The Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition
Cooper, who designed Visual Basic (the programming environment Microsoft promotes for the purpose of creating good user interfaces), indulges in too much name-dropping and self-congratulation (Cooper attributes the quote, "How did you do that?" to Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, upon looking at one of Cooper's creations)--but this appears to be de rigueur in books about the software industry. But those asides are minor. More valuable is the discourse about software design and implementation ("[O]bject orientation divides the 1000-brick tower into 10 100-brick towers."). Read this book for an idea of what's wrong with UI design. --David Wall
Topics covered: User interfaces--good ones and bad ones--and where they come from. Also, how to improve the ones you create.
Country | USA |
Brand | Sams Publishing |
Manufacturer | Sams - Pearson Education |
Binding | Paperback |
ItemPartNumber | 9780672326141 |
UnitCount | 1 |
Format | Illustrated |
UPCs | 752063326145 |
EANs | 9780672326141 |
ReleaseDate | 0000-00-00 |