smashingmagazine.com — A review of books about usability and interaction design. Some provide the theory of user interface design, others have a number of precise examples of how the theory can be used in practice. All these books are prestigious, well-known and recommended by experts.
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socalrobJan 25, 2008
I just bought a book about Icon design for Gui's and other interfaces. I found it funny how many typo's and obvious lack of research the author(s) and editor did. Ex: The crop tool found in photoshop and gimp. The author states its 2 L brackets that don't represent anything but are universally accepted as the crop icon. Yet if he did a small bit of research, it actually represents the tool used to crop photos for magazines and other publications. Heck I used one in my H.S. yearbook class.Getting around that nonsense though, the book is rather interesting and makes a great companion to my other tech and design books. Bargain bin FTW!
yetanothercrocJan 25, 2008
Hey we all know research is boring, besides wouldnt you rather try to inject your own unfounded but "way better" theories into the public mind