KEY BENEFIT: Provides a broad survey of designing, implementing, managing, maintaining, training, and refining the user interface of interactive systems. KEY TOPICS: Usability of Interactive systems; Guidelines, Principles, and Theories; Managing Design Processes; Evaluating Interface Designs; Direct Manipulation and Virtual Environments; Menu Selection, Form Fills, and Dialog Boxes; Command and Natural Languages; Interaction Devices; Collaboration; Quality of Service; Balancing Function and Fashion; User Documentation and Online Help; Information Search; Information Visualization; Societal and Individual Impact of User Interfaces. MARKET: An ideal reference for HCI professionals.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0
Good book:
Book is very well written, and covers all the topics necessary and with the necessary detail to grasp the concepts related to human interface design. Highly recommend this book to anyone!!
The seminal HCI book:
No other book in the field of HCI (Human-Computer Interaction) is as broad, has so many useful guidelines and is a better bibliography as Shneiderman DTUI (Designing the User Interface). DTUI will *not* give you in-depth knowledge of every aspect of HCI, because that's an impossible task for a single book.
Instead, DTUI focuses on giving you an overview and understanding of central HCI concepts coupled with useful everyday tips, rules and guidelines. The passionate HCI student will in DTUI... more info
Verbosity at its finest:
This book looks more like a collection of references than a real text book. The author inserts references to other works and papers in such a random and repetitive fashion that makes reading the book a real pain in the ass. And then there is the verbosity. Apparently, Mr Shneiderman likes to list items and give examples. And he likes it a lot. If you make the terrible mistake of reading this book you will navigate through never-ending paragraphs that make circles and circles around the same idea,... more info
An excellent revision:
As most reviewers have noted, this is a classic and must-have book in the field of HCI. This fourth edition--newly published in March 2004--has been thoroughly revised to include much material related to the WWW. It does appear that Shneiderman took care to go through each chapter and remove less relevant material in favor of including new topics that have come up since the last edition was written.
