User interface design book?

[Jordan_M]

Hey, does anyone know of a good, general-purpose book that describes how to design user interfaces?  I am looking for something that recommends button locations, color schemes, font sizes, that type of thing.  A basic manual of style for GUI design.

Thanks for your input!

     Jordan.

[DavidZ.]

Hi, i can recommand the general-purpose book "Designing Interfaces, 2nd edition from Jenifer Tidwell at O'Reilly Media". It includes also a lot of actual user interface examples to visualize the concepts. It helped me a lot in daily work.

[SimonH]

I also like Microsoft's recommendations over on MSDN, not a book per-se but some good info regardless:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa511335.aspx

[Jordan_M]

Hi David,

Thanks for the recomendation!  I really like O'reilly media, so it's great to hear that they wrote a book about interfaces.  I will look this up.

Cheers,

    Jordan.

[Jordan_M]

Thanks Simon!  Those are some great tips.

Jordan.