The GUI Style Guide [Paperback]

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Book Description

Publication Date: November 3, 1994

The GUI Style Guide provides the tools necessary for programmers to write interfaces for a variety of windowing environments. All of the guidelines are useful to programmers either creating IBM mainframe applications or writing Windows applications. It also explains how to take advantage of object-oriented programming and fourth-generation languages.

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* Contains all of the information for designing an effective GUI, such as human factors, color, menu levels, and prototyping
* Explains how to create an interface that makes sense to others
* Demonstrates similarities between various manufacturers' underlying windowing environments
* Covers examples from all sorts of software on as many hardware platforms as possible
* Provdies programmers with the necessary tools to write interfaces for a variety of windowing environments.
* Includes all of the guidelines necessary for programmers to create any type of windowed application, from IBM CUA mainframe to pen to Macintosh, Motif, NeXt, and Windows systems.

Product Details

• Paperback: 407 pages
• Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann (November 3, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0122635906
• ISBN-13: 978-0122635908
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.4 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,418,479 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars Good for Then, Average for Now, April 28, 2000

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This review is from: The GUI Style Guide (Paperback)

[The publication date of] 1994 is a long ways off computerwise. There are still a lot of really good general concepts andWindows specific information, but you can tell some things a bit more 'today-ish' haven't been addressed.

There were a lot of things, like how to write error messages, which I always found fairly valuable. But there's nothing about web.

It's too bad, because I think it's a well done book...