Display and Interface Design

Subtle Science, Exact Art

Kevin B. Bennett, John M. Flach

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2011
• Print ISBN: 9780367864682
• eBook ISBN: 9781040070338
• Topic: Computer Science
• Subtopic: Industrial Engineering
• Index: Computer Science

The reason that good interfaces are few and far between is really quite simple: they are extremely difficult to design and build properly. While there are many books available that address display design, most of them focus on aesthetic principles but lack scientific rigor, or are descriptive but not prescriptive. This book elucidates an overarching framework for design that can be applied to the broad spectrum of existing domains. The authors delineate analytical tools and principles of design that are general and powerful, but very abstract, accompanied by concrete examples of their use in a variety of domains of application. The book includes access to a web site containing examples of the dynamic properties of displays.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• The Authors
• 1 Introduction to Subtle Science, Exact Art
• 2 A Meaning Processing Approach
• 3 The Dynamics of Situations
• 4 The Dynamics of Awareness
• 5 The Dynamics of Situation Awareness
• 6 A Framework for Ecological Interface Design (EID)
• 7 Display Design: Building a Conceptual Base
• 8 Visual Attention and Form Perception
• 9 Semantic Mapping versus Proximity Compatibility
• 10 Design Tutorial: Configural Graphics for Process Control
• 11 Design Tutorial: Flying within the Field of Safe Travel
• 12 Metaphor: Leveraging Experience
• 13 Design Tutorial: Mobile Phones and PDAs
• 14 Design Tutorial: Command and Control
• 15 Design Principles: Visual Momentum
• 16 Measurement
• 17 Interface Evaluation
• 18 A New Way of Seeing?
• Index