| Description |
xxix, 559 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Wiley technical communication library |
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Wiley technical communication library.
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| Contents |
1. What Is Document Design? -- 2. Evolution of the Field: Contextual Dynamics -- 3. How Documents Engage Readers' Thinking and Feeling -- 4. The Impact of Poor Design: Thinking about Ourselves as Users of Texts and Technology -- 5. Seeing the Text: The Role of Typography and Space -- 6. The Interplay of Words and Pictures -- 7. What Document Designers Can Learn from Readers -- App. A. Publications of Interest to Document Designers -- App. B. Common Typographic Symbols -- App. C. Guidelines for Designing Online Displays |
| Summary |
This book is for writers and graphic designers who create the many types of documents people use every day at home or school, in business or government. From high-tech instruction manuals and textbooks to health communications and information graphics, to online information and World Wide Web pages, this book offers one of the first research-based portraits of what readers need from documents and of how document designers can take those needs into account |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [519]-539) and index |
| Subject |
English language -- Rhetoric.
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Graphic arts.
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Graphic design (Typography)
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Layout (Printing)
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Reading, Psychology of.
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Technical writing.
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| LC no. |
94002009 |
| ISBN |
0471306363 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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