[UI] UI attributes

[Brad Fuller]

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