Essential reading for Designers.

Are you baffled by computer jargon? Do you find `Help' facilities meaningless because you don't use the right words? Are you confused by the metaphors used on an interface? If yes, then this book will certainly help you with your design problems. The reader is guided through the maze of interface design by consideration of language. Whether English is your first language, or if you are a non-native speaker hampered by communication difficulties, the hostile vocabulary of computer-screen terminology will be clarified by enhanced meanings and understanding. If every designer of user interfaces read this book, the world would be a better place purely as a result of thinking about other people's awareness and perceptions. People strive to be `computer literate' - but are computers `people literate'? The author here strives to ensure that in the future this will be so. The text uses plenty of examples from differing interfaces as well as giving an historical perspective; thus the reader can see that whilst progress has been made, there is still some way to go in establishing universal user-friendly interfaces. Essential reading which supplies much food for thought concerning interface design.

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