"Light green doesn't mean hydrology!": Toward a visual-rhetorical framework for interface design

Computers and Composition

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 39-53

  Spinuzzi, Clay ^a  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Activity theory; Genre theory; Human computer interaction; Interface design; Usability; Visual rhetoric

Indexed keywords

EID: 0010313923     PISSN: 87554615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S8755-4615(00)00047-5     Document Type: Article

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