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Acknowledgements

List of illustrations

Introduction

On-screen design guidelines:

Guideline 1: Cover your book
Guideline 2: Include a table of contents
Guideline 3: Include an index
Guideline 4: Provide a search tool
Guideline 5: Treat the book as a closed environment
Guideline 6: Use hypertext to enhance navigation and facilitate cross-referencing
Guideline 7: Design typographical aspects carefully
Guideline 8: Use short pages
Guideline 9: Provide content clues
Guideline 10: Provide orientation clues
Guideline 11: Choose a readable font
Guideline 12: Use colour to create a consistent style and aid scannability
Guideline 13: Break text into short chunks
Guideline 14: Use non-text items with care
Guideline 15: Use multimedia and interactive elements to engage users
Guideline 16: Provide bookmarking and annotating functions
Guideline 17: Enable customisation

Hardware design guidelines:

Guideline 18: Employ high quality display technology
Guideline 19: Balance lightness and portability against legibility
Guideline 20: Design devices for comfort
Guideline 21: Use buttons and dials to improve page turning
Guideline 22: Make devices robust

Index

Bibliography


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