How important is user interface design? A poorly executed interface can frustrate users—and cost your organization time and money—while an effective design can improve productivity by helping users get their work done. So what makes good interfaces good and bad interfaces bad? Which design choices can improve the user’s experience with a program? Emphasizing practical results over theory, this concise, Windows-focused handbook distills industry best practices and the author’s 25 years of software development expertise into straightforward and effective methods you can apply right now to create more usable—user-driven—software. Coverage includes: