[UI] UI attributes

Adrin adrin at ic.cz
Thu Sep 13 08:11:25 UTC 2007


Brad Fuller napsal(a):
> On Wed September 12 2007, Adrin wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> I em interested in UI and GUI and new ways of presenting and
>> manipulating data. I like to make my own GUI or participate in the
>> existing ones. But first of all – Is there any study or theory what the
>> UI exactly is, what needs UI to satisfy and what is the best ergonomic
>> UI for most people?
>>     
>
> Just like any discipline, there are many points of view, theories and hacks.
>
> It's quite a vast subject from a rather old (in computer years) textbook "The 
> Psychology of Human–Computer Interaction" to Donald Norman's work (Design of 
> Everyday Things, see his other books: http://www.jnd.org/books.html#641),  
> Sketchpad (Alan Kay likes to use this as a demo: 
> http://www.jnd.org/books.html#641) Jef Raskin 
> (http://jef.raskincenter.org/home/index.html) has a book focused more toward 
> computers.
>
> You might check out Jakob Nielsen's site:
> http://www.useit.com/papers/heuristic/heuristic_list.html
>
> He and Donald Norman have a site:
> http://www.nngroup.com/
>
> More:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human-computer_interaction
>
> I want to go through your list again and try to understand it. Thanks for 
> sending it and contributing!
>
> brad
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>   

Thank you very much for your reply and links – very interesting, I 
appreciate that.


Adam


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