Guidelines for Enterprise–Wide GUI Design - Softcover

Weinschenk, Susan; Yeo, Sarah C.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0471118451 ISBN 13: 9780471118459

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 1995

Synopsis

Software Development/User–Interface Design

A complete, ready–to–use procedures manual for developing company–wide GUIs

Coming up with a set of company–wide GUI standards can be one of the most frustrating and time–consuming processes a development team faces. Now this powerful book takes the pain out of GUI design by supplying you with everything you need to develop and implement your own standards quickly and inexpensively with buy–in from users throughout your organization.

Complete guidelines on everything from screen layouts, menus, and push button size, name, and placement, to bitmaps and toolbars, color and highlighting, icon design, and much more

• Helps to dramatically reduce development time and cost, and to guarantee consistent new applications throughout your entire organization
• Covers GUI design for a variety of platforms, including Windows, OS/2, and UNIX
• Over 100 screen shots make it easy to see what works, what doesn′t, and why

About this title

About the Author

SUSAN WEINSCHENK, Ph.D., is Principal of Weinschenk Training and Consulting, which specializes in graphical–user interface design. She has over 15 years experience consulting and teaching with Fortune 1000 companies in the application of usability techniques to improve computer software. Dr. Weinschenk is a speaker at international conferences and was chosen as one of the Top 100 Women in Computing by Open Computing.

SARAH C. YEO is the Manager of Technical Documentation for Computer People Unlimited/Compuware Corporation, a consulting firm. Prior to starting the technical documentation department at her current company, she owned her own technical communications consulting firm. She manages technical documentation analysts on multiple projects and consults on documentation project management and on converting documents from paper media to online. Sally has written a book on project management for technical writers. She is a regular presenter at professional conferences and meetings and serves on the professional advisory boards for the technical documentation programs at two colleges.

A complete, ready–to–use procedures manual for developing company–wide GUIs

Coming up with a set of company–wide GUI standards can be one of the most frustrating and time–consuming processes a development team faces. Now this powerful book takes the pain out of GUI design by supplying you with everything you need to develop and implement your own standards quickly and inexpensively with buy–in from users throughout your organization.

Complete guidelines on everything from screen layouts, menus, and push button size, name, and placement, to bitmaps and toolbars, color and highlighting, icon design, and much more

• Helps to dramatically reduce development time and cost, and to guarantee consistent new applications throughout your entire organization
• Covers GUI design for a variety of platforms, including Windows, OS/2, and UNIX
• Over 100 screen shots make it easy to see what works, what doesn′t, and why

Edition details

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0471118451
• ISBN 13: 9780471118459
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 222