这不是一本教你如何编程的书，但却是软件工程师不可不读的书。 本书作者Cooper被誉为“VB之父”。他针对基于电脑的产品难学、难用、难以理解的弊病，提出了软件设计应分为两部分：交互设计与编码设计。本书通过大量的商务案例，“透彻地描述了我们面临的挑战，并从方法学上提供了逃离我们自己热心营造的技术牢笼的指南。” 本书观点独特，描述生动，实例丰富，分析深刻，方法具体而且有效，是软件项目经理、

本书语言清晰明了，将设计准则与其核心的认知学和感知科学高度统一起来，使得设计准则更容易地在具体环境中得到应用。涵盖了交互计算机系统设计的方方面面，为交互系统设计提供了支持工程方法。不仅如此，这也是一本人类行为原理的入门书。

Designing a good interface isn't easy. Users demand software that is well-behaved, good-looking, and easy to use. Your clients or managers demand originality and a short time to market. Your UI technology -- Web applications, desktop software, even mobile devices - may give you the tools you need, but little guidance on how to use them well. UI designers over the years have refined the art of interface design, evolving many best practices and reusable ideas. If you learn these, and understand why the best user interfaces work so well, you too can design engaging and usable interfaces with less guesswork and more confidence. "Designing Interfaces" captures those best practices as design patterns - solutions to common design problems, tailored to the situation at hand. Each pattern contains practical advice that you can put to use immediately, plus a variety of examples illustrated in full color. You'll get recommendations, design alternatives, and warnings on when not to use them. Each chapter's introduction describes key design concepts that are often misunderstood, such as affordances, visual hierarchy, navigational distance, and the use of color. These give you a deeper understanding of why the patterns work, and how to apply them with more insight. A book can't design an interface for you - no foolproof design process is given here - but "Designing Interfaces" does give you concrete ideas that you can mix and recombine as you see fit. Experienced designers can use it as a sourcebook of ideas. Novice designers will find a roadmap to the world of interface and interaction design, with enough guidance to start using these patterns immediately.