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Designing the user interface: text, colour, images, moving images and sound
Designing the user interface: text, colour, images, moving images and sound

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This chapter is taken from: Stone, D., Jarett, C., Woodfoffe, M. and Minocha, S. (2005) User Interface Design and Evaluation, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers/Elsevier. Copyright © The Open University

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