April 2007
Beginner
888 pages
26h 43m
English
book
The Essential Guide to User Interface Design: An Introduction to GUI Design Principles and Techniques, 3rd Edition
by Wilbert O. Galitz
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Index
A
accelerators, keyboard, 335–337, 435
accessibility issues
color use, 714
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
action:object approach, 27
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
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
Altus system, 7
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 Human Interface Guidelines for the Macintosh, 122
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
auditory commands, 14
auditory feedback, 18
automated evaluation methods, ...
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