Designing Highly Useable Software

Note to the Reader: Throughout this index boldfaced page numbers indicate primary discussions of a topic. Italicized page numbers indicate illustrations.

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Abort buttons, 83

About Face 2.0: The Essentials of Interaction Design, 324

accessibility of information, 109–110

ACCPAC software, 37

ACM SIGCHI group, 322

active buttons in dialog boxes, 27

Add Bookmark dialog box, 103

AddCommand method, 187

Advanced Appearance dialog box, 15, 15

alarms, car, 183

aligning labels, 78, 78

allocation, dynamic, 173–174, 315

alternatives to hourglass, 95–96

Apache server, 161, 182–183

appliances, Windows on, 258

Apply buttons, 83

ApplyFilter class, 186

arbitrary decisions by programmers

dealing with, 314–315

on program limits, 173–174

“Are you sure you want to quit?” message, 19

arranging dialog box controls, 79–83, 80

AskTog website, 323

assemblies, 178, 218–219

atomic clocks, 33

AutoCorrect feature, 257

automatic operations

file saving, 21

software testing, 274

Web interface updates, 163–166

auxiliary windows, 64

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