The Essential Guide to User Interface Design: An Introduction to GUI Design Principles and Techniques, 3rd Edition

Index

A

abbreviations, 566, 625, 629

accelerators, keyboard, 335–337, 435

accessibility issues

accessibility design, 636–647

color use, 714

documentation, 649–650

types of disabilities, 636

usability for lower-literacy people, 647–648

usability for senior citizens, 648–649

as user interface design principle, 45, 236–237

acronyms, 566, 625, 629

action:object approach, 27

actions, 26, 117

actions bars, 393

adaptive menus, 326

aesthetics

components, 46, 141–149, 728–729

simplicity versus complexity, 56–57, 149–153

as user interface design principle, 45

affordance, 53, 349

age of users and related issues, 87, 96–99, 648–649

alignment and/or justification

borders, 159

captions/data fields, 191–201, 218

for screen composition, 738–745

text, 579

alignment points, 57, 152–153

Altus system, 7

Amiga 100, 8

anchor links, 355, 360

annoyance on part of users, 74, 76

ANSI (American National Standards Institute), 49, 123

anthropomorphic interaction style, 15, 16

anxiety reduction, 20

AOL (America OnLine), 9

appeal, visual, 46. See also aesthetics

Apple computers, 8, 9, 651

Apple Human Interface Guidelines for the Macintosh, 122

application design, 40–43

application experience, 86, 90

application windows, 400

application-oriented systems, 27

ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), 8

associative links, 355

attitude and motivation, 87, 95

attributes of objects, 26

audition, 665–666, 681–686

auditory commands, 14

auditory feedback, 18

auto skip, 212–213

automated evaluation methods, ...