In this completely updated and revised edition of Designing with the Mind in Mind, Jeff Johnson provides you with just enough background in perceptual and cognitive psychology that user interface (UI) design guidelines make intuitive sense rather than being just a list or rules to follow.
Early UI practitioners were trained in cognitive psychology, and developed UI design rules based on it. But as the field has evolved since the first edition of this book, designers enter the field from many disciplines. Practitioners today have enough experience in UI design that they have been exposed to design rules, but it is essential that they understand the psychology behind the rules in order to effectively apply them.
In this new edition, you'll find new chapters on human choice and decision making, hand-eye coordination and attention, as well as new examples, figures, and explanations throughout.
Table of Contents
IntroductionChapter 1: Our Perception is BiasedChapter 2: Our Vision is Optimized to See StructureChapter 3: We Seek and Use Visual StructureChapter 4: Our Color Vision is LimitedChapter 5: Our Peripheral Vision is PoorChapter 6: Reading is UnnaturalChapter 7: Our Attention is Limited; Our Memory is ImperfectChapter 8: Limits on Attention Shape Our Thought and ActionChapter 9: Recognition is Easy; Recall is HardChapter 10: Learning from Experience and Performing Learned Actions are Easy; Problem Solving and Calculation are HardChapter 11: Many Factors Affect LearningChapter 12: Human Decision-Making is Rarely RationalChapter 13: Our Hand-Eye Coordination Follows LawsChapter 14: We Have Time Requirements
