Index_C

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Calculator utility (Windows), 111

calendar software, 29-31

call-distribution software, 13

camera in 3D modeling software, 315-316

canceling operation in progress, 190, 304-305, 306, 405-406, 425

Carroll, John M. (Making Use), 75-76

cellular telephone, 117, 492

change, implementing, 179

check box control, 340-341, 347

children, designing for, 237

choice

decision-set reduction, 196-197

questioning user versus offering, 131-133, 188, 463

remembering, 193-194

Civilization game, 451-452

clip art, 328, 333

Close dialog, 169

clue box control, 356-357

clutter, avoiding, 144, 227-228

coherence, 97-98, 193-194, 198

color

attention, attracting using, 242

blindness, 243, 286

branding, matching to, 237

chromostereopsis, 243

complementary, 243

contrast, 229, 243

culture, considerations of, 234, 256

dialog, of, 397

distinguishing element using, 355

graphics software, color option presentation in, 24, 344-345

hardware considerations, 287

kiosk software, 497

layering perception, effect on, 229

misusing, 227, 243

navigation aid, as, 242

personalizing, 219

relationship, indicating using, 242

selection, of, 286, 287-288

sovereign posture software, 105

text, of, 242

title bar, 309

transient posture software, 109

visual hinting, using in, 314

visual structure, accentuating using, 230

Web design, 487

combobox control, 350-351, 358, 386, 429

combutcon control, 343-345

command

dangerous, 8, 133-134, 216

object-verb order, 281-282

prefix character, differentiating from data using, 366

working set, 216

command line interface, 136-137, 363

common sense, building into software, 185

competitor software, reviewing existing, 44

CompuServe Navigator, 329-330, 335, 411

computer literacy, assumption of, 7

concretization, design problem solving by, 75

configuration

dialog, 130-131

function, separating from, 403

installation versus, 473-474

object, of persistent, 133, 218-219

personalization, 218-219

confirmation dialog, 139-140, 414, 447-450

conflict between ease of coding and ease of use, 8, 446

connection line, drawing between objects, 316-317

conscientiousness, building into software, 186

consideration for user, building into software, 7, 183-190, 501

Constantine, Larry (Software for Use), 34

contact list, 29

context

attribute, context-specific, 91

embedded system, 491-492

ethnographic interview, 44-45

goal, meeting in, 13

idiom dependence on, 330

initial, 84

inquiry, contextual, 44-45

need, contextual, 83

scenario, constructing in, 80-82, 84

user, of, 46-47

Web design, 485-486

Contextual Design (Beyer and Holtzblatt), 44, 73

control. See also specific control

bounding, 209, 352-355, 357, 440

click-and-drag manipulation, 303-304, 306

data entry control, 209, 351-359

disabling inapplicable, 386, 399

display control, 359-362

drop-down, 343-344, 350, 358

earmarking, 346-347

eliminating unnecessary, 144, 148, 337-338

embedded system, 496

extraction control, 426-429

function, mapping to, 152-154

imperative, 338-340

manipulation, 303-308, 425-426

placement, 8, 106, 121, 133-134

screen real estate, 340, 341, 342, 343

selection control offering list of choices, 345-346, 347-350

selection control offering multiple discrete choices, 346-347

selection control offering mutually exclusive choices, 342-345, 350

selection control offering single selection, 340-342, 350-351

state, indicating using, 341, 342

text control, 354-360

validation control, 354-356, 426

visual design, 355, 429-432

Control panel (Windows), 112

Cooper, Alan (The Inmates are Running The Asylum), 56

CP/M operating system, 363

crashing gracefully, 188, 404, 410

Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly (Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience), 119

culture, considerations of, 231, 234, 247, 249, 256

cursor

hinting, 265, 276-279, 292, 293

selection-cursor tool, 307

tool charging to, 307, 308

customer

goal, 65

persona, 73