About Face: Essentials of Window Interface Design - Softcover

Rathbone, Andy

 
9781568843223: About Face: Essentials of Window Interface Design
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1568843224 ISBN 13: 9781568843223
Verlag: Hungry Minds Inc,U.S., 1995

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This text provides information on designing on an interface and creating new Windows. It contains practical examples.

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About the Author Alan Cooper is one of the most respected software designers of our time. He is the winner of the Microsoft Windows Pioneer Award for his work in designing Visual Basic. He is also one of the most outspoken critics of how the software industry goes about building the interface between products and people. His thirteen-year-old software design consulting company, Cooper Interaction Design, is based in Palo Alto, CA.

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About Face The Essentials of User Interface Design Cooper Interaction Design Dear Reader, This book has a simple premise: if achieving the user's goals is the basis of our user interface design, then the user will be satisfied and happy. If the user is happy, he will gladly pay us money, and then we will be successful. To those who are intrigued by the technology ? which includes most of us programmer types ? we share a strong tendency to think in terms of functions and features. This is only natural, since this is how we build software: function by function. The problem is that this isn't how users want to use software. Developers are frequently frustrated by this, because it requires us to think in an unfamiliar way. But after the initial strangeness wears off, goal-directed design is a boon ? it is a powerful tool for answering the most important questions that crop up during the design phase:

  • What should be the form of the program?
  • How will the user interact with the program?
  • How can the program's functions be most effectively organized?
  • How will the program introduce itself to first-time users?
  • How can the program put an understandable and controllable face on technology?
  • How can the program deal with problems?
  • How will the program help infrequent users become more expert?
  • How can the program provide sufficient depth for expert users?
In About Face, you'll explore new ways to look at what you work with every day, learning how to create workable designs in the real world, on a real deadline, inside a real budget. Sincerely, Alan Cooper President Cooper Interaction Design "Alan Cooper is the ?Miss Manners' of software design? My advice is to buy two copies? autograph the second and send it to an engineer at Microsoft." ? Paul Saffo, Director, Institute for the Future "About Face defines a new interface design vocabulary that speaks to programmers in their own terms. We have come a long way from the time when there were just modal (bad) and modeless (good) interfaces, and this book reflects that progress." ? Charles Simonyi, Chief Architect, Microsoft Corp.

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Verlag
Hungry Minds Inc,U.S.
Erscheinungsdatum
1995
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1568843224
ISBN 13 
9781568843223
Einband
Tapa blanda
Anzahl der Seiten
580
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