Developer To Designer GUI Design for the Busy Developer

In a fantasy world, you design and build the core of your application, the partsthat do all the heavy lifting. And the graphical user interface? Well,that's the domain of the hot-shot sitting one cube over, who went to schoolto learn how to give users sensible and effective control over the functionalityyou construct. In the real world, there is no hot-shot sitting one cubeover, and you have to build the GUI yourself. Developer to Designer:GUI Design for the Busy Developer is a unique resource designed to help youand other experienced developers build GUIs for your programs that are simple tolearn, easy to use, and painless to maintain, even though you're not userinterface experts. Inside, the focus is on the essentials of Windows and web GUIdesign: simple ideas that require modest programming effort but provide enormouspayoffs in terms of user success and satisfaction. You'll learn allabout: Arranging text and controls in a sensibleorder Understanding and making the most of the behavior ofwindows Improving the effectiveness of dialog boxes Using advancedcontrols such as TreeViews, ListViews, and tabs Designing menus andtoolbars Providing users with sensible customizationoptions Understanding how the rules change when designing for theWeb Handling page layout and navigation on the Web Anticipating changesin the next version of Windows Throughout, author Mike Gunderloy isdoggedly realistic. Like in his previous book, Coder toDeveloper: Tools and Strategies for Delivering Your Software, Mikedescribes how things actually work and prescribes ways for you to achievemeaningful results without staging a revolution. This is hard-won, practicalknowledge from a veteran developer whose advice, examples, and overall visionwill change the way you think and work.Gunderloy, Mike is the author of 'Developer To Designer GUI Design for the Busy Developer', published 2004 under ISBN 9780782143614 and ISBN 078214361X.