Principles for User-Interface Design

[Dennis Brown]

I know what you mean.  I keep trying to use a PC (I have one).  I  
turn it on every year and try to run some applications.  They run.  I  
try to use it in a normal way, but by the end of the day, I unplug it  
again with a sigh of relief, and push it under the table next to my  
Mac.  I have not thrown it out, because I keep having the feeling  
that someday I will want to run a special program that is not cross  
platform.  That is why I plug it in again every so often, but then I  
decide it is just not worth the aggravation and I find another way of  
solving my problem.  Perhaps write it in Rev.

Yes, the tool does make a difference...

Dennis

On Jun 22, 2005, at 6:24 PM, Marielle Lange wrote:

>> ...and not just user-configurable UIs, but also the... um... I forget
>> what Microsoft calls it, but it's the thing where the menus have the
>> most recently-used items rearranged on the fly by default.
>>
>
>
>> Kids - don't try this at home. These are clowns^H^H^H^HMicrosoft
>> engineers at work designing your user experience.
>>
>
> <off_topic>
> Apologizes in advance to all PC users on this list. I had to use a  
> PC to help a
> student set up an experiment this week... I had a very hard time  
> keeping up
> from swearing. You know, all these little things that get you  
> exclaim, "he
> that's clever" on one platform and "bloody hell, stop taking all  
> these stupid
> decisions". (I let you guess which comment applies to which platform)
>
> Let's not start some arguing. Simple question: how many of you  
> swear at your
> computer. What platform are you using? If you happen to use different
> platforms, how often do you swear when using each one of them
>
> In case you do it often, why not introduce a bit of diversity and  
> try "'Wretch',
> 'Beast', 'Swine', 'Jellyfish', 'Ectoplasm', 'Freshwater swab',  
> 'Bashi-bazouk',
> 'Caterpillar', 'Baboon', 'Parasite', 'Disgraceful', 'Treason',  
> 'Twister',
> 'Heretic', 'Technocrat', 'Hydrocarbon', 'Anthracite', 'Coconut',  
> 'Fuzzy-wuzzy',
> 'Anthropithecus', 'Black bird', 'Nincompoop', 'Anacoluthon',  
> 'Invertebrate',
> 'Liquorice' (from: http://www.angelfire.com/super2/animorphs/ 
> insult.html ;-) ).
> </off_topic>
>
>
> <on_topic>
> The rev-ed wiki is at: <http://revolution.lexicall.org/wiki/>
>
> There is some information (work in progress, mostly parts of John  
> Mathewson's
> MSc thesis) about user-interface elements and guidelines, along  
> with a few
> links
> <http://revolution.lexicall.org/wiki/tiki-index.php? 
> page=ResourcesInterfaceNavigation>.
> Really, feel free to update and improve the content.
>
> Links to Both apple and microsoft guidelines can be found there,  
> along with the
> ones of other platforms and environments.
>
> For a quick read, I recommend
> <http://www.useit.com/papers/heuristic/heuristic_list.html>
> Ten Usability Heuristics by Jakob Nielsen.
> </on_topic>
>
> Cheers,
> Marielle
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