To get the most out of this book

Successful software is used by billions of humans around the globe. Understanding how to approach, model, and generate software solutions that your users need and want will make you more employable, and make the software you analyze, design, and code work better for your users. This book does the following:

• Introduce the reader to HCI and UX by discussing the origins of the profession and why learning HCI is essential for the 22nd century.
• Review how HCI is connected to a long history of humans making tools to solve problems.
• Articulate how HCI considers when the software will help its users.
• Discuss how HCI starts with valuing humans, and how, just as software improves, so do humans evolve too.
• Execute qualitative and quantitative methodologies for establishing humans as a feedback loop in the software design process.
• Implement a rapid prototype through software to create human-centered solutions and validate these solutions through quantitative testing methods.
• Articulate the possibilities of software’s reach into the future.