Designing the user interface
Subtitle: strategies for effective human-computer-interaction
By: Ben Shneiderman
Edition: 3rd ed.
Publisher: Addison Wesley Longman
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Reading, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 639
Subjects: Human-computer interaction; User interfaces (Computer systems)
Description: In revising this popular book, Ben Shneiderman again provides a complete, current, and authoritative introduction to user-interface design. The user interface is the part of every computer system that determines how people control and operate that system. When the interface is well designed, it is comprehensible, predictable, and controllable; users feel competent, satisfied, and responsible for their actions.

Shneiderman discusses the principles and practices needed to design such effective interaction.

Based on 20 years experience, Shneiderman offers readers practical techniques and guidelines for interface design. He also takes great care to discuss underlying issues and to support conclusions with empirical results. Interface designers, software engineers, and product managers will find this book an invaluable resource for creating systems that facilitate rapid learning and performance, yield low error rates, and generate high user satisfaction.

Coverage includes the human factors of interactive software (with a new discussion of diverse user communities), tested methods to develop and assess interfaces, interaction styles such as direct manipulation for graphical user interfaces, and design considerations such as effective messages, consistent screen design, and appropriate color.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.