ease of coding/ease of use conflict, 8, 446
e-commerce, 138, 149, 481-482, 483
economy of form, 97
edge case design, 58, 90
Edit menu, 372
effort, commensurate, 155
ejector seat analogy, 133-134
elegance of design, 97-98
e-mail software. See also Outlook
crashing gracefully, 188
interaction design pattern, 94
message retrieval, 203, 204
posture, 103, 104
window pollution, 329-330
embedded system. See also specific device type
audio interface, 499
beginner user, designing for, 492
context, 491-492
control, 496
convergence device, 491, 492, 496
described, 489
desktop application design versus, 490, 494
expectation, 490
feedback, 118, 493, 498
hardware-software integration, 490-491
input method, 118, 490, 494, 496, 498-499
mode, 492-493, 496
navigation, 490, 493, 496, 497
platform, limiting design to specific, 494
posture, 117-118
scope, 493
screen real estate, 492, 493
state, indicating, 493
emotion, appealing to in software design, 98
Enfish Corporation, 202-203
engineer as designer, 5-6, 8, 25-26
engineering team, 487, 490, 505-506
eraser tool, 307
error dialog
audio, 437, 453-454
data entry system, 211, 437-438
eliminating unnecessary, 139-140, 186-187, 406, 439-441, 442-443
handheld device, 495
helpfulness of, 443
history of, 435
interruption caused by, 436
print job, regarding, 442
reaction to, 436-437, 440
rudeness of, 7, 436-437, 441-442
teaching potential of, 441, 443
error handling in data entry, 207-209, 211-213, 437-438
Escape key as cancel mechanism, 304-305
ethics, 95-96
ethnography defined, 46
Excel
column divider, 277
cursor hinting, 277
dialog box utilization, 125
pane utilization, 145, 326
selection, 285
splitter control, 277
user behavior, remembering, 193
excise, 135-142, 143, 412-413
expert user
designing for, 33, 37, 136-137
interviewing, 42
Explorer (Windows)
disk information display, 127, 128
drag-and-drop functionality, 293
edit-in-place functionality, 350
error message display, 170
progress dialog, 405, 406
sorting, 348
Export dialog, 176
export/import software, 110
exposure, 155
extranet design, 486
eye movement considerations in visual design, 231
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