Practical User Interface Design By Carl Zetie Bookreview by LarryWood Some time ago, I queried several e-lists in an attempt to find a book that discusses how to go from analysis to design in developing an application interface. I received the following reply from Carl Zetie, at Oracle UK: "My own forthcoming book, 'Practical User Interface Design', is due to be published by McGraw Hill in a couple of months (currently going through production). It is very detailed, and focuses on the whole lifecycle from conceptual model through taskflow, dialog design, and detailed design (i.e., the widget level). It is also emphatically principle-based, drawing heavily on the ideas of Donald Norman in POET. If you imagine chapter 5 in Hix and Harston expanded to book length and heavily illustrated from real applications, that will give some flavor of it." In fact, Carl's book comes very close to what I had in mind. As the title implies and to quote from the preface, the book "is an attempt to explain the fundamentals of the discipline [interface design] in a way that is relevant to commercial computing." The book is intended primarily for practitioners and covers Fundamental Principles (Ch. l),
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