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GUI

Graphical User Interface. The windowing scheme such as X-Windows, Windows-95 or Mac OS that user interacts with using a mouse, keyboard and screen. David Anderson maintains a site on user interface design. Here are some books to help you create good GUI designs:

Designing Visual Interfaces : Communication Oriented Techniques

0-13-303389-9

Kevin Mullet, Darrell Sano (Contributor)

This is not a cookbook, but a book on basic principles focusing on elegance and simplicity; scale, contrast, and proportion; organization and visual structure; module and program; image and representation; and style. I find it ironic that their book cover looks so bad in miniature.

About Face: The Essentials of User Interface Design

1-56884-322-4

Alan Cooper

The Design of Everyday Things

0-385-26774-6

Donald A. Norman

Though this is not particularly about designing GUIs, I love this book. It was like meeting somebody else who understood my frustration with the ineptness in the design of user interfaces for computer programs, household appliances and just about anything mechanical. He grabbed ill-formed ideas out of my mind and laid them clearly on paper. A classic.

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