GUI Bloopers 2.0, Second Edition: Common User Interface Design Don‘ts and Dos (Interactive Technologies)

By
Jeff Johnson, Ph.D., Founder, UI Wizards, Inc., San Francisco, CA

Description
Is your application or Web site ready for prime time? A major revision of a classic reference, GUI Bloopers 2.0 looks at user interface design bloopers from commercial software, Web sites, Web applications, and information appliances, explaining how intelligent, well–intentioned professionals make these mistakes––and how you can avoid them. While equipping you with the minimum of theory, GUI expert Jeff Johnson presents the reality of interface design in an entertaining, anecdotal, and instructive way.

Included in series
Interactive Technologies

Audience:
Software engineers, web designers, web application developers,and interaction designers working on all kinds of products: web based software applications, software applications for delivery on PCs as well as phones or other appliances, text design on web sites, and so on.



About the Author:

Jeff Johnson is president and principal consultant at UI Wizards, Inc., a product usability consulting firm (www.uiwizards.com). He has worked in the field of Human–Computer Interaction since 1978––as software designer and implementer, usability tester, manager, researcher at several computer and telecommunications companies, and consultant. In the course of his career, he has written many articles, cowritten several books, and given numerous presentations on a variety of topics in Human–Computer Interaction.