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| 42 | /*!
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| 43 | \page guibooks.html
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| 44 | \title Books about GUI Design
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| 45 | \ingroup best-practices
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| 46 |
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| 47 | This is not a comprehensive list -- there are many other books worth
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| 48 | buying. Here we mention just a few user interface books that don't
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| 49 | gather dust on our shelves.
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| 50 |
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| 51 | \bold{\l{http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0132354160/ref=ase_trolltech/}{C++
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| 52 | GUI Programming with Qt 4, Second Edition}}
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| 53 | by Jasmin Blanchette and Mark
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| 54 | Summerfield, ISBN 0-13-235416-0. This is the official Qt book written
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| 55 | by two veteran Trolls. The first edition, which is based on Qt 4.1, is
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| 56 | \l{http://www.qtrac.eu/C++-GUI-Programming-with-Qt-4-1st-ed.zip}{available online}.
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| 57 | The second edition, based on Qt 4.3, is
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| 58 | \l{http://www.informit.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=0132354160}{also available online}.
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| 59 |
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| 60 | \bold{\l{http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0385267746/trolltech/t}{The Design of Everyday Things}}
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| 61 | by Donald Norman, ISBN 0-38526774-6, is one of the classics of human
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| 62 | interface design. Norman shows how badly something as simple as a
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| 63 | kitchen stove can be designed, and everyone should read it who will
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| 64 | design a dialog box, write an error message, or design just about
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| 65 | anything else humans are supposed to use.
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| 66 |
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| 67 | \target fowler
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| 68 | \bold{\l{http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0070592748/trolltech/t}{GUI Design Handbook}}
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| 69 | by Susan Fowler, ISBN 0-07-059274-8, is an
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| 70 | alphabetical dictionary of widgets and other user interface elements,
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| 71 | with comprehensive coverage of each. Each chapter covers one widget
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| 72 | or other element, contains the most important recommendation from the
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| 73 | Macintosh, Windows and Motif style guides, notes about common
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| 74 | problems, comparison with other widgets that can serve some of the
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| 75 | same roles as this one, etc.
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| 76 |
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| 77 | \target Design Patterns
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| 78 | \bold{\l{http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201633612/103-8144203-3273444}
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| 79 | {Design Patterns - Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software}}
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| 80 | by Gamma, Helm, Johnson, and Vlissides, ISBN 0-201-63361-2, provides
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| 81 | more information on the Model-View-Controller (MVC) paradigm, explaining
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| 82 | MVC and its sub-patterns in detail.
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