Full name: The Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems

Author: Jef Raskin Year: 2000 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Design, Non Fiction, Psychology Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780201379372 0201379376

Deep thinking is rare in this field where most companies are glad to copy designs that were great back in the 1970s. The Humane Interface is a gourmet dish from a master chef. Five mice! --Jakob Nielsen, Nielsen Norman Group Author of Designing Web Usability: The Practice of Simplicity This unique guide to interactive system design reflects the experience and vision of Jef Raskin, the creator of the Apple Macintosh. Other books may show how to use todays widgets and interface ideas effectively. Raskin, however, demonstrates that many current interface paradigms are dead ends, and that to make computers significantly easier to use requires new approaches. He explains how to effect desperately needed changes, offering a wealth of innovative and specific interface ideas for software designers, developers, and product managers. The Apple Macintosh helped to introduce a previous revolution in computer interface design, drawing on the best available technology to establish many of the interface techniques and methods now universal in the computer industry. With this book, Raskin proves again both his farsightedness and his practicality. He also demonstrates how design ideas must be bui Similar books: The Invisible Computer by Donald A. Norman The Essential Guide to User Interface Design by Wilbert O. Galitz The Art of Human-Computer Interface Design by Brenda Laurel Designing Interfaces by Jenifer Tidwell The Design of Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman Designing for Behavior Change by Stephen Wendel Interviewing Users by Steve Portigal Mental Models by Indi Young Designing with Web Standards by Jeffrey Zeldman Web Form Design by Luke Wroblewski Information Architecture by Christina Wodtke Communicating Design by Dan Brown Tapworthy by Josh Clark Prioritizing Web Usability by Jakob Nielsen Designing for the Social Web by Joshua Porter CAD Monkeys, Dinosaur Babies, and T-Shaped People by Warren Berger The Elements of Graphing Data by William S. Cleveland Shaping Things by Bruce Sterling Observing the User Experience by Mike Kuniavsky Where the Action Is by Paul Dourish