GUI bloopers 2.0: Common user interface design don'ts and dos

GUI Bloopers 2.0: Common User Interface Design Don'ts and Dos

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1-406

  Johnson, Jeff ^a  

^a BBS PowerMod   (United States)

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