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Principles and Guidelines in Software User Interface Design

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Good book. List coherently the do's and don'ts of interface design. The kind of stuff you think you know but don't practice. Actually give reasons why you should do it 'her' way but undeniably well-founded. I have used it for teaching HCI for several years now though not as a text book. One fault is that the lists of guidelines are endless. This is always the way with guidelines since they are so easy to give but difficult to follow or to interpret how one should implement the guideline. Still, I commend her section on mental models and screen layout. In particular the latter topic is still relevant despite the progress since publication.

There are many information about software user interface.
For example, in Introduction the items are as follows,
user compatibility
product compatibility
task compatibility
work flow compatibility
consistency
familiarity
simplicity
direct manipulation
control
WYSIWYG = what you see is what you get
flexibility
responsiveness
invisible technology
robustness
protection
ease of learning and ease of use
and their trade offs