Book Review: GUI Bloopers! Don'ts and Dos

I first came across this book while viewing Jeff Johnson's presentation on Stanford Online. If I can have just one book on HCI and UI design, without any hesitation, this would be it.

GUI Bloopers! Don'ts and Dos by Jeff Johnson, is as the title says a book of guidelines for Interface Designers and Programmers. If you've been working on developing UIs for application, you'll appreciate the loads of wonderful information that is contained in this book. The tips, or bloopers, have been divided into the following:

• GUI Component Bloopers


• Layout and Appearance Bloopers


• Textual Bloopers


• Interaction Bloopers


• Web Bloopers


• Responsiveness Bloopers


• and Management Bloopers

The only complaint I have is that the web section does not explore web application related bloopers. But since a lot of application UI related issues are covered in the rest of the topics, this is sort of made up for. I've recommended this book to all the designers who have worked with me, and have no hesitation in recommending it to you. Go, check it out on Amazon...

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