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GUI Bloopers 2.0, 2nd Edition
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GUI Bloopers 2.0, 2nd Edition

by Jeff Johnson
October 2007
Beginner to intermediate
424 pages
12h 7m
English
Morgan Kaufmann
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Textual Bloopers

Introduction

One irony of graphical user interfaces is that most aren’t very graphical. The typical GUI contains a lot of text:

  •  The labels for commands in menus or on buttons are mostly text.
  •  Instructions are almost always text.
  •  Most user input consists of typing or selecting words and numbers.
  •  The labels on most controls and form fields are text.
  •  The names users assign to data files and other data objects are always tex tual.
  •  Error and warning messages are mainly textual, even if highlighted with a color or a symbol.

Therefore, do not underestimate the importance of text in GUIs.

Software designers ...

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ISBN: 9780123706430