call the Monk and start praying-the Monkey IDE; Why learn about Monk?; Starting up Monk; Monk's user interface; The toolbar; The code editor area; The info box

Time for action - opening a sample scriptWhere is my navi?; Time for action - navigating to the Main() function; Save... save... save!; Time for action - saving a script; Projects-bringing in some organization; Time for action - creating a project; The Monkey programming language; Time for action - Monkey's Hello World; Running your first script in a browser; Our first little game... PONGO; Time for action - the basic structure of your game; Pongo's data structure; Time for action - adding some data fields; Time for action - rendering the game field

Time for action - drawing the ball and the paddlesTime for action - player paddle movement; Time for action - moving the enemy paddles; Time for action - moving the ball; Time for action - controlling the ball with the player's paddle; Time for action - letting the enemy paddles fight back; Time for action - acting on the different game modes; Exporting your game as an HTML5 website; One more thing... comment your code!; Summary; Chapter 3: Game #2, Rocket Commander; The game objects; The basic file structure; Time for action - building the basic file structure of the game

Hold that data-RocketCommander's data structureTime for action - creating the general data structure of the game; Detailing the Update process; Time for action - detailing the Update process; Detailing the Render process; Time for action - detailing the Render event; Enhancing the OnCreate event; Time for action - detailing the OnCreate process; Let's build some cities; Time for action - building some cities; Implementing the city class into the game; Time for action - changing the gameClasses file; Modifying the RocketCommander class; Time for action - spawning some cities in the game

Rendering the ground and the cities

Sommario/riassunto

The first two chapters will provide you with grounding in Monkey. In each subsequent chapter you will create a complete game deployable to either iOS, Android, HTML5, FLASH, OSX, Windows and XNA. The last chapter will show you how to monetize the games so you can be commercially successful in the app development world. Do you want to quickly create games deployable to all the major desktop and mobile platforms?, if so look no further. You will learn how to utilize the highly versatile Monkey compiler to create 2d games deployable almost anywhere. No game development or programming experience i