GUI Design Handbook

GUI Design Handbook
Author: Susan L. Fowler
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1998
Genre: Graphical user interfaces (Computer systems)
ISBN: 9780070592742

"Object Oriented GUI Design" explains how to create effective graphical user interfaces by using object-oriented methods and tools. GUI developers will value the book's exhaustive list of GUI components and explanation of how these components interact.

The GUI Style Guide

The GUI Style Guide
Author: Susan L. Fowler
Publisher: Academic Press
Total Pages: 444
Release: 1995
Genre: Computers
ISBN:

The GUI Style Guide provides the tools necessary for programmers to write interfaces for a variety of windowing environments. All of the guidelines are useful to programmers either creating IBM mainframe applications or writing Windows applications. It also explains how to take advantage of object-oriented programming and fourth-generation languages. * * Contains all of the information for designing an effective GUI, such as human factors, color, menu levels, and prototyping * Explains how to create an interface that makes sense to others * Demonstrates similarities between various manufacturers' underlying windowing environments * Covers examples from all sorts of software on as many hardware platforms as possible * Provdies programmers with the necessary tools to write interfaces for a variety of windowing environments. * Includes all of the guidelines necessary for programmers to create any type of windowed application, from IBM CUA mainframe to pen to Macintosh, Motif, NeXt, and Windows systems.

Microsoft Manual of Style

Microsoft Manual of Style
Author: Microsoft Corporation
Publisher: Pearson Education
Total Pages: 823
Release: 2012-01-15
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0735669791

Maximize the impact and precision of your message! Now in its fourth edition, the Microsoft Manual of Style provides essential guidance to content creators, journalists, technical writers, editors, and everyone else who writes about computer technology. Direct from the Editorial Style Board at Microsoft—you get a comprehensive glossary of both general technology terms and those specific to Microsoft; clear, concise usage and style guidelines with helpful examples and alternatives; guidance on grammar, tone, and voice; and best practices for writing content for the web, optimizing for accessibility, and communicating to a worldwide audience. Fully updated and optimized for ease of use, the Microsoft Manual of Style is designed to help you communicate clearly, consistently, and accurately about technical topics—across a range of audiences and media.

User Interface Design for Programmers

User Interface Design for Programmers
Author: Avram Joel Spolsky
Publisher: Apress
Total Pages: 152
Release: 2008-01-01
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1430208570

Most programmers' fear of user interface (UI) programming comes from their fear of doing UI design. They think that UI design is like graphic design—the mysterious process by which creative, latte-drinking, all-black-wearing people produce cool-looking, artistic pieces. Most programmers see themselves as analytic, logical thinkers instead—strong at reasoning, weak on artistic judgment, and incapable of doing UI design. In this brilliantly readable book, author Joel Spolsky proposes simple, logical rules that can be applied without any artistic talent to improve any user interface, from traditional GUI applications to websites to consumer electronics. Spolsky's primary axiom, the importance of bringing the program model in line with the user model, is both rational and simple. In a fun and entertaining way, Spolky makes user interface design easy for programmers to grasp. After reading User Interface Design for Programmers, you'll know how to design interfaces with the user in mind. You'll learn the important principles that underlie all good UI design, and you'll learn how to perform usability testing that works.

The IBM Style Guide

The IBM Style Guide
Author: Francis DeRespinis
Publisher: IBM Press
Total Pages: 413
Release: 2012
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0132101300

Straight from IBM: complete, proven guidelines for writing consistent, clear, concise, consumable, reusable, and easy to- translate content Brings together everything IBM has learned about writing outstanding technical and business content.

The Essential Guide to User Interface Design

The Essential Guide to User Interface Design
Author: Wilbert O. Galitz
Publisher: Wiley
Total Pages: 784
Release: 2002-10-15
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 047127139X

Well-designed graphical user interfaces (GUIs) for business systems can greatly increase user productivity, but designing them can be difficult and time consuming. This book walks developers through the basics of good interface design, using real-world examples from systems that are proven successes. Galitz is an internationally recognized consultant, author, and instructor with many years of experience with information systems and user interface design. Written especially for developers who may be designing user interfaces for the first time, but also extremely useful for any developer involved in GUI or Web site design. Revised to reflect the profound enhancements in interface design, specifically how Web page design has revolutionized interface design. New information covers a variety of platforms, both traditional and Web-based.

Designing with the Mind in Mind

Designing with the Mind in Mind
Author: Jeff Johnson
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 251
Release: 2013-12-17
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 012411556X

In this completely updated and revised edition of Designing with the Mind in Mind, Jeff Johnson provides you with just enough background in perceptual and cognitive psychology that user interface (UI) design guidelines make intuitive sense rather than being just a list or rules to follow. Early UI practitioners were trained in cognitive psychology, and developed UI design rules based on it. But as the field has evolved since the first edition of this book, designers enter the field from many disciplines. Practitioners today have enough experience in UI design that they have been exposed to design rules, but it is essential that they understand the psychology behind the rules in order to effectively apply them. In this new edition, you'll find new chapters on human choice and decision making, hand-eye coordination and attention, as well as new examples, figures, and explanations throughout. - Provides an essential source for user interface design rules and how, when, and why to apply them - Arms designers with the science behind each design rule, allowing them to make informed decisions in projects, and to explain those decisions to others - Equips readers with the knowledge to make educated tradeoffs between competing rules, project deadlines, and budget pressures - Completely updated and revised, including additional coverage on human choice and decision making, hand-eye coordination and attention, and new mobile and touch-screen examples throughout

The Essential Guide to User Interface Design

The Essential Guide to User Interface Design
Author: Wilbert O. Galitz
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 888
Release: 2007-04-10
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0470146222

Bringing together the results of more than 300 new design studies, an understanding of people, knowledge of hardware and software capabilities, and the author’s practical experience gained from 45 years of work with display-based systems, this book addresses interface and screen design from the user’s perspective. You will learn how to create an effective design methodology, design and organize screens and Web pages that encourage efficient comprehension and execution, and create screen icons and graphics that make displays easier and more comfortable to use.

Atomic Design

Atomic Design
Author: Brad Frost
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2016-12-05
Genre:
ISBN: 9780998296609