Designing Object-Oriented User Interfaces

by Dave Collins

Collins presents a principled approach to designing user interfaces for systems built on modern hardware and software platforms. In the text, Collins defines object-oriented user interface, presents a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080535350X
• ISBN13: 9780805353501
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Addison Wesley Publishing Company
• Length: 612 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.3" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Essential reading for all developing computer applications

Collins cuts right to the quick on this often misunderstood topic. Project manager thru programmer will profit from having this on their desk. It you remember COBOL, FORTRAN and PL/1, then this sbook is syour key to understanding the "new age" of object orientness. Incredibly concise, crystal clear discussions of all the important issues.

One of the rare books that addresses OO style GUI design

This excellent book is one of a mere few books that thoroughly and competently addresses object-oriented (OO) style of graphical user interface (GUI) design. Note that OO GUI *style* is entirely independent of whether the GUI is implemented with OO technology. A strength of this book is its comprehensibility by programmers, in addition to GUI designers.Here are two other essential ones: Design Guide for Multiplatform Graphical User Interfaces (LP R13, Issue 3, by McFarland & Dayton, 1995, Piscataway, NJ: Bellcore), and Object-Oriented Interface Design: IBM Common User Access guidelines (by IBM, Carmel, IN: Que Corp.)Here's a merely fair quality but essential one: The Windows guidelines for software design. (by Microsoft, 1995, Redmond, WA: Microsoft Press).

A must have for serious Object-Oriented programming

This book explains the subtle nuances and fine art of designing truly object-oriented user interfaces in easily comprehensible terms. Dave Collins is an OO industry guru and his book is a significant contribution of pragmatic advice on the subject.