Principles for User-Interface Design

[Judy Perry]

I especially got a kick out of reading what he had to say about
user-configurable UIs and MS Word 6 for Mac.

Basically, his take was that user-configurable UIs are a TERRIBLE idea
but, that in the case of Word 6 for Mac, the UI was already such a total
piece of crap that anything that a user could do to "screw it up" with
custom configuration could only be a step up.

;-)

Judy

On Wed, 22 Jun 2005, Jon wrote:

> If you want a real kick in the UI pants, check out the late Jef Raskin's
> book called The Humane Interface.  His ideas are radical enough that
> they cannot be implemented in most development environments, but they
> are worth considering.