Interface for an App—The design rationale leading to an app that allows someone with Type 1 diabetes to self-manage their condition
eBook - PDF

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

  1. English
  2. PDF
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

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

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Copyright Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Terminology
  7. Affordance
  8. Mental Models and Metaphors
  9. Dialogue
  10. Exploration
  11. Chapter Summaries
  12. Introduction
  13. The Requirements
  14. Structure and Layout
  15. Interface Metaphors
  16. Dialogue
  17. Data Entry
  18. Explore
  19. Favourites
  20. Photographs
  21. Exercise
  22. Health
  23. Advice
  24. A Dialogue Check
  25. Conclusions
  26. Reflections on Affordance and Design
  27. Colleagues
  28. Interaction Consistency
  29. A Novel Usability Tool
  30. References
  31. Author Biography