Designing with the Mind in Mind Simple Guide to Understanding User Interface Design Rules

• Main Author: Johnson, Jeff consultant (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts Morgan Kaufmann Publishers 2021
• Edition: Third edition
• Subjects: Graphical user interfaces (Computer systems)
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• Physical Description: xiv, 290 pages colour illustrations 24 cm
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 9780128182024

User interface (UI) design rules and guidelines, developed by early HCI gurus and recognized throughout the field, were based on cognitive psychology (study of mental processes such as problem solving, memory, and language), and early practitioners were well informed of its tenets. But today practitioners with backgrounds in cognitive psychology are a minority, as user interface designers and developers enter the field from a wide array of disciplines. HCI practitioners today have enough experience in UI design that they have been exposed to UI design rules, but it is essential that they understand the psychological basis behind the rules in order to effectively apply them. In Designing with the Mind in Mind, best-selling author Jeff Johnson provides designers with just enough background in perceptual and cognitive psychology that UI design guidelines make intuitive sense rather than being just a list of rules to follow.