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Index

G

gallery feature, 221

Gates, Bill (Microsoft founder), 321, 324

goal. See also Goal-Directed Design

context, meeting in, 13

corporate goal, 65-66

customer goal, 65

end goal, 65, 70

engineer designer, of, 5-6, 8

experience goal, 64-65

feature inclusion, judging in relation to, 19-20

file system irrelevancy to, 168

inferring from qualitative data, 63

life goal, 64, 70

marketing, of, 5-6, 8, 14

motivator, as, 12, 62-63

persona, modeling using, 17, 56-57, 61, 63, 70

recognizing, 11-13

scenario, goal-directed, 76, 77, 78-79

success, meeting goal as measure of, 19-20, 66-67

synthesizing, 70

task versus, 12-13

technical goal, 65

user goal, determining, 11-13, 45, 49, 50, 51

user goal, recognizing, 11-12

user goals, categories of, 64-65

Goal-Directed Design. See also goal

brainstorming, 79

Framework Definition phase, 16, 19

mental model, reflection of, 25

Modeling phase, 16, 17

problem statement, 78-79

questions addressed by, 20

Refinement phase, 16, 19

Requirements Definition phase, 16, 17, 19, 78-83

vision statement, 78-79

Golden Section ratio, 232-233

Goodwin, Kim

context scenario, on, 80

interaction design pattern, on, 93-94

persona, on, 46, 64, 67, 68, 69

work minimization, on, 91

Google Toolbar, 400

Graffiti alphabet, 269

graphic design, 226, 479. See also visual design

graphical user interface. See GUI

graphics software. See also specific application

clip art, 328, 333

color option presentation, 24, 344-345

cursor, tool charging to, 307, 308

drag-and-drop functionality, 307, 311-312

drop shadow control, 327, 425-426

eraser tool, 307

feedback, 122, 265

freeze functionality, 166

grid structure, 230-231, 426

input, graphical, 127

meta-key utilization, 312

mouse utilization, 307-308

navigation, 146, 147

polyline, 311

selection-cursor tool, 307

shaping object, 310-312

3D object manipulation, 312-316

tool arrangement, 328-329

tool modality, 307

undo functionality, 159, 163, 164

window model, 327, 328-329

word processing software, integrating with, 333

graphing software, 127

grid structure, 230-231, 313, 426

GRID.VBX , 473

grouping

monocline, 156

visual design, in, 229, 230

GUI (graphical user interface)

beginner user reliance on, 137

command line interface versus, 136

history of, 254-255, 321-326

interaction vocabulary, 255-256

speed of interaction with, 136

windows , overlapping, 323


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H

handheld device, 117-118, 492, 494-496. See also specific device

handle, object manipulation using, 310

Handspring Treo, 118, 492-493, 494

hardware interaction, responsible, 190

harm caused by product, avoiding, 96

heads-up display. See HUD

help. See also specific help feature

About box, accessing from, 458

agent, intelligent , 464

beginner user , for, 35-36, 137, 216-218, 460

dialog box Help button, 415

hardcopy, 462

index, 462

intermediate user, for, 37, 463

menu, accessing from, 373

modeless, 463

overview of, providing, 462-463

shortcut listing, providing, 217-218, 462-463

software, implementing in external, 463

Windows, 416, 458, 464

hinting, visual, 265, 276-279, 292-293, 314, 338

Holtzblatt, Karen (contextual design expert), 44-45, 61, 73, 79, 87

household appliance software, 118, 491

HTML (Hypertext Markup Language). See also Web design

installation process, avoiding using HTML-based software, 465

prototype, building using, 90

HUD (heads-up display), 122

Human Interface Style Guide (Apple), 264