Designing Interfaces: Patterns for Effective Interaction Design
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UI designers over the years have refined the art of interface design, evolving many best practices and reusable ideas. "Designing Interfaces" captures those best practices as design patterns—solutions to common design problems, tailored to the situation at hand. Each pattern contains practical advice that can be put to use immediately. Full color.
PrefaceChapter 1: What Users DoChapter 2: Organizing the Content:Information Architecture and Application StructureChapter 3: Getting Around:Navigation, Signposts, and WayfindingChapter 4: Organizing the Page:Layout of Page ElementsChapter 5: Doing Things:Actions and CommandsChapter 6: Showing Complex Data:Trees, Tables, and Other Information GraphicsChapter 7: Getting Input from Users:Forms and ControlsChapter 8: Builders and EditorsChapter 9: Making It Look Good:Visual Style and AestheticsColophonFor more than a decade, Jenifer Tidwell has been designing and building user interfaces for a variety of industry verticals, often in the Java programming language. She has experience in designing both desktop and Web applications. As a user interface designer at The MathWorks, Jenifer was instrumental in a redesign of the charting and visualization UI of MATLAB, which is used by researchers, students, and engineers worldwide to develop cars, planes, proteins, and theories about the universe.
