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The Art of Human-Computer Interface Design
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Author: Brenda Laurel
List Price: $44.99
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ISBN: 0201517973
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co (01 January, 1990)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 37,483
Average Customer Rating: 3.57 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 5 out of 5
The magna carta of Interface design books
Of course this book dosen't metion the web. It was written back when the WWW was not even a twinkle in Netscape's eye. Forget the black and white preaching of Jakob Nielson this is the true holy book of digital interface designers. I've been in interviews where they ask about this book.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Dated, but still very valuable
It's time for this book to be re-collected and updated, I think. Parts of it (particularly the essays grouped under 'Creativity and Design' and 'Users and Contexts') are very useful for today's interface design world. However there are sections (particularly the section on 'New Directions') where it feels *very* dated and really suffers from being written before Internet time. An extremely impressive group of writers participates. Including: Howard Rheingold, Don Norman, Bruce Tognazzini, Nicholas Negroponte, Alan Kay, Timothy Leary and Gitta Salomon. It's definitely worth a read, but don't be afraid (unless you're a Macintosh history buff) to skip large sections.
Rating: 4 out of 5
An oldie but a goodie
This tome is older - there's no getting around that. However, we don't throw out calculus because it is old. This book contains the principals of interface design, and they still apply. (I didn't like the binding, my copy having fallen apart after about 5 or 6 years of use). It is always a refreshing and lively read - even after the eleventeenth read!
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