Cooper, Alan,  1952- <br/><br/>
About face :  the essentials of user interface design / 
Alan Cooper. 
 - Foster City, Calif. :  [London?] :  IDG Books Worldwide,  [distributed by Transworld]  1995 
 - xx, 580 p. ;  24 cm. +  pbk. 
<br/><br/> "Covers Windows 95" - cover.<br/>Includes index. 
<br/><br/>Introduction -- Part I: The Goal -- Goal-Directed Design -- Software Design -- The Three Models -- Visual Interface Design -- Part II: The Form -- Idioms and Affordances -- An Irreverent History of Rectangles on the Screen --  Windows-with-a-Small-w -- Lord of the Files -- Storage and Retrieval Systems -- Choosing Platforms -- Part III: The Behavior -- Orchestration and Flow -- Posture and State -- Overhead and Idiocy -- The Secret Weapon of Interface Design -- Part IV: The Interaction -- Elephants, Mice and Minnies -- Selection -- Direct Manipulation -- Drag-and-Drop -- Part V: The Cast -- The meaning of menus -- Menus -- Dialog Boxes -- Dialog Box Etiquette -- Toolbars -- Roll the Credits, Please -- Part VI: The Gizmos -- Imperative and Selection Gizmos -- Entry and Display Gizmos -- New Gizmos -- Part VII: The Guardian -- The end of errors -- Managing Exceptions -- Undo -- Part VIIII: The Teacher -- Good at what you do -- Installation, Configuration and Personalization -- Shouldering the Burden -- Where do we go from here? 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>1568843224  
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>95075055 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>User interfaces (Computer systems)<br/>Human-computer interaction
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>005.42