The essential guide to user interface design: an introduction to GUI design principles and techniques

✍ Scribed by Wilbert O. Galitz

• Publisher: Wiley Computer Pub
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 736
• Edition: 2nd ed
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

User Interface Design is a very complicated subject. This colossal book mimics closely a telephone book with a large amount of text-heaviness. If you get over the fact that there are a wall of words on most pages, the book actually has some great content and ideas. It generally talks about user interfaces, as opposed to web interface/design. It talks more about the distinction between them and what their purposes are. It talks about different controls and the best solution for a problem that a client has. You find out a lot of things that are like, "Wow, I never thought about that, but that makes so much sense".

I am mostly a web designer, but knowing the purpose of GUIs is a great skill since there is going to be a boom in RIAs(Rich Internet Applications) in the coming years. It probably could have been condensed quite a bit, but there is a lot more good than bad, so I give it four stars.