Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 424 pages
- Published by: Morgan Kaufmann
- Edition: 2nd Edition September 14, 2007
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0123706432
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0123706430
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Book Dimensions:
9.6 x 7.8 x 1.2 inches
- Weighs: 1.8 pounds
Reader Reviews
This guy does not care very much about hard it is to accomplish any particular GUI design. A GUI blooper in his mind is a GUI blooper and you better do something about it if you value customer reception of your product. He often suggests solutions to difficult problems that might not be obvious to developers and that somewhat alleviate the effort involved in overcoming the blooper. He pretty much covers the entire range of GUI bloopers that developers are likely to make, and gives a plethora of examples, both from real applications and invented for the sake of illustration. The book is well organized and after reading the book from cover to cover, I now feel I'll be able to go back to the book and find fairly easily his treatment of a particular category of blooper and review his recommendations. I like the fact that he clearly explains why bloopers are bloopers and the severity that users are likely to rate each one of them. He often points out particular bloopers that may be especially hard to fix and are also especially onerous to users, but he doesn't care. As I said, for the author, a blooper is a blooper and must be dealt with. He always puts needs of the user before the difficulties of the developer and has little patience with claims that it's just too hard or expensive to get rid of a particular blooper. I guess the thing is, if you think it's too hard, you shouldn't be in this business.
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