| The first edition of this book was written in 1998 and 1999. The common application platforms then were MacOS9, Windows98, Windows NT, early versions of Java Swing, and Unix or Linux with CDE/Motif. Although many of the bloopers covered in the first edition are as common now as they were in the late 1990s, the book was starting to look out of date because the blooper examples were all from the last century. To look current, the book needed new examples.
A second reason for a new edition was that some bloopers that were common in 1999 have become less common, and new common bloopers have taken their place. A higher proportion of new applications these days are Web based, so it became important to discuss bloopers that are common in Web applications.
A third motivation for an update was that I have developed better ways to explain some of the bloopers and how to avoid them. I also have a clearer understanding of the basic UI design principles underlying the bloopers.
A final reason for revising the book is that readers of the first edition have provided a lot a feedback about what they liked and didn’t like, in review articles published in magazines, comments posted in online discussion groups and on the book’s pages at online booksellers, and e-mail sent to me and to the publisher. I and the publisher decided it was time to build on the first edition’s strengths and correct some of its weaknesses (see Appendix B: How this book was usability tested). |
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