Designing Highly Useable Software

e-mail

saving, 21

synchronizing, 166–167

early adopters, 250

ease and usability vs. features, 257–258

efficiency, 105–106

information accessibility for, 109–110

reinventing the wheel, 106–109

electronic music synthesizers, 42

ellipses (...) on menus, 122, 152

embedding browsers, 156–158

Emotional Design, 324

end users, OOP for, 239–241

Enter key in dialog boxes, 27

environment variables, 225

Esc key

in dialog boxes, 27

in drag and drop systems, 128

European Union Usability Net website, 324

exception handling, 199–200, 200

in C++

for constructors and destructors, 203–205

in function headers, 205–207

cleaning up resources, 200–203

excise tasks, 112

exiting programs, 19, 198

extensions, hiding, 16–17, 17

Extra Large Fonts setting, 89