J. Blustein

Lewis & Reiman's
Task-Centered User Interface Design

The book is copyright ©1993, 1994 by Clayton Lewis & John Reiman and is not free. Please read the shareware notice.

Three versions of the book are available:

1. The original text-only version at ftp.cs.colorado.edu;
2. An amended version (with an index, cross-references, etc.) at this site
   • in PDF (formatted for American letter-sized paper),
   • PDF compressed with gzip (you can get gzip from the gzip homepage), or
   • as LaTeX source files (by request only);
3. The original text in HTML at hcibib.org.

Below are details about the versions.

Amended Version

The amended version of Clayton Lewis & John Reiman's book Task-Centered User Interface Design: A practical introduction includes:

• an index,
• numerous cross-references,
• better formatting than the original text,
• complete tables of contents, examples, hypertopics, and tables,
• hypertext links to page numbers in the above, and
• cover pages suitable for use in binding.

At this website

notice.txt

Important Shareware Notice

approx. two Kb

PDF version

Covers (for use when binding book)

covers-tcuid.pdf

approx. 44 Kb

covers-tcuid.pdf.gz

as above but compressed with gzip

approx. 40 Kb

The book itself

tcuid.pdf

approx. 1.0 Mb

formatted for American letter-size paper

tcuid.pdf.gz

as above but compressed with gzip

approx. 728 Kb

readme.html

this file

TCUID-LaTeX.tar.gz

all of the source files (in LaTeX format)

available by request only

LaTeX files:

• two book versions (March 2004 and Feb. 2008) and
• two cover versions (differing only by date)
• revised assignments 0.1, 4.3, and 5.1

approx. 276 Kb

Revised Exercises in PDF

1. Revised Exercise 0.1

   Looking for the Interface

2. Revised Exercise 4.3

   Heuristic Analysis

3. Revised Exercise 5.1

   Thinking Aloud

Original Text Versions

Text version of TCUID

at ftp.cs.colorado.edu

HTML version of TCUID

at hcibib.org