Coordinating User Interfaces for Consistency (Interactive by Jakob Nielsen

In the years on the grounds that Jakob Nielsen's vintage assortment on interface consistency first seemed, a lot has replaced, and lots more and plenty has stayed a similar. at the one hand, there is been exponential progress within the possibilities for following or brushing aside the foundations of interface consistency-more desktops, extra purposes, extra clients, and naturally the tremendous expanse of the net. at the different, there are the rules themselves, as power and as important as ever.

In those contributed chapters, you will find information on many equipment for looking and imposing consistency, in addition to bottom-line analyses of its advantages and a few warnings approximately its attainable risks. such a lot of what you are going to research applies both to and software program improvement, and it all holds genuine merits for either your company and your users.

• Begins with a brand new preface by way of the collection's exceptional editor
• Details a number of equipment for reaching interface consistency, together with principal keep watch over, consumer definitions, exemplary purposes, shared code, and version analysis
• Presents a cost-benefits research of organizational efforts to advertise and accomplish consistency
• Examines and appraises the size of consistency-consistency inside of an software, throughout a relatives of purposes, and beyond
• Makes the case for a few unforeseen advantages of interface consistency whereas aiding you steer clear of the hazards it could possibly occasionally entail
• Considers the consistency of interface components except monitor design
• Includes case reviews of significant companies that experience instituted courses to make sure the consistency in their products