GUI Design Taboos

Author: Johnson
Publisher:
Publish Date: 2005-02-01
Features:
· Employs a case study approach, teaching readers to avoid common mistakes by highlighting issues in typical interface designs.
· Includes two complete project design case studies based on the author's personal experiences.
· Categorizes errors into various types: GUI components, layout and appearance, text messages, interaction strategies, web site design, responsiveness issues, management decisions, and more types of errors from www.gui-bloopers.com.
· Organized and formatted based on the author's own usability test results—allowing readers to quickly find the information they need and choose what to read based on their requirements.
This book describes the "taboos" that software developers often encounter when designing graphical user interfaces (GUIs) and proposes basic principles and theoretical foundations for avoiding these taboos. The author of this book has worked in the design, evaluation, and testing of software product user interfaces for over 20 years, with extensive practical experience. He categorizes GUI taboos into seven types: GUI components, layout and appearance, text, interaction, web, responsiveness, and management, and describes each type separately. The book also illustrates various GUI taboos and how to avoid them through two case studies.
With its unique organization and highly targeted content, this book is an invaluable resource for GUI design excellence. It is suitable for software engineers, web site designers, development process managers, quality assurance experts, and product usability specialists.