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Sometimes it seems that no one can agree what user interface design really is. Is it the painstaking process an artist goes through to create shaded icons that light up when the mouse approaches? Is it the hours spent in a usability lab subjecting users to a complicated new application? Is it the series of decisions that determine how to model information using common controls and metaphors?
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MacDonald, M. (2002). Creating Usable Interfaces. In: User Interfaces in VB .NET: Windows Forms and Custom Controls. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-0844-0_1
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