Designing Interfaces 2

摘要

Patterns can help us be more efficient: know what look for, understand relationships, know what to do. In Designing interfaces, Jenifer Tidwell demonstrates how to make applications easy to use by designing them to be familiar. By knowing what users might expect from an application or interface, the designer can choose the appropriate idioms, controls, and patterns to produce a familiar look and feel, enabling users to apply their previous knowledge and experiences to an interface that is new and perhaps novel. Tidwell considers such idioms as forms, text editors, browsers, calendars, and spreadsheets. Among the controls she considers are auto-completion, fill-in-the-blanks, and illustrated choices. Much of the book is devoted to discussion and illustration of various patterns-solutions to common design problems, tailored to the situation at hand-to be used in design. The patterns are first defined and discussed, and each is illustrated by way of useful examples.