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GUI Bloopers Jeff Johnson (President and Principal Consultant, UI Wizards, Inc.)

GUI Bloopers By Jeff Johnson (President and Principal Consultant, UI Wizards, Inc.)

Summary

Looks at user interface design bloopers from commercial software, Web sites, and information appliances, explaining how intelligent, well-intentioned professionals made these dreadful mistakes - and how you can avoid them. This work is suitable for software engineers, Web site designers, managers of development processes and QA professionals.

GUI Bloopers Summary

GUI Bloopers: Don'ts and Do's for Software Developers and Web Designers by Jeff Johnson (President and Principal Consultant, UI Wizards, Inc.)

GUI Bloopers looks at user interface design bloopers from commercial software, Web sites, and information appliances, explaining how intelligent, well-intentioned professionals made 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. This is an excellent, well-illustrated resource for anyone whose work touches on usability issues, including software engineers, Web site designers, managers of development processes, QA professionals, and usability professionals. Hear Jeff Johnson's interview podcast on software and website usability at the University of Canterbury (25 min.)

GUI Bloopers Reviews

Better read this book, or your design will be featured in Bloopers II. Seriously, bloopers may be fun in Hollywood outtakes, but no movie director would include them in the final film. So why do we find so many bloopers in shipped software? Follow Jeff Johnson as he leads the blooper patrol deep into enemy territory: he takes no prisoners but reveals all the design stupidities that users have been cursing over the years. Jakob Nielsen, Usability Guru, Nielsen Norman Group 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, code writers, and those in the front trenches. Buy it, read it, and take two sections daily. Don Norman, President, UNext Learning Systems

About Jeff Johnson (President and Principal Consultant, UI Wizards, Inc.)

Jeff Johnson is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of San Francisco. He is also a principal at Wiser Usability, a consultancy focused on elder usability. After earning B.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Yale and Stanford, he worked as a UI designer, implementer, manager, usability tester, and researcher at Cromemco, Xerox, US West, Hewlett-Packard, and Sun. He has taught at Stanford, Mills, and the University of Canterbury. He is a member of the ACM SIGCHI Academy and a recipient of SIGCHI's Lifetime Achievement in Practice Award. He has authored articles on a variety of topics in HCI, as well as the books GUI Bloopers (1st and 2nd eds.), Web Bloopers, Designing with the Mind in Mind (1st and 2nd eds.), Conceptual Models: Core to Good Design (with Austin Henderson), and Designing User Interfaces for an Aging Population (with Kate Finn).

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: First Principles Chapter 2: GUI Component Bloopers Chapter 3: Layout and Appearance Bloopers Chapter 4: Textual Bloopers Chapter 5: Interaction Bloopers Chapter 6: Web Bloopers Chapter 7: Responsiveness Bloopers Chapter 8: Management Bloopers Chapter 9: Software Reviews Chapter 10: War Stories of a User-Interface Consultant

Additional information

GOR012426295
9781558605824
1558605827
GUI Bloopers: Don'ts and Do's for Software Developers and Web Designers by Jeff Johnson (President and Principal Consultant, UI Wizards, Inc.)
Used - Well Read
Paperback
Elsevier Science & Technology
20000414
576
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