GUI Bloopers 2.0

Common User Interface Design Don'ts and Dos
2 ed
ISBN: 978-0-12-370643-0
Verlag: Elsevier Science & Technology

Buch, Englisch, 424 Seiten, Format (B × H): 192 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 880 g

Reihe: Interactive Technologies

GUI Bloopers 2.0, Second Edition, is the completely updated and revised version of GUI Bloopers. It 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. GUI expert Jeff Johnson presents the reality of interface design in an entertaining, anecdotal, and instructive way while equipping readers with the minimum of theory.

This updated version reflects the bloopers that are common today, incorporating many comments and suggestions from first edition readers. It covers bloopers in a wide range of categories including 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.

This book is recommended for software engineers, web designers, web application developers, and interaction designers working on all kinds of products.

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 Programmierung | Softwareentwicklung Software Engineering

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
Jeff Johnson is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of San Francisco. He is also a principal at Wiser Usability, a consultancy focused on elder usability. After earning B.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Yale and Stanford, he worked as a UI designer, implementer, manager, usability tester, and researcher at Cromemco, Xerox, US West, Hewlett-Packard, and Sun. He has taught at Stanford, Mills, and the University of Canterbury. He is a member of the ACM SIGCHI Academy and a recipient of SIGCHI's Lifetime Achievement in Practice Award. He has authored articles on a variety of topics in HCI, as well as the books GUI Bloopers (1st and 2nd eds.), Web Bloopers, Designing with the Mind in Mind (1st and 2nd eds.), Conceptual Models: Core to Good Design (with Austin Henderson), and Designing User Interfaces for an Aging Population (with Kate Finn).