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Author: Everett N McKay (is principal of UX Design Edge, a user experience design training and consulting firm specializing in helping non-designers, based in St. Albans, Vermont.)
Publisher: Elsevier Science & Technology
Imprint: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers In
Dimensions:
Width: 19.10cm
, Height: 2.30cm
, Length: 23.50cm
Weight: 0.770kg
ISBN: 9780123969804
ISBN 10: 0123969808
Pages: 378
Publication Date: 05 August 2013
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
The best teammate a designer can have is a communication specialist to look over your shoulder. Having Everett's book is the next best thing to having him on your team. -Bert Keely, Architect of Windows Pen and Touch McKay practices what he preaches - UI is Communication is relevant, readable, entertaining, and chock full of useful examples. -Carolyn Snyder, Snyder Consulting
Here [McKay] offers a guide to designing user interfaces by drawing on principles and common-sense insight about communication. There are no prerequisites, he says, no assumptions about the reader's field or level of experience. --Reference & Research Book News, October 2013 The best teammate a designer can have is a communication specialist to look over your shoulder. Having Everett's book is the next best thing to having him on your team. --Bert Keely, Architect of Windows Pen and Touch McKay practices what he preaches - UI is Communication is relevant, readable, entertaining, and chock full of useful examples. --Carolyn Snyder, Snyder Consulting
Here [McKay] offers a guide to designing user interfaces by drawing on principles and common-sense insight about communication. There are no prerequisites, he says, no assumptions about the reader's field or level of experience. --Reference and Research Book News, October 2013 The best teammate a designer can have is a communication specialist to look over your shoulder. Having Everett's book is the next best thing to having him on your team. --Bert Keely, Architect of Windows Pen and Touch McKay practices what he preaches - UI is Communication is relevant, readable, entertaining, and chock full of useful examples. --Carolyn Snyder, Snyder Consulting
Author Information
Everett McKay is Principal of UX Design Edge (uxdesignedge.com), a user experience design training and consulting company for mobile, web, and desktop applications based in Vermont. Everett’s specialty is UX design training for software professionals who aren’t experienced designers through onsite and public courses and workshops. He also runs AskAUXExpert.com, a web-based UX design consulting service.Previously, Everett was a Senior Program Manager at Microsoft Corporation on the Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Windows Server teams. While there, he was responsible for the writing of and consulting on the Windows User Experience Interaction Guidelines. While at Microsoft, he was also responsible for teaching their in-house introductory UI design course. Before joining Microsoft, Everett was a programmer, specializing in designing and developing Windows and Macintosh user interfaces. He holds master’s and bachelor’s degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT.
