 | | From: | Matt Gregory | | Subject: | Usability/UI design resources? | | Date: | Sun, 23 Jan 2005 03:58:00 GMT |
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 | Can anyone point me to a newsgroup or a web forum or something
that has some good discussions about software usability and UI
design?
Thanks!
Matt Gregory
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| | From: | Phlip | | Subject: | Re: Usability/UI design resources? | | Date: | Sun, 23 Jan 2005 04:35:00 GMT |
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| Matt Gregory wrote:
> Can anyone point me to a newsgroup or a web forum or something
> that has some good discussions about software usability and UI
> design?
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agile-usability/
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Phlip
http://industrialxp.org/community/bin/view/Main/TestFirstUserInterfaces
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| | From: | Matt Gregory | | Subject: | Re: Usability/UI design resources? | | Date: | Sun, 23 Jan 2005 06:31:02 GMT |
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| Phlip wrote:
> Matt Gregory wrote:
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>>Can anyone point me to a newsgroup or a web forum or something
>>that has some good discussions about software usability and UI
>>design?
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> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agile-usability/
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Thanks, Phlip! I'll give it a shot.
Matt Gregory
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| | From: | Scott McPhillips [MVP] | | Subject: | Re: Usability/UI design resources? | | Date: | Sun, 23 Jan 2005 09:30:25 -0500 |
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| Matt Gregory wrote:
> Can anyone point me to a newsgroup or a web forum or something
> that has some good discussions about software usability and UI
> design?
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> Thanks!
> Matt Gregory
Examples of what NOT to do...from the "Interface Hall of Shame"
http://digilander.libero.it/chiediloapippo/Engineering/iarchitect/tabs.htm
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Scott McPhillips [VC++ MVP]
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| | From: | CBFalconer | | Subject: | Re: Usability/UI design resources? | | Date: | Sun, 23 Jan 2005 20:09:44 GMT |
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| "Scott McPhillips [MVP]" wrote:
> Matt Gregory wrote:
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>> Can anyone point me to a newsgroup or a web forum or something
>> that has some good discussions about software usability and UI
>> design?
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> Examples of what NOT to do...from the "Interface Hall of Shame"
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> http://digilander.libero.it/chiediloapippo/Engineering/iarchitect/tabs.htm
Pretty good. But, pray tell, why is a firm from the Carolinas
publishing on a system from Italy? Is this the remains of a
defunct organization?
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| | From: | Otto Wyss | | Subject: | Re: Usability/UI design resources? | | Date: | Sun, 23 Jan 2005 16:05:40 +0100 |
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| Scott McPhillips [MVP] wrote:
> Matt Gregory wrote:
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> > Can anyone point me to a newsgroup or a web forum or something
> > that has some good discussions about software usability and UI
> > design?
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Or look at wxGuide for application design "http://wxguide.sf.net".
O. Wyss
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Development of frame buffer drivers: http://linux-fbdev.sf.net
Sample code snippets for wxWidgets: http://wxcode.sf.net
How to build well-designed applications: http://wxguide.sf.net
Desktop with a consistent look and feel: http://wyodesktop.sf.net
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| | From: | Matt Gregory | | Subject: | Re: Usability/UI design resources? | | Date: | Mon, 24 Jan 2005 02:18:23 GMT |
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| Otto Wyss wrote:
> Or look at wxGuide for application design "http://wxguide.sf.net".
Yeah, it's alright. If someone is looking for the basics, though,
they would be better off reading the user interface guidelines for
the operating system they are targetting.
Like here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnwue/html/welcome.asp
and here:
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/mac/HIGuidelines/HIGuidelines-2.html
The advantage with these, particularly with Apple's, is that
they weren't written by programmers, which is about the last
person you'd want to ask when designing a user interface!
Sad, but true. Just look at the first section of tutorial on
the wxguide. It talks about how to size the window for a
particular type of application, using a particular type of
class library. Hate to break it to you, but that's not the
type of thing that is useful for someone designing a user
interface. You're approaching the subject as if it were a
programming problem, but it's a psychological problem.
Matt Gregory
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| | From: | Matt Gregory | | Subject: | Re: Usability/UI design resources? | | Date: | Mon, 24 Jan 2005 01:37:51 GMT |
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| Scott McPhillips [MVP] wrote:
> http://digilander.libero.it/chiediloapippo/Engineering/iarchitect/tabs.htm
Yeah, I know about that one - classic site! I'm glad it still
exists. Though, that link should probably be:
http://digilander.libero.it/chiediloapippo/Engineering/iarchitect/index-1.htm
I mean, c'mon! Let's exercise some usability here! ;-)
Matt Gregory
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