GUI Design Handbook

By Susan L. Fowler

Susan Fowler descends on the interface scene with a book that should prove to be a valuable resource for the independent developer. GUI Design Handbook lists all the major GUI components--buttons, check boxes, sliders, labels, and more--alphabetically, like encyclopedia entries. Each component's entry comes with a list of good uses (use a message box to explain an error), a list of bad uses (don't use a tabbed dialog box to present a sequence of events), and plenty of information about usability and how users intuitively perceive particular components. The text is rife with references to academic and technical papers, so you can get more information on particular details if you like. There is no language- or platform-specific information here. This book is about designing good-looking, intelligent interfaces, and it excels at that task. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0070592748
• ISBN13: 9780070592742
• Release Date: December 1997
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.4" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

For MS-Win95x platforms only

("There is no language- or platform-specific information here") says the editorial review. i.e. this book is not a syntax guide.But nonetheless this book is solely about designing Windows-9x GUIs.Without having read the others, only Susan Weinschenk looks like being an intelligent platform-neutral book on this topic.