Appendix . Colophon

The preliminary design direction for Designing Web Usability began as a phone conversation between Indianapolis, Indiana and Ashfield, Massachusetts. The first pass of the design was created in Microsoft Word, and snail-mailed to Indianapolis.

The book was then layed out and produced using Microsoft Word, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, and QuarkXPress on a variety of systems, including a Macintosh G3 in Los Angeles, California. With the exception of the initial design pass, all files used for the final design—both text and images—were transferred via email or ftp.

All of the body text was set in the Bembo family, and all headings, sidebars, and figure captions were set in the Frutiger family. Additionally, Helvetica was ...

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