1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910458308503321

Autore

Johnson Jeff (Consultant)

Titolo

Designing with the mind in mind : simple guide to understanding user interface design rules / / Jeff Johnson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Burlington, Massachusetts : , : Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, , 2010

©2010

ISBN

1-282-75554-4

9786612755545

0-08-096302-1

Edizione

[1st edition]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (201 p.)

Disciplina

005.4/37

Soggetti

Graphical user interfaces (Computer systems)

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Designing with the Mind in Mind: Simple Guide to Understanding User Interface Design Rules; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Introduction; 1 We Perceive What We Expect; PERCEPTION BIASED BY EXPERIENCE; PERCEPTION BIASED BY CURRENT CONTEXT; PERCEPTION BIASED BY GOALS; DESIGN IMPLICATIONS; 2 Our Vision is Optimized to See Structure; GESTALT PRINCIPLE: PROXIMITY; GESTALT PRINCIPLE: SIMILARITY; GESTALT PRINCIPLE: CONTINUITY; GESTALT PRINCIPLE: CLOSURE; GESTALT PRINCIPLE: SYMMETRY; GESTALT PRINCIPLE: FIGURE/GROUND; GESTALT PRINCIPLES: COMMON FATE

GESTALT PRINCIPLES: COMBINED3 We Seek and Use Visual Structure; STRUCTURE ENHANCES PEOPLE'S ABILITY TO SCAN LONG NUMBERS; DATA-SPECIFIC CONTROLS PROVIDE EVEN MORE STRUCTURE; VISUAL HIERARCHY LETS PEOPLE FOCUS ON THE RELEVANT INFORMATION; 4 Reading is Unnatural; WE'RE WIRED FOR LANGUAGE, BUT NOT FOR READING; IS READING FEATURE-DRIVEN OR CONTEXT-DRIVEN?; SKILLED AND UNSKILLED READING USES DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE BRAIN; POOR INFORMATION DESIGN CAN DISRUPT READING; MUCH OF THE READING REQUIRED BY SOFTWARE IS UNNECESSARY; TEST ON REAL



USERS; 5 Our Color Vision is Limited; HOW COLOR VISION WORKS

VISION IS OPTIMIZED FOR EDGE CONTRAST, NOT BRIGHTNESSABILITY TO DISCRIMINATE COLORS DEPENDS ON HOW COLORS ARE PRESENTED; COLOR-BLINDNESS; EXTERNAL FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE THE ABILITY TO DISTINGUISH COLORS; GUIDELINES FOR USING COLOR; 6 Our Peripheral Vision is Poor; RESOLUTION OF THE FOVEA COMPARED TO THAT OF THE PERIPHERY; IS THE VISUAL PERIPHERY GOOD FOR ANYTHING?; EXAMPLES FROM COMPUTER USER INTERFACES; COMMON METHODS OF MAKING MESSAGES VISIBLE; HEAVY ARTILLERY FOR MAKING USERS NOTICE MESSAGES: USE SPARINGLY; 7 Our Attention is Limited;  Our Memory is Imperfect; SHORT VS. LONG-TERM MEMORY

A MODERN VIEW OF MEMORYCHARACTERISTICS OF SHORT-TERM MEMORY; IMPLICATIONS OF SHORT-TERM MEMORY CHARACTERISTICS FOR USER INTERFACE DESIGN; CHARACTERISTICS OF LONG-TERM MEMORY; IMPLICATIONS OF LONG-TERM MEMORY CHARACTERISTICS FOR USER INTERFACE DESIGN; 8 Limits on Attention, Shape, Thought and Action; WE FOCUS ON OUR GOALS AND PAY LITTLE ATTENTION TO OUR TOOLS; WE USE EXTERNAL AIDS TO KEEP TRACK OF WHAT WE ARE DOING; WE FOLLOW INFORMATION ""SCENT"" TOWARD OUR GOAL; WE PREFER FAMILIAR PATHS; OUR THOUGHT CYCLE: GOAL, EXECUTE, EVALUATE

AFTER WE ACHIEVE A TASK'S PRIMARY GOAL, WE OFTEN FORGET CLEANUP STEPS9 Recognition are Easy;  Recall is Hard; RECOGNITION IS EASY; RECALL IS HARD; RECOGNITION VERSUS RECALL: IMPLICATIONS FOR UI DESIGN; 10 Learning from Experience and Performing Learned Actions are Easy;  Problem Solving and Calculation are Hard; WE HAVE THREE BRAINS; LEARNING FROM EXPERIENCE IS (USUALLY) EASY; PERFORMING LEARNED ACTIONS IS EASY; PROBLEM SOLVING AND CALCULATION ARE HARD; IMPLICATIONS FOR USER INTERFACE DESIGN; ANSWERS TO PUZZLES ON PAGES 124 AND 125; 11 Many Factors Affect Learning

WE LEARN FASTER WHEN OPERATION IS TASK-FOCUSED, SIMPLE, AND CONSISTENT

Sommario/riassunto

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 tenants. 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 un



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910455996003321

Autore

Elwood Christopher

Titolo

The Body broken [[electronic resource] ] : the Calvinist doctrine of the Eucharist and the symbolization of power in sixteenth-century France / / Christopher Elwood

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1999

ISBN

1-280-47066-6

0-19-535292-0

0-585-21178-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (264 p.)

Collana

Oxford studies in historical theology

Disciplina

234.163

234/.163/088242

Soggetti

Lord's Supper - Reformed Church - History - 16th century

Reformed Church - France - Doctrines - History - 16th century

Calvinism - France - History - 16th century

Power (Social sciences)

Power (Christian theology) - History of doctrines - 16th century

Reformation - France

Electronic books.

France Church history 16th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-244) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Immanent Majesty: The Eucharist and the Body of Christ in Late Medieval Society; 2 Heavenly Things in Heaven: The First Wave of French Protestant Propaganda, 1533-1535; 3 Specifying Power: Sacramental Signification in Calvin's Theology of the Eucharist; 4 Seeds of Discord: The Diffusion of the Reformed Doctrine, 1540-1560; 5 The Catholic Riposte: Defenses of the Real Presence at the Beginning of the Religious Wars; 6 The Eucharist, Reformed Social Formation, and the Ideology of Resistance; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In the public religious controversies of sixteenth-century France, no subject received more attention or provoked greater passion that the



eucharist. In this study of Reformation theologies of the eucharist, Christopher Elwood contends that the doctrine for which French Protestants argued played a pivotal role in the development of Calvinist revolutionary politics. By focusing on the new understandings of signs and symbols purveyed in Protestant writing on the sacrament of the Lords Supper, Elwood shows how adherents to the Reformation movement came to interpret the nature of power and the rel