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| 32 | <td align="right" valign="center"><img src="logo32.png" align="right" width="64" height="32" border="0"></td></tr></table><h1 align=center>Books about GUI</h1>
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| 35 | <p> This is not a comprehensive list of books, there are many other
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| 36 | books worth buying. Here we mention just a few GUI/UI books that don't
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| 37 | gather dust in our shelves.
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| 38 | <p> <b>C++ GUI Programming with Qt 3</b> by Jasmin Blanchette and Mark
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| 39 | Summerfield, ISBN 0-13-124072-2. This is the Official Qt book written
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| 40 | by two veteran Trolls.
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| 41 | <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0131240722/trolltech/">(Read more about it or buy it.)</a>
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| 42 | <p> <b>The Design of Everyday Things</b> by Donald Norman,
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| 43 | ISBN 0-38526774-6, is one of the classics of human interface design.
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| 44 | Norman shows how badly something as simple as a kitchen stove can be
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| 45 | designed, and everyone should read it who will design a dialog box,
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| 46 | write an error message, or design just about anything else humans are
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| 47 | supposed to use.
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| 48 | <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0385267746/trolltech/t">(Read more or buy it.)</a>
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| 49 | <p> <a name="fowler"></a>
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| 50 | <b>GUI Design Handbook</b> by Susan Fowler, ISBN 0-07-059274-8, is an
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| 51 | alphabetical dictionary of widgets and other user interface elements,
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| 52 | with comprehensive coverage of each. Each chapter covers one widget
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| 53 | or other element, contains the most important recommendation from the
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| 54 | Macintosh, Windows and <a href="motif-extension.html#Motif">Motif</a> style guides, notes about common
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| 55 | problems, comparison with other widgets that can serve some of the
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| 56 | same roles as this one, etc.
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| 57 | <p> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0070592748/trolltech/t">(Read more or buy it.)</a>
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| 58 | <p> <b>Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines</b>, second edition, ISBN
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| 59 | 0-201-62216-5, is worth buying for the <em>don't</em>s alone. Even
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| 60 | though you're not writing Macintosh software, avoiding most of what it
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| 61 | advises against will produce more easily comprehensible software.
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| 62 | Doing what it tells you to <em>do</em> helps, too.
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| 63 | <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201622165/trolltech/t">(Read more or buy it.)</a>
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| 64 | <p> This book is now available
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| 65 | <a href="http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/mac/HIGuidelines/HIGuidelines-2.html">on the web</a> and there is a
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| 66 | <a href="http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/mac/HIGOS8Guide/thig-2.html">Mac
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| 67 | OS 8 addendum.</a>
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| 68 | <p> <b>The Microsoft Windows User Experience</b>, ISBN 1-55615-679-0,
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| 69 | is Microsoft's look and feel Bible. Indispensable for everyone who
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| 70 | has customers that worship Microsoft, and it's quite good, too.
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| 71 | <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0735605661/trolltech/t">(Read more or buy it.)</a>
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| 72 | <p> Microsoft's guidelines are often available on the web, but have
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| 73 | occasionally been hidden in an impenetrable maze of javascript.
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| 74 | <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnwue/html/welcome.asp">Try and see.</a>
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| 75 | <p> <b>The Icon Book</b> by William Horton, ISBN 0-471-59900-X, is a
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| 76 | perhaps the only thorough coverage of icons and icon use in software.
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| 77 | In order for icons to be successful, people must be able to do four
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| 78 | things with them: decode, recognize, find and activate them. This
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| 79 | book explains these goals from scratch and how to reach them, both
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| 80 | with single icons and icon families. Some 500 examples are scattered
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| 81 | throughout the text, generally in groups of four or five.
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| 82 | <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/047159900X/trolltech/t">(Read more or buy it.)</a>
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| 83 | <p> <h2> <nobr>Buying these books from</nobr>
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| 84 | <a href="http://www.amazon.com/text/">Amazon.com.</a>
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| 86 | <a name="1"></a><p> These books are made available in association with Amazon.com, our
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| 90 | links, Amazon.com gives about 15% of the purchase price to
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