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Designing for Performance

Author : Lara Callender Hogan

Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

Page : 181 pages

File Size : 45,6 MB

Release : 2014-12-04

Category : Computers

ISBN : 1491903732

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As a web designer, you encounter tough choices when it comes to weighing aesthetics and performance. Good content, layout, images, and interactivity are essential for engaging your audience, and each of these elements have an enormous impact on page load time and the end-user experience. In this practical book, Lara Hogan helps you approach projects with page speed in mind, showing you how to test and benchmark which design choices are most critical. To get started, all you need are basic HTML and CSS skills and Photoshop experience. Topics include: The impact of page load time on your site, brand, and users Page speed basics: how browsers retrieve and render content Best practices for optimizing and loading images How to clean up HTML and CSS, and optimize web fonts Mobile-first design with performance goals by breakpoint Using tools to measure performance as your site evolves Methods for shaping an organization’s performance culture



Performance Design

Author : Dorita Hannah

Publisher : Museum Tusculanum Press

Page : 332 pages

File Size : 13,45 MB

Release : 2008

Category : Art

ISBN : 8763507846

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Explores the speculative and projective acts of designing performance and performing design. This work offers a range of performative expressions across disciplines, where design artefacts - objects, gestures, images, occasions and environments - are aligned to performance through notions of embodiment, action and event.



Performance by Design

Author : Daniel A. Menascé

Publisher : Prentice Hall Professional

Page : 484 pages

File Size : 23,71 MB

Release : 2004

Category : Computers

ISBN : 9780130906731

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Practical, real-world solutions are given to potential problems covering the entire system life cycle. This book describes how to map real-life systems (databases, data centers, and e-commerce applications) into analytic performance models. The authors elaborate upon these models and use them to help the reader better understand performance issues.



Designing Organizations for High Performance

Author : David P. Hanna

Publisher : Prentice Hall

Page : 220 pages

File Size : 38,34 MB

Release : 1988

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN :

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A practical guide to developing higher levels of performance in large organizations through changes in strategy, organization design, and culture. This guide presents detailed descriptions of ways in which individuals intervened in their organizations, how they arrived at their plans, and how it resulted in improved effectiveness and better business results for the organization.



Design Performance

Author : Francis J. O'Donnell

Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media

Page : 240 pages

File Size : 43,30 MB

Release : 2005-04-07

Category : Architecture

ISBN : 9781852338893

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The impact of design development on the overall success of a business positions the area as an important performance improvement opportunity. However, design development is exemplified by novelty and non-repeatability, characteristics which provide particular challenges in the definition, measurement and management of performance with a view to improvement. Design Performance scrutinizes the support for improvement in design development provided by research into general business processes and design in particular. The nature of design development in industrial practice is explored and requirements for its modelling and analysis are highlighted. The methods employed encapsulate a formalism composed of three models: E2 formalises and relates the effectiveness and efficiency of a design; Design Activity Management distinguishes design and design management in terms of the knowledge processed in each activity; Performance Measurement and Management describes how these activities relate to each other within the milieu of measurement and management. A computer-based tool that enables the industrial implementation of the PERFORM approach (analysing the influence of resources on an aspect of design performance) and the identification of appropriate means of design improvement is presented. Design Performance illustrates its methodological principles with worked examples and details of industrial practice making it suitable for an academic teaching and research readership as well as for commercial designers and managers. The impact of design development on the overall success of a business positions the area as an important performance improvement opportunity. However, design development is exemplified by novelty and non-repeatability, characteristics which provide particular challenges in the definition, measurement and management of performance with a view to improvement. Design Performance scrutinizes the support for improvement in design development provided by research into general business processes and design in particular. The nature of design development in industrial practice is explored and requirements for its modelling and analysis are highlighted. The methods employed encapsulate a formalism composed of three models: E2 formalises and relates the effectiveness and efficiency of a design; Design Activity Management distinguishes design and design management in terms of the knowledge processed in each activity; Performance Measurement and Management describes how these activities relate to each other within the milieu of measurement and management. A computer-based tool that enables the industrial implementation of the PERFORM approach (analysing the influence of resources on an aspect of design performance) and the identification of appropriate means of design improvement is presented. Design Performance illustrates its methodological principles with worked examples and details of industrial practice making it suitable for an academic teaching and research readership as well as for commercial designers and managers.



