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Subject:Re: Feedback on The GUI Style Guide, please From:Gregory Keith <GKeith -at- DELRINA -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 29 Aug 1995 10:11:00 PDT
Stuart Burnfield wrote(re the GUI Style Guide, by Susan Fowler):
>Is this the right book to read? What else should I look at? Note that I
>don't need to master the entire field of interface design (well, I
>probably do, but I don't have time) -- I just want to understand the
>basic principles.
A couple of other good references on the topic are:
INTERFACE DESIGN
The Art of Human-Computer Interface Design, edited by Brenda Laurel.(NY:
Addison-Wesley, 1994). 523 pages, $39.95 (Can.) softcover.
User-Interface Screen Design, by Wilbert O. Galitz. 4th edition. (NY: John
Wiley & Sons, 1992). ISBN 0471561568.
Greg
Gregory Keith
Documentation Specialist
Delrina Canada
gkeith -at- delrina -dot- com
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