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... set up the payroll for my new company. I have four people to pay, and the payroll company has set me up with a Web-based interface in which I enter payroll information. This interface has a suctionlike ... prepare a list of instructions for the user. For example, if you were usability testing an Internet access provider, you might have an instruction to "sign up for the s...

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... numbers, but I believe it was something like one or two programs for the average DOS user versus twelve programs for a Mac user. Because all 37 In Chapter 4, I talked about how nifty tabbed ... batch of tabs slides down when you click on the back row. For an illustration of this, see Figures 5-8a through 5-8d. 32 Figure 5 -8 Those Pesky Navigation Tabs Tabs seem to be p...

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... When you design user interfaces, it's a good idea to keep two principles in mind: 1. Users don't have the manual, and if they did, they wouldn't read it. 2. In fact, users can't ... your program's user interface and give us all a break. Pretend that we are gorillas or maybe smart orangutans and that we have trouble with the mouse. Then, design your int...

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... talent to improve any user interface, from traditional GUI applications to Web sites to consumer electronics. Table of Contents User Interface Design for Programmers Foreword Introduction ... we think we're designing for users, but no matter how hard we try, we're designing for who we think the user is, and that means, sadly, that we're desi...

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... A user interface is well designed when the program model conforms to the user model. That's it. Almost all good user interface design comes down to bringing the program model and the user ... the designers' responsibility to make these choices for them so that they don't have to. It is the height of arrogance for a software designer to inflict a choice lik...

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... unloved briefcase A metaphor badly chosen is worse than no metaphor at all. Unfortunately, desktop user interface designers feel that they're breaking some kind of law if they don't ... since users are completely free to ignore the choice and get their work done anyway, this is a good use of options. 20 Chapter 4: Affordances and Metaphors Overview Developing a user in...

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... to remember are: 1. Design for people who can't read. 2. Design for people who can't use a mouse. 3. Design for people who have such bad memories they would forget their own name ... example of an interface where the designer gets out of the way and lets the user do whatever they want. CLIs can be easy to use, but they're not very 41 Chapter 8: Design...

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... Imaginary Users The best UI designers in the industry may bicker among themselves, but they all agree on one thing: you have to invent and describe some imaginary users before you can design your ... Obviously, designing software for Pete is quite different from designing software for Patricia, who, in turn, is quite different from Mike, a sixteen-year-old who runs Linux at home,...

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... means which. The general rule for how to use color was best stated by Web designer Diane Wilson: " ;Design in black and white. Add color for emphasis, when your design is complete." Strange ... yellow, manila, and blue. I decided to use one color for clients, one color for employees, one color for receipts, and the fourth color for everything else. Outrageously s...

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... wipe up the tea before it ruins another keyboard. Frustrating, huh? Most designers of email-on-the-Web interfaces are aware of this time lag, and they've compensated for it by putting ... consistent, easily understood, more obvious, and easier to get right, the programmers who use your API will 98 Chapter 17: Designing for the Web Overview The Web is an incredibly diverse...

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