Please note: In order to keep Hive up to date and provide users with the best features, we are no longer able to fully support Internet Explorer. The site is still available to you, however some sections of the site may appear broken. We would encourage you to move to a more modern browser like Firefox, Edge or Chrome in order to experience the site fully.

Interface for an App-The design rationale leading to an app that allows someone with Type 1 diabetes to self-manage their condition, Paperback / softback Book

Interface for an App-The design rationale leading to an app that allows someone with Type 1 diabetes to self-manage their condition Paperback / softback

Part of the Synthesis Lectures on Human-Centered Informatics series

Paperback / softback

Description

This book is an account of how I addressed the need for a smartphone app that would allow someone with Type 1 diabetes to self-manage their condition. Its presentation highlights the major features of the app’s interface design.

They include the selection of metaphors appropriate to a user’s need to form a mental model of the app; the importance of visible context; the benefits of consistency; and considerations of a user’s cognitive and perceptual abilities.

The latter is a key feature of the book. But the book is also about the design process, and especially about the valuable contributions made by the many focus group meetings in which design ideas were first presented to people with Type 1 diabetes.

Their critique, and sometimes their rejection, of interface ideas were crucial to the development of the app. I hope this book will prove useful for teaching and design guidance.

Information

Other Formats

Save 17%

£27.99

£23.05

 
Free Home Delivery

on all orders

 
Pick up orders

from local bookshops

Information

Also in the Synthesis Lectures on Human-Centered Informatics series  |  View all