Designing Performance Measurement Systems

Author : Fiorenzo Franceschini

Publisher : Springer

Page : 220 pages

File Size : 16,21 MB

Release : 2018-11-23

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 3030011925

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Given our rapidly changing world, companies are virtually forced to engage in continuous performance monitoring. Though Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) may at times seem to be the real driving force behind social systems, economies and organizations, they can also have far-reaching normative effects, which can modify organizational behavior and influence key decisions – even to the point that organizations themselves tend to become what they measure! Selecting the right performance indicators is hardly a simple undertaking. This book describes in detail the main characteristics of performance measurement systems and summarizes practical methods for defining KPIs, combining theoretical and practical aspects. These descriptions are supported by a wealth of practical examples. The book is intended for all academics, professionals and consultants involved in the analysis and management of KPIs.



Design Thinking for Training and Development

Author : Sharon Boller

Publisher : Association for Talent Development

Page : 225 pages

File Size : 28,51 MB

Release : 2020-06-09

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 1950496198

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Better Learning Solutions Through Better Learning Experiences When training and development initiatives treat learning as something that occurs as a one-time event, the learner and the business suffer. Using design thinking can help talent development professionals ensure learning sticks to drive improved performance. Design Thinking for Training and Development offers a primer on design thinking, a human-centered process and problem-solving methodology that focuses on involving users of a solution in its design. For effective design thinking, talent development professionals need to go beyond the UX, the user experience, and incorporate the LX, the learner experience. In this how-to guide for applying design thinking tools and techniques, Sharon Boller and Laura Fletcher share how they adapted the traditional design thinking process for training and development projects. Their process involves steps to: Get perspective. Refine the problem. Ideate and prototype. Iterate (develop, test, pilot, and refine). Implement. Design thinking is about balancing the three forces on training and development programs: learner wants and needs, business needs, and constraints. Learn how to get buy-in from skeptical stakeholders. Discover why taking requests for training, gathering the perspective of stakeholders and learners, and crafting problem statements will uncover the true issue at hand. Two in-depth case studies show how the authors made design thinking work. Job aids and tools featured in this book include: a strategy blueprint to uncover what a stakeholder is trying to solve an empathy map to capture the learner’s thoughts, actions, motivators, and challenges an experience map to better understand how the learner performs. With its hands-on, use-it-today approach, this book will get you started on your own journey to applying design thinking.



Designing and Developing Electronic Performance Support Systems

Author : Lesley A. Brown

Publisher : Digital Press

Page : 216 pages

File Size : 38,95 MB

Release : 1996

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 9781555581398

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An EPSS is a software context that integrates the support needed to perform a job task--information, software, and expert advice--with the actual job task or tasks. EPSS's provide this support at the appropriate time and in the most appropriate format--ED4 (EPSS Define, Design, Develop, and Deliver). This book describes ED4 and the process that the instructional designers and software engineers used to create the Learning Services Workbench.



Performance Modeling and Design of Computer Systems

Author : Mor Harchol-Balter

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 573 pages

File Size : 48,77 MB

Release : 2013-02-18

Category : Computers

ISBN : 1107027500

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Written with computer scientists and engineers in mind, this book brings queueing theory decisively back to computer science.



Extreme Textiles

Author : Maltida McQuaid

Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press

Page : 270 pages

File Size : 32,22 MB

Release : 2005-06-02

Category : Fibrous composites

ISBN : 9781568985077

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"Featuring examples of fully realized products from all classes of technical textiles--architectural, product design, apparel, medicine, transportation, aerospace, industry, and the environment--Extreme Textiles highlights successful collaborations between design, industry, and science. Large, full-color illustrations and essays by some of today's most influential designers and scientists trace the extraordinary developments made in textiles over the last twenty years and suggest what is to come"--Back cover.