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Interface design when you don't know how

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Communications of the ACM archive
Volume 35 , Issue 1 (January 1992) table of contents

Pages: 29 - 34

Year of Publication: 1992

ISSN:0001-0782

Author

Marc Rettig

Summer Institute of Linguistics, Dallas, TX; Database Programming and Design; and AI-Expert

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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	1	John D. Gould , Stephen J. Boies , Clayton Lewis, Making usable, useful, productivity-enhancing computer applications, Communications of the ACM, v.34 n.1, p.74-85, Jan. 1991 [doi>10.1145/99977.99993]
	2	Brenda Laurel, Computers as theatre, Addison-Wesley Longman Publishing Co., Inc., Boston, MA, 1991
	3	Aaron Marcus, Graphic design for electronic documents and user interfaces, ACM Press, New York, NY, 1991
	4	Robert M. Mulligan , Mark W. Altom , David K. Simkin, User interface design in the trenches: some tips on shooting from the hip, Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems: Reaching through technology, p.232-236, April 27-May 02, 1991, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States [doi>10.1145/108844.108898]
	5	Ben Shneiderman, Designing the user interface (videotape), University of Maryland at College Park, College Park, MD, 1987
	6	Interactive Color. Holiday Horton. San Diego Supercompuer center, 1991
	7	Paul Heckel, The Elements of Friendly Software Design, SYBEX Inc., Alameda, CA, 1991

CITED BY 3

	Susan E. Metros, The graphic designer's role, interactions, v.1 n.3, p.28-40, July 1994
	Martin L. Barrett, A hypertext module for teaching user interface design, ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, v.25 n.1, p.107-111, March 1993
	Rob Kling , Margaret Elliott, Digital library design for organizational usability, ACM SIGOIS Bulletin, v.15 n.2, p.59-70, Dec. 1994

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
H. Information Systems
H.5 INFORMATION INTERFACES AND PRESENTATION (I.7)

Additional Classification:
H. Information Systems
H.1 MODELS AND PRINCIPLES

General Terms:
Design, Human Factors

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Rettig describes the problems of the construction of a modern human-computer interface by designers who lack experience in this field. His idea is that the designer must know the process of building an interface. He observes that journal paper more...

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