............... .. Book Review Designing Visual Interfaces by KevinMullet and Darrell Sano Book review by RaghuKolli The expertise of graphic designers is n o t very well understood in the software community. Only a small fraction of the commercial software development community (mostly the big players) hire the services of graphic designers and/or human interface designers. Though developments like World Wide Web has spawned offa sudden demand for graphic design services, the bulk of Web pages or graphical user interfaces for that matter, are in reality designed by the technical team members. Graphic design is often viewed as an 'artistic' profession that provides a quick face-lift to make software look 'user-friendly'. Generally speaking, the software engineering community seldom appreciated n o r acknowledged the fact that certain sound visual principles govern the graphic design of user interfaces. In this context, a much required book titled 'Designing Visual Interfaces' by Kevin Mullet and Darrell Sano describes 'a number of important design rules and techniques internalised by every visual designer through coursework and studio experience'. Drawing heavily from the traditional print media, the authors identify and apply several visual communication principles to graphical user interfaces of computer software. While the
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