Usability in Practice: Getting Inside Your Users' Heads

Posted: Oct/12/2009 By: pankaj Points:15 Category: .NET - .NET Framework Views:88 Vote Up (0) Vote Down (0)

This article explores techniques developers can use to gather information about and incorporate their users' mental models in their software designs.Ambrose Little, Charles B. KreitzbergMSDN Magazine October 2009

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