Human-centered interface design for interactive systems: the latest guidelines

Author: JefRaskin
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Publish Date: 2002-08-01
Features: This is a valuable book for two reasons. First, it explains how human cognitive abilities and limitations determine which UI designs will be easy vs. difficult for people to learn and use. It can therefore help to educate those software designers who lack training in cognitive psychology. Second, it challenges longstanding GUI design assumptions, pointing out many ways in which conventional GUIs are actually bad for users. It can therefore point the way for evolution of current-day GUIs into something better. What this book is NOT is a design-guide for creating GUIs that are Windows (or Mac, M........