Coordinating user interfaces for consistency /

In the years since Jakob Nielsen's classic collection on interface consistency first appeared, much has changed, and much has stayed the same. On the one hand, there's been exponential growth in the opportunities for following or disregarding the principles of interface consistency-more co...

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Corporate Authors: Elsevier Science & Technology
Group Author: Nielsen, Jakob, 1957; Bennett, William
Published: Morgan Kaufmann,
Publisher Address: San Francisco :
Publication Dates: 2002.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Series: The Morgan Kaufmann series in interactive technologies
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Online Access: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780080503158
Summary: In the years since Jakob Nielsen's classic collection on interface consistency first appeared, much has changed, and much has stayed the same. On the one hand, there's been exponential growth in the opportunities for following or disregarding the principles of interface consistency-more computers, more applications, more users, and of course the vast expanse of the Web. On the other, there are the principles themselves, as persistent and as valuable as ever.
Item Description: Title from title screen.
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (x, 142 pages) : illustrations.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9780080503158
0080503152
Index Number: QA76
CLC: TP334
Contents: Executive summary --
coordinating user interfaces for consistency /
The dimensions of consistency /
A cost benefit analysis for corporate user interface standards : what price to pay for a consistent "look and feel"? /
Coordinating consistency of user interfaces, code, online help, and documentation with multilingual-multitarget software specification /
Achieving consistency for the Macintosh /
Developing the XUI style /
Consistency as process /
New ways