Johnson GUI Bloopers 2.0

Common User Interface Design Don'ts and Dos
2. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-0-08-055214-9
Verlag: Morgan Kaufmann
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 424 Seiten, Format (B × H): 191 mm x 235 mm

Reihe: Interactive Technologies

Is your application or Web site ready for prime time?

A major revision of a classic reference, GUI Bloopers 2.0 looks at user interface design bloopers from commercial software, Web sites, Web applications, and information appliances, explaining how intelligent, well-intentioned professionals make these mistakes--and how you can avoid them. While equipping you with the minimum of theory, GUI expert Jeff Johnson presents the reality of interface design in an entertaining, anecdotal, and instructive way.


* Updated to reflect the bloopers that are common today, incorporating many comments and suggestions from first edition readers.

* Takes a learn-by-example approach that teaches how to avoid common errors.

* Covers bloopers in a wide range of categories: GUI controls, graphic design and layout, text messages, interaction strategies, Web site design -- including search, link, and navigation, responsiveness issues, and management decision-making.

* Organized and formatted so information needed is quickly found, the new edition features call-outs for the examples and informative captions to enhance quick knowledge building.

* Hundreds of illustrations: both the DOs and the DON'Ts for each topic covered, with checklists and additional bloopers on www.gui-bloopers.com.

Zielgruppe

This book is for professional software engineers, web designers, and interaction designers working on all kinds of products: web based software applications, software applications for delivery on PCs as well as phones or other appliances, text design on web sites, and so on. These are people who have responsibility for developing the user interaction, but who have little or no formal training in interaction design and usability engineering. These are people who are unlikely to read big textbooks on user interface design, and who prefer terse, bulletized, and diagrammatic explanations.

Naturally, we had lots of customers of the first edition who are experienced interaction designers who, although experts, still find the book useful. The first edition also had a dozen or two adoptions in the first three years of sale

Autoren/Hrsg.

Johnson, Jeff

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Betriebssysteme

Inhaltsverzeichnis

First Principles; GUI Control Bloopers; Navigation Bloopers; Textual Bloopers; Graphic Design & Layout Bloopers; Interaction Bloopers; Responsiveness Bloopers; Management Bloopers; Web Appendix - Color Bloopers; Appendices

Über Autor(innen)

Johnson, Jeff
<p><b>Jeff Johnson</b> is president and principal consultant at UI Wizards, Inc., a product usability consulting firm (<a href="http://www.uiwizards.com">www.uiwizards.com</a>). He has worked in the field of Human-Computer Interaction since 1978--as software designer and implementer, usability tester, manager, researcher at several computer and telecommunications companies, and consultant. In the course of his career, he has written many articles, cowritten several books, and given numerous presentations on a variety of topics in Human-Computer Interaction.