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User Interface Design for Mere Mortals®
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User Interface Design for Mere Mortals®

by Eric Butow
May 2007
Beginner
312 pages
7h 8m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Introduction

Who Should Read This Book

The Purpose of This Book

How to Read This Book

How This Book Is Organized

CHAPTER 1    Brief Histories

The History of Graphical User Interfaces

Xerox Alto

Apple Macintosh

Microsoft Windows

Linux

The History of Web Design

The Birth of the Internet

Mosaic

The Netscape Revolution

Internet Explorer and Its Impact on Design

Differences in Look and Feel

Windows GUI

Mac OS GUI

Linux GUI

Web Pages

Java and Other Web Programs

Summary

Review Questions

CHAPTER 2    Concepts and Issues

Computing Terms

Graphical User Interface (GUI)

Operating Systems

Parts of a GUI

Internet

World Wide Web

User Interface Models

Batch Interface

Command-Line Interface

The Text User Interface ...

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