Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 001.64
EAN num: 9780134450247
ISBN number: 0134450248
Label: Digital Pr
Manufacturer: Digital Pr
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 385
Printing Date: 1984-09
Publishing house: Digital Pr
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UI design has moved forward a lot since this book came out, but there's still material of value here. The suggestions about user-oriented language are still important, including the help your tech writer has to offer. Task analysis, although this predates commercial acceptance of OO, sounds a lot like the Agile world's "stories." And testing - it's just as important now as ever, especially for mission-critical interfaces, for mass-produced products where errors are costly, and for unfmailiar application areas (do you really know how a radiologist reads an Xray, for example?). Too bad most projects lack the schedule or budget for UI testing these days - but, thanks to books like this, good UI design is much more widely understood these days.
Still, after more than 20 years, so much has changed in the world that this book won't have the impact it did back in the day. Don't bother hunting this book down - but if you find it, thumb through it for its 100 or so aphoristic "guidelines." Many of them still apply, including:
- Verify that help helps. (Does the user really know what those words mean?)
- Coordinate all system responses. (Don't use a crazy quilt of mismatched terminology.)
- Avoid clutter. (Read Tufte if you don't know what this means - or even if you do.)
//wiredweird
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