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Simplified Design of Data Converters
Author John Lenk
Simplified Design of Data Converters shows how to design and experiment with data converters, both analog-to-digital and digital to analog. The design approach here is the same one used in all of John Lenk's best-selling books on simplified and practical design. Th....
Release Date 1997/06 -
Information Architecture for the World Wide Web
Author Louis Rosenfeld , Peter Morville
Some web sites "work" and some don't. Good web site consultants know that you can't just jump in and start writing HTML, the same way you can't build a house by just pouring a foundation and putting up some walls. You need to know who will be using the site, and....
Release Date 1998/02 -
Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy
Author Hal R. Varian , Carl Shapiro
In Information Rules, authors Shapiro and Varian reveal that many classic economic concepts can provide the insight and understanding necessary to succeed in the information age. They argue that if managers seriously want to develop effective strategies for competin....
Release Date 1998/10 -
Author Jakob Nielsen
Users experience the usability of a web site before they have committed to using it and before making any purchase decisions. The web is the ultimate environment for empowerment, and he or she who clicks the mouse decides everything. Designing Web Usability is the d....
Release Date 1999/12 -
Teach SMEs to Design Training—Instructional Systems Design
Author Linda J. Elengold
This issue provides guidelines and background information to help subject matter experts (SMEs) develop instructional design skills. The issue covers the basics of adult learning, the ADDIE model, and selecting techniques and materials. Includes a course evaluation ....
Release Date 2001/06 -
Author John M. Carroll , Mary Beth Rosson
You don't need to be convinced. You know that usability is key to the success of any interactive system-from commercial software to B2B Web sites to handheld devices. But you need skills to make usability part of your product development equation. How will you asse....
Release Date 2001/10 -
Author Diane Walter
"This guide is essential for anyone who wants to set up a successful on-the-job training program. This book has everything you need, includingAn eight-step model for setting up a structured, team-driven, on-the-job training programEasy-to-understand templates, instr....
Release Date 2001/12 -
Business Expectations: Are You Using Technology to its Fullest?
Author Jeffrey Blander , Bryan Bergeron
PRAISE FOR BUSINESS EXPECTATIONSARE YOU USING TECHNOLOGY TO ITS FULLEST?"In the wake of the new economy hype, Business Expectations: Are You Using Technology to Its Fullest? provides a cogent analysis of the practical challenges involved in managing technology ventu....
Release Date 2002/04 -
Customer-Centered Design: A New Approach to Web Usability
Author Karen Hyatt , Kreta Chandler
"This book provides readers what they need to know to greatly enhance website usability and the customer online shopping experience" —Jakob Nielsen, author of best-selling title, Designing Web UsabilityTo succeed on the web, companies must understand their customer....
Release Date 2002/08 -
Author Wayne F Cascio
Firms that restructure through downsizing are not more profitable than those that don't, and often end up hurting themselves in the long run. Responsible Restructuring draws on the results of an eighteen-year study of S&P 500 firms to prove that it makes g....
Release Date 2002/09 -
Real Web Project Management: Case Studies and Best Practices from the Trenches
Author Gregory A. Remillard , Thomas J. Shelford
The process of designing and building today's dynamic Web applications comes with a host of challenges not typically solved by traditional project management methodologies. A wealth of practical resources, Real Web Project Management: Case Studies and Best Practice....
Release Date 2002/10 -
Leadership in Action: Face to Face - The New Learning - A Conversation with Frank P. Bordonaro
Author Editor Stephen Rush
Frank P. Bordonaro is a consultant in corporate learning, based in Wilton, Connecticut. His areas of specialty include strategies for and design of corporate learning organizations, large-scale organizational change initiatives, blended learning strategies (combinin....
Release Date 2003/08 -
Complex Responsive Processes in Organizations
Author Ralph Stacey
The past decade has seen increasing focus on the importance of information and knowledge in economic and social processes, the so-called 'knowledge economy'. This is reflected in the popularity amongst practicing managers and organizational theorists of notions of learn....
Release Date 2003/09 -
Leadership in Action: Face to Face - Unconventional Wisdom - A Conversation with Henry Mintzberg
Author Editor Stephen Rush
Mintzberg has established a reputation as an iconoclast who challenges the corporate orthodoxy of strategic planning as abstract, prescriptive analysis. Mintzberg instead views strategy as a creative, fluid, and emergent process that should be rooted in the real wor....
