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+/****************************************************************************
+**
+** Copyright (C) 2009 Nokia Corporation and/or its subsidiary(-ies).
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+
+/*!
+ \page guibooks.html
+ \title Books about GUI Design
+ \ingroup best-practices
+
+ This is not a comprehensive list -- there are many other books worth
+ buying. Here we mention just a few user interface books that don't
+ gather dust on our shelves.
+
+ \bold{\l{http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0132354160/ref=ase_trolltech/}{C++
+ GUI Programming with Qt 4, Second Edition}}
+ by Jasmin Blanchette and Mark
+ Summerfield, ISBN 0-13-235416-0. This is the official Qt book written
+ by two veteran Trolls. The first edition, which is based on Qt 4.1, is available
+ \l{http://www.qtrac.eu/C++-GUI-Programming-with-Qt-4-1st-ed.zip}{online}.
+
+ \bold{\l{http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0385267746/trolltech/t}{The Design of Everyday Things}}
+ by Donald Norman, ISBN 0-38526774-6, is one of the classics of human
+ interface design. Norman shows how badly something as simple as a
+ kitchen stove can be designed, and everyone should read it who will
+ design a dialog box, write an error message, or design just about
+ anything else humans are supposed to use.
+
+ \target fowler
+ \bold{\l{http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0070592748/trolltech/t}{GUI Design Handbook}}
+ by Susan Fowler, ISBN 0-07-059274-8, is an
+ alphabetical dictionary of widgets and other user interface elements,
+ with comprehensive coverage of each. Each chapter covers one widget
+ or other element, contains the most important recommendation from the
+ Macintosh, Windows and Motif style guides, notes about common
+ problems, comparison with other widgets that can serve some of the
+ same roles as this one, etc.
+
+ \target Design Patterns
+ \bold{\l{http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201633612/103-8144203-3273444}
+ {Design Patterns - Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software}}
+ by Gamma, Helm, Johnson, and Vlissides, ISBN 0-201-63361-2, provides
+ more information on the Model-View-Controller (MVC) paradigm, explaining
+ MVC and its sub-patterns in detail.
+
+ \bold{\l{http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201622165/trolltech/t}{Macintosh
+ Human Interface Guidelines}}, Second Edition, ISBN
+ 0-201-62216-5, is worth buying for the \e {don't}s alone. Even
+ if you're not writing Macintosh software, avoiding most of what it
+ advises against will produce more easily comprehensible software.
+ Doing what it tells you to do may also help. This book is now available
+ \link http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/mac/HIGuidelines/HIGuidelines-2.html
+ online\endlink and there is a
+ \link http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/mac/HIGOS8Guide/thig-2.html Mac
+ OS 8 addendum.\endlink
+
+ \bold{\l{http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/047159900X/trolltech/t}{The
+ Microsoft Windows User Experience}}, ISBN 1-55615-679-0,
+ is Microsoft's look and feel bible. Indispensable for everyone who
+ has customers that worship Microsoft, and it's quite good, too.
+ It is also available
+ \link http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnwue/html/welcome.asp online\endlink.
+
+ \bold{\l{http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/047159900X/trolltech/t}{The Icon Book}}
+ by William Horton, ISBN 0-471-59900-X, is perhaps the only thorough
+ coverage of icons and icon use in software. In order for icons to be
+ successful, people must be able to do four things with them: decode,
+ recognize, find and activate them. This book explains these goals
+ from scratch and how to reach them, both with single icons and icon
+ families. Some 500 examples are scattered throughout the text.
+
+
+ \section1 Buying these Books from Amazon.com
+
+ These books are made available in association with Amazon.com, our
+ favorite online bookstore. Here is more information about
+ \link http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/subst/help/shipping-policy.html/t
+ Amazon.com's shipping options\endlink and its
+ \link http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/subst/help/desk.html/t
+ customer service.\endlink When you buy a book by following one of these
+ links, Amazon.com gives about 15% of the purchase price to
+ \link http://www.amnesty.org/ Amnesty International.\endlink
+
+*/