- Paperback: 784 pages
- Publisher: Wiley; 2 edition (May 15 2002)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0471084646
- ISBN-13: 978-0471084648
- Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 18.8 x 4.1 cm
- Shipping Weight: 1.2 Kg
- Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #687,485 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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- Well-designed graphical user interfaces (GUIs) for business systems can greatly increase user productivity, but designing them can be difficult and time consuming. This book walks developers through the basics of good interface design, using real-world examples from systems that are proven successes.
- Galitz is an internationally recognized consultant, author, and instructor with many years of experience with information systems and user interface design.
- Written especially for developers who may be designing user interfaces for the first time, but also extremely useful for any developer involved in GUI or Web site design.
- Revised to reflect the profound enhancements in interface design, specifically how Web page design has revolutionized interface design.
- New information covers a variety of platforms, both traditional and Web-based.
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An informative step-by-step guide to building user-friendly system interfaces
Well-designed graphical user interfaces (GUIs) for business systems can greatly increase user productivity. Unfortunately, designing them can be difficult and time-consuming for both novice and experienced programmers. Fortunately, Bill Galitz has written an insightful, comprehensive guide to the principles and techniques of effective UI design. Written especially for first-time developers, but also very useful for experienced developers, this book includes numerous practical examples illustrating both good and poor interface design for traditional and Web-based information systems.
Extensively updated to reflect the many changes in interface design since the first edition was published in 1996, this authoritative guide addresses interface and screen design from the user's perspective, spelling out hundreds of principles of good design in a clear and concise manner. Galitz blends the results of screen design research, knowledge concerning people, knowledge about the technical capabilities of the interface, and practical experience into designing a display-based system interface.
You'll also find detailed discussions of:
* User behavior, both innate and learned, and how it affects design
* The principles of good interface layout, including an objective measure of screen complexity
* Selecting the key components of interfaces, including windows and controls, and how they can be combined to promote efficient system use
* Designing system menus and navigation schemes
* The proper use of color and graphics
* Creating comprehensible messages and text
* Usability testing to assure system success
Well-designed graphical user interfaces (GUIs) for business systems can greatly increase user productivity. Unfortunately, designing them can be difficult and time-consuming for both novice and experienced programmers. Fortunately, Bill Galitz has written an insightful, comprehensive guide to the principles and techniques of effective UI design. Written especially for first-time developers, but also very useful for experienced developers, this book includes numerous practical examples illustrating both good and poor interface design for traditional and Web-based information systems.
Extensively updated to reflect the many changes in interface design since the first edition was published in 1996, this authoritative guide addresses interface and screen design from the user's perspective, spelling out hundreds of principles of good design in a clear and concise manner. Galitz blends the results of screen design research, knowledge concerning people, knowledge about the technical capabilities of the interface, and practical experience into designing a display-based system interface.
You'll also find detailed discussions of:
* User behavior, both innate and learned, and how it affects design
* The principles of good interface layout, including an objective measure of screen complexity
* Selecting the key components of interfaces, including windows and controls, and how they can be combined to promote efficient system use
* Designing system menus and navigation schemes
* The proper use of color and graphics
* Creating comprehensible messages and text
* Usability testing to assure system success
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1.0 out of 5 stars
Thick but absolutely vacuous, platitudinous book,
By John Doe (Bloomsbery, MO, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Essential Guide to User Interface Design: An Introduction to GUI Design Principles and Techniques (Paperback)
One of those books, you know: if you can, you don't need it, if you can't it won't help you; reminiscent of the MS UI guide -- a collection of self-evident banalities treated upon with the maxumum possible verbiage in a brutishly earnest style. Absolutely pointless waste of dead trees... the reviews below surprise me.At any rate: if curious, do not buy sight unseen -- thumb through it in a bookstore first.
2.0 out of 5 stars
This book should have been under 200 pages ..,
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This review is from: The Essential Guide to User Interface Design: An Introduction to GUI Design Principles and Techniques (Paperback)
There is useful information in this book but itcould have been said in about 1/10 of the space. Concept are repeated ad nauseum. And author uses ancient GUI styles for examples instead of current ones. Extremely painful to read.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Required for anyone who is serious about interface design,
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This review is from: The Essential Guide to User Interface Design: An Introduction to GUI Design Principles and Techniques (Paperback)
The field of interface and interaction design is formally known as Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). It is significant that a large amount of HCI deals with non-programming issues such as psychological approaches to end-user experience, social manners of the audience, and more. The Essential Guide to User Interface Design provide a comprehensive overview of the essentials of interface design. The Essential Guide to User Interface Design focuses on the actual design of the GUI. While Interaction Design: Beyond Human-Computer Interaction explains why a user may react a specific way to a GUI, The Essential Guide to User Interface Design details the principles and techniques effective for GUI design. Although the book does focus on end-user interaction with systems, the bulk of the book focuses on the actual interface design and layout. The book provides numerous examples of how small changes can affect end-user productivity, including how the selection of the appropriate component can be used to make a more efficient application. From a business perspective, Chapter 1 shows how one company saved a fortune in operational costs by simply redesigning one window in their application. While ROI is generally not a case for better GUI design, it is a compelling byproduct, nonetheless. The book is divided into two parts. The first two chapters make up Part 1 and provide an overview of the importance of the user interface. The basics of HCI and GUIs are also detailed in this section. Part 2 constitutes the bulk of the book (Chapters 3 through 16). In Part 2, the author describes 14 steps involved with the user interface design process. Steps 1 and 2 involve understanding who the end user is and the business function. Steps 3 - 14 go into the nitty gritty of interface design and address menus, windows, control selections, text and messages, and more. The Essential Guide to User Interface Design also provides screen shots that illustrate how to properly design effective user interfaces.
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