Designing Highly Useable Software

ice cubes, misshapen, 113

icons

on buttons, 76–77, 77

deleting from desktop, 62–63

for idioms, 10

ideal programmers, 305–306

idioms, 9–11

desktop, 11–13, 12

vs. metaphors, 44

in Visual Basic, 13–16, 15–16

Ignore buttons, 83

images

on buttons, 76–77, 77

on menus, 124–125, 124

important people, 304

indexes

for online help, 289

in PDF documents, 260, 291, 292

industry standards, 259–260

information

accessibility of, 109–110

vs. data, 137–139

inheritance in OOP, 232

Inmates Are Running the Asylum, The, 324

installing software, 280

custom options in, 285–286, 286

installer operations in, 280–282

reinstalling, repairing, and removing, 284–285

standard choices in, 282–284

user information in, 287–288

InstallShield installer, 281–282

instant updates, 55–56

instrumentation, 177

Interactions and Interactions Online group, 323

interest charges on credit card statements, 144

interesting training sessions, 299

interfaces, user. See UUI (Useable User Interface)

Internet access in training sessions, 297

Internet connections in Web interface, 158–159

intuitive software, 6–8, 7

invisibility of software, 5, 10

Invisible Computer, The, 324

invisible programs, running in background, 181–183

italics toggle, 40–41