The GUI Style Guide

Download or read book The GUI Style Guide written by Susan L. Fowler and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The GUI Style Guide provides the tools necessary for programmers to write interfaces for a variety of windowing environments. All of the guidelines are useful to programmers either creating IBM mainframe applications or writing Windows applications. It also explains how to take advantage of object-oriented programming and fourth-generation languages. * * Contains all of the information for designing an effective GUI, such as human factors, color, menu levels, and prototyping * Explains how to create an interface that makes sense to others * Demonstrates similarities between various manufacturers' underlying windowing environments * Covers examples from all sorts of software on as many hardware platforms as possible * Provdies programmers with the necessary tools to write interfaces for a variety of windowing environments. * Includes all of the guidelines necessary for programmers to create any type of windowed application, from IBM CUA mainframe to pen to Macintosh, Motif, NeXt, and Windows systems.