About Face 2.0(c) The Essentials of Interaction Design

e-commerce, 138, 149, 481-482, 483

economy of form, 97

edge case design, 58, 90

Edit menu, 372

effort, commensurate, 155

ejector seat analogy, 133-134

elegance of design, 97-98

e-mail software. See also Outlook

crashing gracefully, 188

interaction design pattern, 94

message retrieval, 203, 204

posture, 103, 104

window pollution, 329-330

embedded system. See also specific device type

audio interface, 499

beginner user, designing for, 492

context, 491-492

control, 496

convergence device, 491, 492, 496

described, 489

desktop application design versus, 490, 494

expectation, 490

feedback, 118, 493, 498

hardware-software integration, 490-491

input method, 118, 490, 494, 496, 498-499

mode, 492-493, 496

navigation, 490, 493, 496, 497

platform, limiting design to specific, 494

posture, 117-118

scope, 493

screen real estate, 492, 493

state, indicating, 493

emotion, appealing to in software design, 98

Enfish Corporation, 202-203

engineer as designer, 5-6, 8, 25-26

engineering team, 487, 490, 505-506

eraser tool, 307

error dialog

audio, 437, 453-454

data entry system, 211, 437-438

eliminating unnecessary, 139-140, 186-187, 406, 439-441, 442-443

handheld device, 495

helpfulness of, 443

history of, 435

interruption caused by, 436

print job, regarding, 442

reaction to, 436-437, 440

rudeness of, 7, 436-437, 441-442

teaching potential of, 441, 443

error handling in data entry, 207-209, 211-213, 437-438

Escape key as cancel mechanism, 304-305

ethics, 95-96

ethnography defined, 46

Excel

column divider, 277

cursor hinting, 277

dialog box utilization, 125

pane utilization, 145, 326

selection, 285

splitter control, 277

user behavior, remembering, 193

excise, 135-142, 143, 412-413

expert user

designing for, 33, 37, 136-137

interviewing, 42

Explorer (Windows)

disk information display, 127, 128

drag-and-drop functionality, 293

edit-in-place functionality, 350

error message display, 170

progress dialog, 405, 406

sorting, 348

Export dialog, 176

export/import software, 110

exposure, 155

extranet design, 486

eye movement considerations in visual design, 231