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GUI Design

Name: Anonymous 2008-08-11 19:29

Can anyone recommend any good books/blogs/websites on the subject of GUI design and usability, I'm getting to the stage now when I'm finding it hard to present all the necessary options to the user in a clear and concise way.

Name: Anonymous 2008-08-14 16:48

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No, then you're still just adding excessive configuration options rather than doing you job as a designer.
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You should look at Plan 9's UI (which you can run on Linux now http://swtch.com/9vx/ ), especially the Acme text editor, from which I get the "every word is a command" idea and read Jef Raskin's The Humane Interface (which I just found in ebook form http://www.mediafire.com/?su4aj57dxlz (it's funny how many of the things in this book echo what I was already thinking)). Acme, and to a lesser degree the rest of Plan 9, is the most "different but awesome" UI I know of, while THI lays out Raskin's best idea for a UI, with justification for everything (some of which I don't agree with, but it's all good to think about).

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