Rating: Summary: Great Interface Design Reference! Review: This is an excellent reference on interface design and usability testing. Mandel's key ideas and "Golden Rules" should be required reading for all developers and web designers.The book is enjoyable reading and increases awareness of interface design issues and practical applications.
Rating: Summary: Great Interface Design Reference! Review: This is an excellent reference on interface design and usability testing. Mandel's key ideas and "Golden Rules" should be required reading for all developers and web designers. The book is enjoyable reading and increases awareness of interface design issues and practical applications.
Rating: Summary: Certainly not the best of the breed. Review: This text pales in comparison to another I have read devoted to UI design. Everything here seemed like a repeat of what I have read before. Worse yet, it was delivered with less interesting, and less easily digested, prose. I found the content generally shallow and the examples lacking. I suggest that you consider "About Face" by Alan Cooper instead. There is a book that rates a 10.
Rating: Summary: Other UI Design Books are better Review: While this book does offer a number of good and practical UI design tips, it simply isn't as compelling as other books on the subject. I would recommend Alan Cooper's "About Face" over this book. On the bright side, this book's "Key Idea!" sections do make it easy to scan through for the concepts you're interested in, thus avoiding the often difficult to read main text.
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