Release Date 2003/10 -
Author John McWade
Before and After magazine's focus on clarity and simplicity and its insistence on approaching design not as mere decoration but as an essential form of communication have won it legions of fans. If you're among them, you'll welcome the first book from B and A's ....
Release Date 2003/12 -
Leadership in Action: Face to Face - Learning from Evaluation - A Conversation with Hallie Preskill
Author Editor Stephen Rush
Hallie Preskill is a prominent figure in evaluation. A professor in the Organizational Learning and Instructional Technologies graduate program at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, She recently spoke with CCL's Jannifer Martineau
Release Date 2004/02 -
Web Application Design Handbook
Author Victor Stanwick , Susan Fowler
The standards for usability and interaction design for Web sites and software are well known. While not everyone uses those standards, or uses them correctly, there is a large body of knowledge, best practice, and proven results in those fields, and a good edu....
Release Date 2004/07 -
Scenarios, Stories, Use Cases: Through the Systems Development Life-Cycle
Author Neil Maiden , Ian F. Alexander
Extending the scenario method beyond interface design, this important book shows developers how to design more effective systems by soliciting, analyzing, and elaborating stories from end-usersContributions from leading industry consultants and opinion-makers presen....
Release Date 2004/09 -
Author Catherine Courage , Kathy Baxter
Today many companies are employing a user-centered design (UCD) process, but for most companies, usability begins and ends with the usability test. Although usability testing is a critical part of an effective user-centered life cycle, it is only one componen....
Release Date 2005/01 -
Author Donato Marrazzo , Daniel Koch , Sook Chua , Ralf Bracht , Corville Allen , William Mo
This IBM Redbooks publication focuses on issues associated with the integration of an existing enterprise information system (EIS) into a new Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE), and other service-oriented applications. The book specifically discusses quality....
Release Date 2005/02 -
Leadership in Action: Face to Face - Embracing Difference - A Conversation with Johnnetta Cole
Author Editor Stephen Rush
Johnnetta Cole is president of Bennett College for Women, a historically black college in Greensboro, North Carolina. She has a long and distinguished career as an educator and humanitarian. She recently spoke with CCL's Ancella Livers
Release Date 2005/06 -
Access by Design: A Guide to Universal Usability for Web Designers
Author Sarah Horton
In just over a decade, the Web has evolved from an experimental tool for a limited community of technically inclined people into a day-to-day necessity for millions upon millions of users. Today’s Web designers must consider not only the content needs of the sites t....
Release Date 2005/07 -
Author Simson Garfinkel , Lorrie Faith Cranor
Human factors and usability issues have traditionally played a limited role in security research and secure systems development. Security experts have largely ignored usability issues--both because they often failed to recognize the importance of human factors and b....
Release Date 2005/08 -
Campus Network Design Fundamentals
Author Catherine Paquet , Diane Teare
The all-in-one guide to modern routed and switched campus network design Understand the network design process and network design modelsLearn how switches are used in network designDesign an IP addressing plan and select appropriate IP routing protocolsApply network....
Release Date 2005/12 -
Idealized Design: Creating an Organization’s Future
Author Herbert J. Addison , Jason Magidson , Russell L. Ackoff
What's the best way to drive fundamental, transformative change within your organization? Envision your ideal solution: then, work backwards to where you are. It's called idealized design, and -- as executives in hundreds of organizations will testify -- it's one....
Release Date 2006/04 -
Author Hoa Loranger , Jakob Nielsen
In 2000, Jakob Nielsen, the world’s leading expert on Web usability, published a book that changed how people think about the Web—Designing Web Usability (New Riders). Many applauded. A few jeered. But everyone listened. The best-selling usability guru is back and h....
Release Date 2006/04 -
Inside/Outside: From the Basics to the Practice of Design, Second Edition
Author Malcolm Grear
Renowned artist and design legend Malcolm Grear has permanently shaped the design world with his work, lecturing, writing and teaching. Grear approaches design by looking at the inner parts of an object, process, or idea in order to understand the whole. He believes....
Release Date 2006/06 -
The User Is Always Right: A Practical Guide to Creating and Using Personas for the Web
Author Ziv Yaar , Steve Mulder
How do we ensure that our Web sites actually give users what they need? What are the best ways to understand our users' goals, behaviors, and attitudes, and then turn that understanding into business results? Personas bring user research to life and make it actiona....
Release Date 2006/08