GUI Bloopers 2.0

Common User Interface Design Don'ts and Dos

By
  • Jeff Johnson, Ph.D., Founder, UI Wizards, Inc., San Francisco, CA

Is your application or Web site ready for prime time? A major revision of a classic reference, GUI Bloopers 2.0 looks at user interface design bloopers from commercial software, Web sites, Web applications, and information appliances, explaining how intelligent, well-intentioned professionals make these mistakes--and how you can avoid them. While equipping you with the minimum of theory, GUI expert Jeff Johnson presents the reality of interface design in an entertaining, anecdotal, and instructive way.

Audience
Software engineers, web designers, web application developers,and interaction designers working on all kinds of products: web based software applications, software applications for delivery on PCs as well as phones or other appliances, text design on web sites, and so on.

Paperback, 424 Pages

Published: August 2007

Imprint: Morgan Kaufmann

ISBN: 978-0-12-370643-0

Contents

  • First Principles; GUI Control Bloopers; Navigation Bloopers; Textual Bloopers; Graphic Design & Layout Bloopers; Interaction Bloopers; Responsiveness Bloopers; Management Bloopers; Web Appendix – Color Bloopers; Appendices

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