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Most programmers' fear of user interface (UI) programming comes from their fear of doing UI design. They think that UI design is like graphic design the mysterious process by which creative, latte-drinking, all-black-wearing people produce cool-looking, artistic pieces. Most programmers see themselves as analytic, logical thinkers instead strong at reasoning, weak on artistic judgment, and incapable of doing UI design.
In this brilliantly readable book, author Joel Spolsky proposes simple, logical rules that can be applied without any artistic talent to improve any user interface, from traditional GUI applications to websites to consumer electronics. Spolsky's primary axiom, the importance of bringing the program model in line with the user model, is both rational and simple.
In a fun and entertaining way, Spolky makes user interface design easy for programmers to grasp. After reading User Interface Design for Programmers , you'll know how to design interfaces with the user in mind. You'll learn the important principles that underlie all good UI design, and you'll learn how to perform usability testing that works.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. Controlling Your Environment Makes You Happy2. Figuring Out What They Expected3. Choices4. Affordances and Metaphors5. Broken Metaphors6. Consistency and Other Hobgoblins7. Putting the User in Charge8. Design for Extremes9. People Can't Read10. People Can't Control the Mouse11. People Can't Remember12. The Process of Designing a Product13. Those Pesky Usability Tests14. Relativity: Understanding UI Time Warps15. But...How Does It Know?
