Developing User Interfaces for Microsoft Windows

Developing User Interfaces for Microsoft Windows

Author: Everett N. McKay

Publisher:

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 656

ISBN-13:

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Provides straightforward and effective methods you can apply right now to create more usable- user-driven-software. Softcover. CD-ROM included. DLC: User interfaces (Computer systems)


User Interface Design for Programmers

User Interface Design for Programmers

Author: Avram Joel Spolsky

Publisher: Apress

Published: 2008-01-01

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13: 1430208570

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Most programmers' fear of user interface (UI) programming comes from their fear of doing UI design. They think that UI design is like graphic design—the mysterious process by which creative, latte-drinking, all-black-wearing people produce cool-looking, artistic pieces. Most programmers see themselves as analytic, logical thinkers instead—strong at reasoning, weak on artistic judgment, and incapable of doing UI design. In this brilliantly readable book, author Joel Spolsky proposes simple, logical rules that can be applied without any artistic talent to improve any user interface, from traditional GUI applications to websites to consumer electronics. Spolsky's primary axiom, the importance of bringing the program model in line with the user model, is both rational and simple. In a fun and entertaining way, Spolky makes user interface design easy for programmers to grasp. After reading User Interface Design for Programmers, you'll know how to design interfaces with the user in mind. You'll learn the important principles that underlie all good UI design, and you'll learn how to perform usability testing that works.


The Windows Interface Guidelines for Software Design

The Windows Interface Guidelines for Software Design

Author: Microsoft Press

Publisher:

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 590

ISBN-13:

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This well-organized and clearly written book provides guidelines for designing visually and functionally consistent user interfaces for Windows programs. It is the official book on Microsoft user-interface design and can be read as a program specification for Windows application developers who want to save training time, boost productivity, and promote user confidence in their applications.


Visual Interface Design for Windows

Visual Interface Design for Windows

Author: Virginia Howlett

Publisher:

Published: 1996-04-19

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13:

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Looking for insight on designing Windows user interfaces? Need help improving the visual impact of your Windows 95 application? This definitive resource presents both the graphics design principles and hands-on software development techniques users need to create visually functional and attractive Windows applications. Features an attractive color design with hundreds of illustrations.


The Essential Guide to User Interface Design

The Essential Guide to User Interface Design

Author: Wilbert O. Galitz

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2007-04-10

Total Pages: 888

ISBN-13: 0470146222

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Bringing together the results of more than 300 new design studies, an understanding of people, knowledge of hardware and software capabilities, and the author’s practical experience gained from 45 years of work with display-based systems, this book addresses interface and screen design from the user’s perspective. You will learn how to create an effective design methodology, design and organize screens and Web pages that encourage efficient comprehension and execution, and create screen icons and graphics that make displays easier and more comfortable to use.


The Windows Interface

The Windows Interface

Author: Microsoft Corporation

Publisher:

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13:

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The official guidelines and standards for designing a Windows 3 user interface. This book discusses the principles of design that are fundamental to creating a well-designed, visually and functionally consistent user interface. An essential reference for all Windows programmers.


User Interfaces in C#

User Interfaces in C#

Author: Matthew MacDonald

Publisher: Apress

Published: 2008-01-01

Total Pages: 614

ISBN-13: 1430208376

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MacDonald goes beyond most other .NET books and shows how to design state-of-the-art application interfaces, concentrating on the C# language.


Front-end Design and Development for Systems Applications

Front-end Design and Development for Systems Applications

Author: Andreas Sofroniou

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2009-12-21

Total Pages: 87

ISBN-13: 1409275884

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A guide to designing and developing the ‘front-end’ for systems applications, including the standards and guidelines for the Graphical User Interface (GUI) and the Human Computer Interface (HCI), through which users communicate with the computer system and the database. Also, dialogue styles in which a user is provided with a hierarchically organised set of choices pointing to and interacting with visible elements.


The Craft of Windows 95TM Interface Design

The Craft of Windows 95TM Interface Design

Author: Alex Calvo

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 1461240603

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Good software interface design is as crucial to a product's success as is its functionality. With the availability of visual development tools such as Visual Basic and Visual C++, more and more developers of applications will need to understand and use principles of good interface design. This book will help guide the reader to a better understanding of how to make Windows software simple to navigate and a pleasure to use. The author concentrates on the development of user-interfaces for Windows 95 and NT software and introduces some important design techniques such as prototyping, UI bulking, Rapid Layout Comparison, and the Side-by-Side Design Approach. Readers are assumed to have a working knowledge of development tools such as Visual C++ and to be working with the Microsoft Guidelines for Interface Design.