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Communications of the ACM archive
Volume 39 , Issue 8 (August 1996) table of contents

Pages: 70 - 82

Year of Publication: 1996

ISSN:0001-0782

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Don Gentner	Sun Microsystems, Mountain View, CA
Jakob Nielsen	Sun Microsystems, Mountain View, CA

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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INDEX TERMS

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

Additional Classification:
D. Software
D.2 SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
D.2.2 Design Tools and Techniques
Subjects: User interfaces

General Terms:
Design, Human Factors, Performance

REVIEW

"Dario A. Giuse : Reviewer"

The authors use the design principles that underlie most window-based graphical user interface systems (exemplified by the original Macintosh window system) to analyze what would happen if those design principles were violated. The authors mak more...

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