Authors:
Jeff Johnson
Introduction In considering what makes a user interface good or bad, it is important not to underestimate the importance of text. One of the great ironies of graphical user interfaces is that they aren't usually very graphical. The typical GUI consists mainly of textual settings displayed on panels. Most of the values of the settings are textual (even though they may be set via menus or radiobuttons). Most of the setting labels are also textual. Error and warning messages are mainly textual (perhaps augmented by a color and a graphical symbol to indicate the importance of the message). Graphical…
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