A major revision of a classic reference, GUI Bloopers 2.0 looks at user interface design bloopers from commercial software, Web sites, and information appliances, explaining how intelligent, well-intentioned professionals make these dreadful mistakes--and how you can avoid them. While equipping you with all the theory needed to learn from these examples, GUI expert Jeff Johnson also presents the reality of interface design in an entertaining, anecdotal, and instructive way.
* Major revision and expansion of a popular book that addresses reader mail and requests with all new examples and checklists for each type of blooper!
* Takes a learn-by-example approach that teaches how to avoid common errors.
* Covers bloopers in a wide range of categories: GUI components, layout and appearance, text messages, interaction strategies, Web site design--including search, link, and navigation bloopers, responsiveness issues, and management decision-making.
* Organized and formatted based on the results of its own usability testing, so information needed can be quickly found. The new edition features call-outs for the examples, informative captions, and checklists, to enhance quick knowledge building.
* Full color treatment with hundreds of illustrations: both the DOs and the DON'Ts, for each topic covered.
A major revision of a classic reference, GUI Bloopers 2.0 looks at user interface design bloopers from commercial software, Web sites, and information appliances, explaining how intelligent, well-intentioned professionals make these dreadful mistakes--and how you can avoid them. While equipping you with all the theory needed to learn from these examples, GUI expert Jeff Johnson also presents the reality of interface design in an entertaining, anecdotal, and instructive way.
* Major revision and expansion of a popular book that addresses reader mail and requests with all new examples and checklists for each type of blooper!
* Takes a learn-by-example approach that teaches how to avoid common errors.
* Covers bloopers in a wide range of categories: GUI components, layout and appearance, text messages, interaction strategies, Web site design--including search, link, and navigation bloopers, responsiveness issues, and management decision-making.
* Organized and formatted based on the results of its own usability testing, so information needed can be quickly found. The new edition features call-outs for the examples, informative captions, and checklists, to enhance quick knowledge building.
* Full color treatment with hundreds of illustrations: both the DOs and the DON'Ts, for each topic covered.
Completely updated and revised version 2.0 of Jeff Johnson's GUI Bloopers!
First Principles; GUI Control Bloopers; Navigation Bloopers; Textual Bloopers; Graphic Design & Layout Bloopers; Interaction Bloopers; Responsiveness Bloopers; Management Bloopers; Web Appendix – Color Bloopers; Appendices
Jeff Johnson is president and principal consultant at UI Wizards, Inc., a product usability consulting firm (www.uiwizards.). He has worked in the field of Human-Computer Interaction since 1978, as a software designer and implementer, usability tester, manager, researcher at several computer and telecommunications companies, and as a consultant. In the course of his career, he has written many articles, cowritten several books, and given numerous presentations on a variety of topics in Human-Computer Interaction.
"If you are a software developer, read this book: especially if you don't think you need it. Don't worry, it isn't filled with abstract and useless theory--this is a book for doers, and those in the trenches. Buy it, read it, and take two sections daily." --Don Norman, Nielsen Norman Group
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