The Essential Guide To User Interface Design 3rd Edition

What does this book do? This book addresses interface and screen design from the user’s perspective, spelling out hundreds of guidelines for good design in a clear and concise manner. It blends the results of screen design research, knowledge concerning people, knowledge about the hardware and software capabilities of the interface, and my practical experience, which now spans 45 years in display-based systems.
This book’s first objective is to present the important practical guidelines for good interface and screen design. It is intended as a ready reference source for all graphical and Web systems. The guidelines reflect a mix of human behavior, science, and art, and are organized within the context of the GUI design process.
The book’s other objective is to provide materials that, when applied, will allow our users to become more productive—and more satisfied—using the interfaces we produce. A satisfied user also means, of course, a satisfied designer.
TABLE OF CONTENT
Part I : The User Interface
Chapter 1 - The Importance of the User Interface.
Chapter 2 - Characteristics of Graphical and Web User Interface.
Part II : The User Interface Design Process
Step 01 - Know Your User or Client.
Step 02 - Understand the Business Function.
Step 03 - Understand the Principles of Good Interface and Screen Design.
Step 04 - Develop System Menus and Navigation Schemes.
Step 05 - Select the Proper Kinds of Windows.
Step 06 - Select the Proper Interaction Devices.
Step 07 - Choose the Proper Screen-Based Controls.
Step 08 - Write Clear Text and Messages.
Step 09 - Provide Effective Feedback and Guidance and Assistance.
Step 10 - Provide Effective Internationalization and Accessibility.
Step 11 - Create Meaningful Graphics, Icons, and Images.
Step 12 - Choose the Proper Colors.
Step 13 - Organize and Layout Windows and Pages.
Step 14 - Test, Test, and Retest.

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Cryptography and Network Security (4th Edition)-William Stallings

In this age of viruses and hackers, of electronic eavesdropping and electronic fraud, security is paramount. This solid, up-to-date tutorial is a comprehensive treatment of cryptography and network security is ideal for self-study. Explores the basic issues to be addressed by a network security capability through a tutorial and survey of cryptography and network security technology. Examines the practice of network security via practical applications that have been implemented and are in use today. Provides a simplified AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) that enables readers to grasp the essentials of AES more easily. Features block cipher modes of operation, including the CMAC mode for authentication and the CCM mode for authenticated encryption. Includes an expanded, updated treatment of intruders and malicious software. A useful reference for system engineers, programmers, system managers, network managers, product marketing personnel, and system support specialists.

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The Lost Symbol

The Lost Symbol is the eagerly anticipated follow-up to The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown's No. 1 international phenomenon with 81 million copies in print worldwide and the UK's biggest selling paperback novel of all time, and it will once again feature Dan Brown's unforgettable protagonist, Robert Langdon. 

What was lost will be found...

Washington DC: Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned at the last minute to deliver an evening lecture in the Capitol Building. Within moments of his arrival, however, a disturbing object - gruesomely encoded with five symbols - is discovered at the epicentre of the Rotunda. It is, he recognises, an ancient invitation, meant to beckon its recipient towards a long-lost world of hidden esoteric wisdom.

When Langdon's revered mentor, Peter Solomon - philanthropist and prominent mason - is brutally kidnapped, Langdon realises that his only hope of saving his friend's life is to accept this mysterious summons and follow wherever it leads him.

Langdon finds himself quickly swept behind the façade of America's most powerful city into the unseen chambers, temples and tunnels which exist there. All that was familiar is transformed into a shadowy, clandestine world of an artfully concealed past in which Masonic secrets and never before seen revelations seem to be leading him to a single impossible and inconceivable truth.

A brilliantly composed tapestry of veiled histories, arcane icons and enigmatic codes, The Lost Symbol is an intelligent, lightning paced thriller that offers surprises at every turn. For, as Robert Langdon will discover, there is nothing more extraordinary or shocking than the secret that hides in plain sight… 

"This novel has been a strange and wonderful journey", says Dan Brown himself. "Weaving five years of research into the story's 12-hour timeframe was an exhilarating challenge. Robert Langdon's life clearly moves a lot faster than mine".

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