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by Kevin Mullet (Author), Darrell Sano (Author)
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  • Paperback: 304 pages
  • Publisher: Prentice Hall (17 Jan 1995)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0133033899
  • ISBN-13: 978-0133033892
  • Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 19 x 1.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
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For anyone responsible for designing, specifying, implementing, documenting, or managing the visual appearance of computer-based information displays.

Ironically, many designers of graphical user interfaces are not always aware of the fundamental techniques that are applied to communication-oriented visual design — techniques that can be used to enhance the visual quality of GUIs, data displays, and multimedia documents. This book describes some of the most important design rules and techniques that are drawn from the rational, functionalist design aesthetic seen in modern graphic design, industrial design, interior design, and architecture — and applies them to various graphical user interface problems experienced in commercial software development.

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars One of the top five books in GUI design, 28 Oct 1998
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This is a great book if you know how to use it. Its not for people looking for cookbook approaches. Rather, it provides well argued information about the underlying principles of visual design. The authors ilustrate their points about grids, layout, typography, and color by showing examples of top notch efforts by some of the best information designers in the world.

Classic examples like the London subway maps and the National Park Service brochures are illustrated, along with excellent explanations of the design principles that make these particular design so successful.

The aurthors then go on to show how these examples can be applied to GUI design. And they are very gutsy as they show actual examples from actual software products that are "design failures". In fairness, they also show examples of well designed software, with explanations of why the design works so well.

This book is for a person who's willing to invest some time to learn about things like information hierarchies and information design. Like playing a piano, this isn't something one can master over night, but also like playing a piano, it has its own vast rewards.

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4.0 out of 5 stars An excellent guide to practical issues in gui design, 14 May 1997
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*Designing Visual Interfaces* deserves a wider audience. Its promotion of visual literacy for GUI designers is a worthwhile cause. Every GUI designer, which includes most programmers these days, should read this book!

*Designing Visual Interfaces* is a "nuts and bolts" design book with lots of examples of bad and good interface design in present-day Graphical User Interfaces. The authors attempt grand analogies with media that offer richer opportunities for design--posters, timetables, appliances. Sometimes it seems that returning to the same old dialogue boxes is a bit of a come-down in the design world, the need to shove a lot of info into a few pixels. Nonetheless, the book has lots of good advice. Perhaps the reason it hasn't found wider readership is that its own printing format, using small black and white images, doesn't do justice to the careful thought they've put into their selection.

The authors both worked on the Open Look standard, which is not my favorite GUI. But fortunately their book is not a brief for that standard. And they do have some good criticism of Microsoft Windows--well merited!

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5.0 out of 5 stars A "must have" book for serious UI Designers, 16 Jan 1999
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There are very few good books on UI Design. This one definitely rates in the top 5. The authors make a very good observation - now that we have high resolution displays and high definition colour, the rules of UI Design have changed since the 1980s. UI Design is now much more like pure graphic design. This book walks the reader through the basic principles of pure graphic design and is copiously illustrated with examples. It then takes the principles being explained and applies them to UI problems. The examples pre-date Java but this is still a valuable book and all of its lessons should be liberally applied to the design of modern software and websites
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