The much-anticipated fifth edition of Designing the User Interface provides a comprehensive, authoritative introduction to the dynamic field of human-computer interaction (HCI). Students and professionals learn practical principles and guidelines needed to develop high quality interface designs—ones that users can understand, predict, and control. It covers theoretical foundations, and design processes such as expert reviews and usability testing. Numerous examples of direct manipulation, menu selection, and form fill-in give readers an understanding of excellence in design The new edition provides updates on current HCI topics with balanced emphasis on mobile devices, Web, and desktop platforms. It addresses the profound changes brought by user-generated content of text, photo, music, and video and the raised expectations for compelling user experiences.

More than eighty entries in this fascinating book examine America's most underhanded plots-and the dishonest men and women who created and perpetrated them. Detailed and captivating coverage includes schemes and frauds such as accident faking, cash machine rackets, the Gold Brick swindle, Lord Gordon-Gordon, Charles Ponzi, the Spanish Prisoner, and much more.

Entries inlcude:
Albert Adams
Rev. Jim Bakker
The Black Sox Scandal
Ivan Boesky
Check Passing
The Great Diamond Hoax
Charles Keating
Medical Quackery
The New York Lottery Swindle
Maria Monk
Pyramid Schemes
Watered Stock.

The second of three books published by the Center for Environmental Structure to provide a "working alternative to our present ideas about architecture, building, and planning,"A Pattern Languageoffers a practical language for building and planning based on natural considerations. The reader is given an overview of some 250 patterns that are the units of this language, each consisting of a design problem, discussion, illustration, and solution. By understanding recurrent design problems in our environment, readers can identify extant patterns in their own design projects and use these patterns to create a language of their own. Extraordinarily thorough, coherent, and accessible, this book has become a bible for homebuilders, contractors, and developers who care about creating healthy, high-level design.