The Art of Human-Computer Interface Design

By: Laurel, Brenda

A compendium of original articles and essays from leading thinkers in the computer industry, including Alan Kay, Nicholas Negroponte, and Don Norman, surveys the range of issues relating to interface... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0201517973
• ISBN13: 9780201517972
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
• Length: 544 Pages
• Weight: 2.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 8.0" x 9.9"

Customer Reviews

"Good task analysis means continual user testing,"

"Good task analysis means continual user testing, starting as soon as the work begins." pp9. This book contain good design concept on human-computer interface. Some of them are implemented to Macintosh. The web including html is good technology, but some design are not good for user. Please back to this book, you may get the good design concept about the web.

The magna carta of Interface design books

Of course this book dosen't metion the web. It was written back when the WWW was not even a twinkle in Netscape's eye. Forget the black and white preaching of Jakob Nielson this is the true holy book of digital interface designers. I've been in interviews where they ask about this book.

An oldie but a goodie

This tome is older - there's no getting around that. However, we don't throw out calculus because it is old. This book contains the principals of interface design, and they still apply. (I didn't like the binding, my copy having fallen apart after about 5 or 6 years of use). It is always a refreshing and lively read - even after the eleventeenth read!

An inspiring and comprehensive book on new media. Essential.

Almost every aspect of human-computer interface design is covered in this book. Here you'll not find step-by-step procedures, but instead a wide range of opinions, experiences and conclusions on what really works (and what doesn't) on interfaces. The new media researcher, as well as the professional, will find this book useful and inspiring. And don't be scared by this book's size! It is as interactive as its subject, so you can read it non-sequentially in small chapters.

An important foundation book in interface design, but dated.

Folks new to modern user interface design principles will get the most out of this book. It gives a good insight into the types of thinking that go into excellent user interface designs. More experienced folks may find this book falling behind the state of the art, but interesting from a historical perspective.