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Characteristics Of Successful User Interfaces
- quoderat 17y agoAnyone who cites any part of Office 2007 as in any way an example of good or effective design has lost my vote of confidence. I am forced to use it at work, have been using it for nearly two years, and it still takes me 10 or 20 times as long (no exaggeration) to get something done in that as it did in Office 2003 or 2000. Amazingly bad UI.
- kailashbadu 17y agoThe author is citing Office 2007 as an example of how consistency across similar applications is a good thing. Word, Excel, and Powerpoint have consistent interfaces which is a good thing. How usable those interfaces are, on the other hand, is a different question altogether.
- blogimus 17y agoBen Shneiderman's "Eight Golden Rules of Interface Design" http://faculty.washington.edu/jtenenbg/courses/360/f04/sessions/schneidermanGoldenRules.html http://faculty.washington.edu/jtenenbg/courses/360/f04/sessi...
- joe_the_user 17y agoThanks for the link. Quite good, far more than the blog post. Your link gives concrete, nonobvious clues - like feedback.
- blogimus 17y agoWe used Shneiderman's "Designing the User Interface" book (3rd Ed) back in Human Computer Interaction class. I kept the book and still use it. The link was a lucky find because the usability post list looked a tiny bit familiar.
- joe_the_user 17y agoI wonder if these rules are worse than useless. Everyone agrees that "clear" is better than "not-clear", "concise" is better than not concise, etc. But not only does this blog not give a clear, concise description of how to implement these qualities. It is doesn't even give a clear, unambiguous way to determine whether a given interface has these qualities. He could have been more concise and just as clear if he'd said "make it rock, dude!"